Bought my boys kindle fires (ages 2, 3, and 6) and I am overwhelmed by all of the Kids+ content on it. I really don't want to get sucked into ANOTHER monthly charge in a year when the free subscription runs out. SO what are your kids favorite kindle apps and games? I feel overwhelmed and I think I should just turn the Kids+ stuff off. OR tell me if Kids+ is worth it.
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I don’t think we’ve really used the kids+ stuff! We can have them watch videos using our prime video account. We have the PBS kids and PBS games apps. We do pay for ABC Mouse for my four-year-old. And then we have a few games we bought that were just one-time purchase, not subscription. Some from Highlights and then my son loves a Jurassic lego game, haha.
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This is excellent timing for me to think about since we bought our kindle a year ago and it's now time to decide if we want to continue the subscription. For us the kids+ has really only been useful for books. The apps that are my kids favorites are free or cheap - PBS kids apps and Hoopa City. But they do use it for books pretty regularly and I don't know how we'd easily get that content without kids+. I know we could check out books through our library but then I'd have to have the foresight to make sure I'm checking stuff out digitally, whereas with kids+ there's just always stuff there. But I guess I might get higher quality books too. They do read an awful lot of LEGO books
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Wow, just checked and I will literally start paying $7/mo tomorrow if I don't cancel today. The timing is surreal. DH are discussing it and currently leaning towards canceling, primarily because of the overwhelming amount of content that there is in Kids+. We think it'd be a better experience to just curate their top favorites.
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We have had a Fire Kids for several years and I find the Kids+ subscription to be worth it. Ours is only $2.99 - but maybe I should check!! Both my daughters tend to favor the game apps that, when I looked, had individual prices of $1.99-$3.99 or so which has always made the subscription less expensive than one new app a month.
We just upgraded my older daughter to a Fire Kids Pro and I’m not sure I’ll renew the Kids+ for her after the free year only because she may age-out of a lot of the free content she used to use, but I’m definitely open to keeping it so that it’s one less thing for me to think about.
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@lindseykaye: So, this might be a dumb question, but how do they (or you) find stuff on Kids+? Nothing has titles, it's just pictures, which makes sense for little kids if they can't read...I guess they just click around? I don't know for some reason this makes me feel really old and grumpy. I'm used to an ipad where it's a blank slate and have to choose what I want to be added.
I do think it's only 2.99/kid.
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@JennyPenny: Ha, glad I posted this question then!
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Something I found helpful when I decided to not renew our subscription: checking the apps they used over and over again.
We went with PBS Kids Games and Video, Khan Academy Kids, ABC Mouse (although our year is up and we're not renewing it), Teach a Monster to Read, and a handful of NumberBlocks and Sesame Street apps.
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@LadyDi: under your kids account you can change how the apps look (they have it based by age). The younger the age the apps look like pictures. I just recently had the same frustration when looking at my son's kindle. Then found the setting to change it and felt so much better about it! I'm like you can read, why are all these pictures?! Hope that helps!
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@LadyDi: There is a search function if you want to look for something specific vs. browsing categories. And like @mrslibrarian: mentioned You can change the appearance for older kids (but I didn’t know this either - ours changed when we migrated to the Fire Kids Pro).
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