The Gruffalo Spotter 2 UK v1.7
Magic Light Pictures
About this app
Developer Description
AR adventure with The Gruffalo – waving, stomping, dancing, roaring!
Children can interact with all The Gruffalo characters in 3D – waving, stomping, flying, dancing and roaring - as they appear magically beside them.
These wonderful moments can be filmed and photographed to cherish later and share on social media with the hashtag #GruffaloSpotters.
The Gruffalo Spotter 2 UK has been designed for exclusive use at Forestry England sites. The app is free, has no in app purchases and requires downloading before your visit.
**We recommend you fully charge your device before your visit. To get the longest battery life whilst on the trail you could consider turning Airplane Mode on and Bluetooth off.**
The Gruffalo Spotter 2 UK has been developed for Android 7+ (Nougat) and later on Samsung S8+, Pixel, Pixel2, Pixel3 and PixelXL, Samsung Galaxy Tab S4+. Previous versions of these devices will not be fully supported.
Please email office@magiclightpictures.com if you experience any technical difficulties.
Find your nearest trail at www.forestryengland.uk/gruffalo-spotters
Brought to you by Magic Light Pictures and Forestry England, The Gruffalo Spotter 2 app is cutting edge technology developed and animated by the award-winning Nexus Studios.
Based on The Gruffalo, the best-selling picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, families follow clues on an interactive trail and track signs for their favourite characters.
The self-led trail is packed with fun facts about the forest animals with fantastic activities along the way. Once families have spotted the characters, they can use the app to bring the 3D character animations to life, interact with the characters and film and take photographs of the experience.
Videos and photos are automatically added to the device’s gallery.
Taking family forest walks to new heights, the app mixes new technology with the real world, encouraging children to get exploring, firing their imaginations and giving them a forest experience like no other.
A Gruffalo Spotters 2 UK trail pack will be available to buy on site which includes an activity leaflet full of fun facts and activities, Gruffalo Mask and paws, a nature spotters game, stickers as well as a crayon and pencil.
For further details please visit www.forestryengland.uk/gruffalo-spotters
For our privacy policy please visit https://www.magiclightpictures.com/privacy-policy/
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What's New
Version Information
- Version
- 1.7
- Downloads
- 10K+
- Updated on
- Jul 5, 2021
- Released
- Jan 15, 2026
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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The Gruffalo Spotter 2 UK users say on Google Play
Amy Cook
I read a lot of negative reviews for this but it worked really well for us. Took me a while to realise the images and videos are saved in the files of my phone and not in the app. I'd recommend getting another person to do the interacting with the character so your child can watch the activity.
dominic watkins
Worked okay for us today. Didn't crash once, easy to record video just press record when it starts. We did the videos then my 5 year old watched them afterwards.recommended.
Matt Dalton
Very good as an idea, but flawed. Very important to download in advance at Kielder as there is little signal. The app itself worked okay to start with but didn't work with some of the trigger symbols. I cleaned one of them which then seemed to work, I couldn't get the snake one to work at all. Also, when we did the owl one perhaps I didn't complete it properly, so it wasn't acknowledged, even though the videos recorded, so guess which adult muppet had to go back and flap on his own to resolve it...! Nice idea, normally works, but has bugs.
Nick Lupton
The app wouldn't pick up the signs without the capture circle overlapping the target. In between the app just crashing the animations were good but the option to override the gestures needs to be there all the time. Would be good that when the app doesn't pick up the sign that you could select the target anyway. Good idea but needs a bit more UX with a parent and toddler using it.
Simon Davies
Oh dear. It seems like a great app and it was exciting to think we could use this on the trail. Unfortunately we only got it to work with Mouse, then it crashed out. Restarted the app, continued on but it wouldn't scan the remaining circles despite multiple attempts and plenty of patience. At the very end we did get it to work with the Gruffalo circle, in the last part of the walk. In addition, any pictures we did capture were out of focus! Not recommended.
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