What is Amazon Kids+ subscription?

By Jason Murdock

Published: Tuesday, 12 July 2022 at 12:00 am

If you have an Amazon tablet or smart speaker and want to make it suitable for a young child, a subscription to Kids+ could be for you.

Signing up to this paid tier – which starts from £1.99 per month if you’re already a member of Amazon Prime – opens up access to thousands of books, learning apps, games, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, ad-free radio stations and more.

Parents who are planning on picking up a new Echo Dot Kids smart speaker when it launches on 21st July may be especially interested in Amazon Kids+ on Alexa, a new service that’s set to introduce voice-activated child-friendly content.

So whether it’s keeping your child occupied with a new game, listening to a narrated book before bed or asking questions about school subjects, a Kids+ subscription has you covered. Here’s what you need to know about how it works.

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Get Amazon Kids+ for £3.99 with a Prime membership

Amazon Kids+ is a subscription service that gives you unlimited access to thousands of kid-friendly books, movies, TV shows, educational apps, and games.

Along with access to Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day sale, a Prime membership also gets you free premium delivery and subscriptions to Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Music.

Sign up for Amazon Prime and get Amazon Kids+ for only £3.99 a month

What is Amazon Kids+?

Amazon Kids+ is a paid subscription service that gives unlimited access to a slew of content specifically made for children, including books, videos, apps, audiobooks, and educational material – sorted by three age groups: 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

It also gives parents a special dashboard to control what content their child is able to see and access. Parents are able to set screen time limits, filter out any content that is not age appropriate and review activity that’s recorded on the account – so there’s no chance of a child browsing social media without your consent.

Essentially, it adds a vast library of content on top of the free Amazon Kids service, which offers several basic child-friendly controls to your tablet or phone – including screen time limits, the ability to block websites and make announcements to Echo devices. This base service does not have access to the premium content.

In the free service, some apps may contain ads. But Amazon Kids+ offers a total ad free experience. The free service has in-app purchases blocked by default, while in the Amazon Kids+ membership parents have more flexibility to allow purchases. In both options, however, the parents can create profiles for up to four children.

Amazon Kids+ on Alexa adds even more into the subscription – providing access to Alexa-specific content including more than 170 Audible books, premium skill apps including Numberblocks and wake up alerts from some popular fictional characters.

There is also a free version, called Amazon Kids on Alexa, that brings some voice control features and parental controls to Echo, Echo Dot, or Echo Plus devices but – much like Kids vs Kids+ – totally lacks the premium paid content for children.

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