Kids Apps Have a Problem
We went looking for good apps our son could use. The list of ones he couldn't use ended up longer than the ones he could.
Ads Ads Ads
The free apps are filled with ads. Moving, blinking, designed to be tapped. And of course a 3 year old is going to press them, then can't find their way back out. What's supposed to be a simple game turned into a stimulating machine.
Subscriptions for software that never changes
The paid apps all want a recurring subscription; yearly, monthly, sometimes even weekly. For a kids app that might only do a couple things. You're not buying it, you're renting it forever, and its not like your kids are using it 24/7 to justify that.
Neither felt right
We have a 3 year old. We don't want him tapping ads, and we don't want to pay a fee for him to use it a couple times a week. The colours and motion in most apps wind him up enough as it is. We pulled back on screens so something simple and cost efficent is all we need. Almost nothing out there met a pretty low bar: safe, simple, no ads, no subscription.
So we're building it.
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