I am so frustrated with this app. When I try to connect devices to my account there is no clear way to do so. I have three of the same tablets in the house but I cannot for the life of me get my daughter's tablet to connect with the profiles I've set up with the other tablets. It is infuriating how many hours of my life I have wasted. I wish Amazon was compatible with Family Link which actually works as advertised. Amazon Kids is an app that totally sucks. Three thumbs down. Worst ever.
Josh Mondy
While functional on its own, I have had a miserable time actually using this app. Scheduling is a joke. Want to give the kids more time tonight? You have to set the weekly schedule instead of overriding just tonight. Often, syncing parental policy changes is slow-to-never-happened. I've often had to sign into the device itself, which pretty much negates the need for this app, no? Also, where is the "Find My Device" functionality? As far as I can tell, this isn't even here. WHY?
Erika Fisher
for some reason I can't change the time anymore ...the only option I have when trying to adjust the time (manually or by the clock) is "clear" or "cancel" on the time. it's been a week or so , I've tried resintalling , clearing the cache/data, etc. annoying!!
Stephanie L
Not user friendly at all. Hard to figure out and runs the user in circles. Honestly does not offer much control either. I've set up "educational app" requirements and she can still watch videos. I've blocked videos and she can still watch them! The age filter isn't accurate at all and allows access to items way beyond my kids level, but there's so much shared it would take hours to look through all of it and disable it all
Angela Gomez
Error. Whatever updates you're doing, the app is no longer working. When it does work, any changes I make regarding time changes for my child's device may or may not work. Look at Googles parental control for a chromebook. That works great. We've been using Amazon kids unlimited for 8 years now. You'd think after 8 years it'd be better:/
Chris Henderson
The screen time limits feature is an absolute joke, it doesn't work in any way. If I set it to an hour a day, it'll tell us that the hour has been used and the tablet is locked first thing in the morning. Setting certain hours for use doesn't matter, it'll either randomly lock the tablet and not allow any use or it'll ignore the set hours.
RaChelle Wokoma
WTH is this? Not only does this not do what it's supposed to do and limit my child's actions on their devices, I can't even open the open the app to see why it's not working. This is an actual Amazon app? For real? Wow. I have too many Amazon products that keep glitching out from the fire sticks dying every 1-2 years and now this...Scared for the Blink cameras I just bought. Imagine they don't actually capture someone trespassing. Maybe it really is time to switch Apple compatible products.
Jamee Kujawa
I like using this to set up screen time rules. But occasionally when I try to change the screen time rule (like on holidays or snow days) it doesn't register on the tablet. That kind of defeats the purpose. It's connected to Wi-Fi so I'm not sure why it isn't registering. I like that I'm able to monitor exactly which apps they are on I also dislike how much Auto installed content there is. There are game apps that I cannot remove. I am not sure if that is an Amazon problem or due to this app.
Kevin Blank
Horrible, You can't trust this will block content you don't want. Pause feature never works. Does not allow Amazon prime videos even though you pay for it. doesn't make sense that they'd not allow their own programming, but will allow their competitors. I'm looking at an Android tablet as you can choose what you want. Most apps visible allow kids to download without permission, don't allow you to remove or hide and want you to pay for a subscription. learning apps are not free.
Kelly Larson
It's helpful buuuut.... it needs to let me customize more. Like if I want them to be able to only listen to music for a certain amount of time. Or I only want them to be able to use certain learning apps first or for a select duration. Or add more time temporarily without having to remember to change the settings back. Give me more options please
