How Ollie's Camp compares
A comparison should name names. On the tablet, Ollie's Camp is weighed against Google Kids Space, Samsung Kids and Amazon Kids+. Further along sit the monitoring suites like Kids360, which sell something else again.
On the tablet: the launcher
The launcher replaces the home screen of a tablet your child keeps. These are the three screens families actually weigh it against.
Google Kids Space
Google's kids home screen, free and preinstalled on many Android tablets, and it is worth asking why. The landing view is a discovery feed for the Play catalogue: apps, books and videos, each one a tap away from an install screen. The product is not really the home screen. It is the store behind it.
It also requires a Google Account for your child, so the profile starts years before they can read what it is for.
Ollie's Camp recommends nothing. The screen shows the apps you chose, in the order you left them, and never suggests one more.
Samsung Kids
Free and already on every Samsung tablet, which makes it the default for Samsung families. A capable kids mode with a crayon-drawn world of its own: Samsung's kids apps, a camera, a gallery, plus the apps you allow in.
It exists only on Samsung devices, and your own media has no way in: no Navidrome, no AudioBookshelf, no Immich.
Ollie's Camp runs on any Android tablet and fills the screen with your choices, not Samsung's.
Amazon Kids+
The benchmark subscription: a monthly fee for Amazon's catalogue of children's books, videos and games, at its best on a Fire tablet.
It is a rental. The shelves are stocked by Amazon's editors and streamed from Amazon's cloud, and the day you stop paying, they empty.
Ollie's Camp costs €5.99, once, and organises what you already own. Nothing empties.
The launcher, side by side
| Ollie's Camp | Google Kids Space | Samsung Kids | Amazon Kids+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | €5.99, once | Free | Free | A fee every month |
| Works on | Any Android tablet, and phones too | Selected Android tablets | Samsung devices only | Fire tablets, plus an Android app |
| What fills the screen | The apps you chose | A feed of Play apps, books and videos | Samsung's kids world, plus apps you allow | Amazon's catalogue |
| Child account | None | Google Account required | Your Samsung account | Your Amazon account |
| Your own music, books and photos | Yes, from your own collection | No | No | No |
| Learning content | Built in, included | Free apps from the Play catalogue | Samsung's own kids apps | Part of the subscription |
| Works offline | Everything | Partly | Mostly | Downloads, while subscribed |
| Tracking and analytics | None | Google's privacy policy applies | Samsung's privacy policy applies | Amazon's privacy policy applies |
Based on the public product pages and policies of these services in August 2026. Spotted a mistake? Write to hello@olliescamp.app and we will correct it.
The other kind: monitoring apps like Kids360
Kids360 and the apps around it sell something different again: a control room on your phone, watching your child's phone. It is a real product for a real age, and it is worth being clear about where it beats us and where it doesn't.
Kids360
Two apps paired through an account: Kids360 on your phone, Alli360 on theirs. You get app blocking, daily schedules, usage reports, live location on a map, and little tasks your child can finish to earn extra minutes. It is built for an older child who already carries their own phone.
It bills monthly (around €12 a month, or €90 a year), and the two phones stay in step through the company's servers, because a location history and a usage history have to live somewhere.
Ollie's Camp is €5.99, once, which is around half of one month of Kids360. It does less on purpose: a daily time limit and a screen holding only the apps you chose, with no account, no servers and no map with your child on it.
The full Kids360 comparison →Made for children up to about ten
Ollie's Camp is built for the years before a child has any business on the open web or on social media: roughly three to ten. That is our view, and the app is shaped by it: there is no browser built in, and a child only meets the web if a parent deliberately puts it on the screen.
A kids' tablet is good at six things
They are the six sections of the home screen, and between them they cover what a device is genuinely worth handing to a young child.
- Learning Animals, maths, calm games.
- Games Playing something, alone or with you.
- Reading Picture books and stories.
- Listening Music, audiobooks and stories.
- Watching Something chosen, not something served.
- Making Drawing, building, recording.
And it is not good at two
Communicating and browsing. So Ollie's Camp does not build them in, and does not try to make them safe either, which is why a few features you may be shopping for are missing on purpose.
- No built-in browser
Ollie's Camp has no address bar of its own. In our view the web is not a place a seven-year-old should wander, and we do not think it can be made into one. You can still put Chrome or Firefox on the grid like any other app and allow it; that is your call. We just don't advise it.
- No chat, no social media
Every large platform sets thirteen as its floor, and they are right to. A child below that age is not supposed to be there, so we don't build a friendlier door into it.
- No DNS or web filtering
Filtering is what you reach for once you have already let the web in: it blocks a list and misses everything that isn't on it. We would rather not let the web in. A filtered web is still the web.
- No message monitoring, no surveillance
We don't read your child's messages, because there are none to read. Reading them would be the wrong repair for having allowed them in the first place.
Apps, not communication and not browsing. Everything else follows from that, including why Ollie's Camp does less than the monitoring suites, and costs €5.99 once instead of a fee every month.
One payment of €5.99. Nothing to cancel, nothing to lose.
No subscription. No ads. No accounts. No tracking.
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