One payment, or one more subscription
Kids360 is one of the best-known parental control apps, and if you search for a way to manage your child's screen time you will meet it early. It does more than we do, and it is aimed at an older child than we are. It also costs more every month than Ollie's Camp costs once. Here is the honest version of that trade.
What Kids360 is good at
Starting with the parts where it wins, because pretending otherwise would waste your time.
It knows where they are
Live location on a map, with a history. If your child walks to school alone, that is a real thing to want, and we do not offer it in any form.
It reaches a phone you don't hold
Limits and schedules are set on your phone and pushed to theirs. For a child out of the house with their own phone, that is the only shape that works.
It tells you what they opened
Daily reports of which apps were used and for how long, so you can have a conversation with something behind it.
It is built for older children
Earning minutes with maths problems or ten squats in front of the camera is aimed at a nine-year-old negotiating, not a four-year-old pointing.
Now the price
Kids360's paid plan is roughly €12 a month, or €90 a year. The free tier keeps the reports and the location but puts the app limits and schedules (the screen-time management you probably came for) behind the subscription.
Ollie's Camp is €5.99. Once. Three years of Kids360 is somewhere around €270; three years of Ollie's Camp is €5.99, because there is no year two.
What Ollie's Camp does instead
We took the narrow half of the problem and tried to do it properly.
A daily limit, per category
Set an amount for Watching, Games, Reading, Listening, Learning or Making. Every app you filed under a category draws from the same pot, so swapping video apps doesn't buy more time. It counts on the tablet, works in aeroplane mode, and needs nothing from us.
Fewer apps, rather than more oversight
The screen holds the apps you chose and nothing else. There is no blocklist to keep up with, because nothing arrives on the screen unless you put it there.
Windows, not just amounts
“Nothing before 15:00” or “nothing after 19:30” shuts a category regardless of time left, and bedtime turns the whole screen quiet and warm, so the limit is usually not what ends the session.
Nothing leaves the tablet
No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no servers of ours in the middle. There is no dashboard for us to look at, which is the point.
Side by side
| Ollie's Camp | Kids360 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €5.99, once | About €12 a month, or €90 a year |
| What it actually is | A home screen for a young child's own tablet | A control room on your phone for an older child's phone |
| Daily time limit | Yes, per category, counted on the device. An hour of Watching is an hour, across every video app | Yes, per app and per schedule, set from your phone and pushed to theirs |
| Which apps they can open | Only the ones you put on the screen | Everything on the phone, minus the ones you block |
| The open web and social media | Not built in. Ollie's Camp has no browser of its own; one only appears if you add it as an app | Reachable. Kids360 blocks apps, not pages |
| Location tracking | None. We never know where the tablet is | Live on a map, with history |
| Usage reports | None. What happens on the tablet stays there | Yes, synced to your phone |
| Accounts | None, for you or your child | An account, plus a second app on each phone |
| Where the data lives | On the device. Nothing leaves it | On the company's servers, because that is what makes both phones agree |
| Works offline | Everything, including the time limit | Pairing, reports and location need a connection |
| Made for | Roughly 3 to 10, on a tablet you furnish | Roughly 9 and up, on a phone they carry |
Based on Kids360's public product pages, app-store listings and pricing in September 2026. Prices are converted from their UK listing (£9.99 a month, £79.99 a year); yours may differ. Spotted a mistake? Write to hello@olliescamp.app and we will correct it.
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.
Which one is for you
Choose Kids360
Your child has their own phone and their own errands. You want to see where they are, see what they opened, and change the rules from wherever you happen to be standing. A monthly fee is a fair price for that, and we genuinely don't do it.
Choose Ollie's Camp
Your child is somewhere between three and ten, the tablet mostly stays home, and what you actually want is a screen with a few good things on it and a limit on how long each of them lasts. You don't want a browser or a chat app on there at any price, so there is nothing for a filter to filter. You would rather pay once than subscribe, and you would rather no company (ours included) held a record of your child's day.
€5.99, once. Nothing to cancel.
No subscription. No ads. No accounts. No tracking.
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