Little Crane

A calm crane game for young children

Behind every window of the crane house waits a different crane. Children up to about 5 lift, build, sort, paint and dive – and Haki, the cheerful crane hook, joins in everywhere. For iPhone and iPad.

  • No ads
  • No in-app purchases
  • Works offline
  • No data collected
  • English and German
The crane house with four windows: foundry, pairs crane, paint crane and pirate crane, with the red front door in the middle.

A crane behind every window

Tap a window and the camera flies inside. Nothing can go wrong, and there is always something to do.

The building site: the yellow tower crane builds a brick house, with builders and a pile of sand.

Building site

Lift pieces and build a whole street, house by house. Tap a finished house to dive inside and hear a fairy tale.

The scrapyard with a magnet crane, piles of scrap and a green shredder.

Scrapyard

The magnet crane sorts old things and says what it is holding. Some of them go into the shredder.

Kurt the crocodile lies in the dentist chair while Haki brushes his teeth.

Dentist crane

Kurt the crocodile gets his teeth brushed, then his mouth is rinsed with water from the cup.

The alphabet crane lifts a letter onto a truck, next to a dragonfly.

Alphabet crane

Every letter comes with an animal and its sound.

The workshop: a vehicle frame is being assembled, with tools and a blueprint on the wall.

Workshop

Build cars, tractors and other vehicles from parts – then drive off.

The foundry with a glowing furnace, workers and a press.

Foundry

Melt metal, pour it into moulds and drive it away by truck.

The pairs crane: stacked wooden crates with lids, next to a seahorse.

Pairs crane

Stack matching crates on top of each other – a memory game to lift. Later with letters too, plus a tricky expert mode for parents.

The paint crane: Haki paints a blue K on the canvas with a brush.

Paint crane

Trace warm-up strokes and letters with a brush – stroke by stroke in the right order, just like with a pencil.

The pirate ship with a treasure chest and a bin, Haki lifts a trophy out of the sea, clownfish below.

Pirate crane

Dive for treasure from the pirate ship, fish rubbish out of the sea and steer clear of the jellyfish.

Twelve fairy tales to watch and join in

Every fairy tale is lovingly narrated and acted out. Along the way the child can help: tap the lamp, beat the drum, poke the cloud.

“Walter and the Light in the Storm” – a whole fairy tale from the game, just under two minutes.
  • Walter and the Light in the Storm
  • Crumble, the Gingerbread Man
  • Mimi and the Sleepy Wind
  • Paul and the Missing Muffins
  • Leni Flies to the Moon
  • Mila Flies with the Balloon House
  • Pips and the Northern Lights
  • Minka in the Tree
  • Captain Redbeard and the Message in a Bottle
  • Pippo and the Big Jump
  • Flake, the Little Ghost
  • Rudy’s Red Nose

For parents

No distractions

No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription and no links to the outside.

Fully offline

Everything is included in the app. The game also works in airplane mode and collects no data.

Made for the youngest

Big targets, swipe or tap, no reading needed. No weapons, violence or anything scary.

Handmade

Every picture is drawn in code, and the music and sounds were made just for this game.

Help

Settings: sound, music and language open with a long press on the gear in the top right corner, so small children don’t change them by accident.

  • No sound? Check the volume of your iPhone or iPad and make sure sound and music are switched on in the game’s settings.
  • Progress: built houses and progress stay on the device. Deleting the app also deletes the progress. Nothing is synced between devices.
  • Back to the crane house: the button in the top left corner.

Contact

Questions, bugs or ideas: email feichten.code@gmail.com.

Little Crane needs no account and sends no data to the internet. See the privacy policy for details.