Kinderloop Plus vs OWNA Childcare App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kinderloop Plus
This app simplifies documenting children's development for childcare educators and teachers globally. It securely shares child-specific information with linked families through real-time updates and allows private posting between family members.
- Educator-led features
- Secure child development documentation
- Real-time updates for families
- Private family posting
- Login with existing credentials
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Kinderloop Plus includes many new educator led features and is a recommended download for all Kinderloopers on newer devices, both educator and family member! Simply download to your device and login with your usual username and password. Kinderloop is the simplest, most secure & fun way for child care educators/teachers worldwide to document children’s development. Child specific information is privately shared with linked family, through real-time updates. Families can also privately post to each other in Kinderloop Plus!!
OWNA Childcare App
This app connects childcare centers with parents and educators. It facilitates curriculum planning, portfolio creation, daily routine tracking, and secure communication. Parents can view their child's progress and receive updates, while center management gains administrative oversight.
- Curriculum programming and planning
- Digital portfolios and observations
- Daily routine and attendance tracking
- Secure parent-educator messaging
- Administrative dashboard for centers
- Document and policy management
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Welcome to the OWNA Childcare App! The Best Childcare App for Families and Centres and it's all for FREE. For Educators - Curriculum Programming & Planning - Upload Images, Videos & PDFs - Portfolios - Observations, Follow Ups, Learning Stories ++ - Record Daily Routine - Meals, Sleep, Sunscreen, Nappies, Bottles, Sleep Check++ - Complete Checklists - Private Messaging - Receive Notification Alerts - Checkin/Out (Timesheets) - QIP - View & Contribute - Looks Great & Easy to use - Super fast and robust - Plus loads more+++ For Parents - View children's Daily Stats (meal, sleep, bottles etc) with past history - Digital Attendances (time logged, signature captured) - View Writeups, Images and Videos - Read Children's Portfolios - Notify Centre of Non Attendances - Upload Immunisation Record - View Programs, Policy Documents & more - Events Calendar - Secure Communication with Centre - Receive Notification Alerts - Looks Great & Easy to use - Plus loads more+++ For Owners/Directors/Management - App for both Educators & Parents - Responsible Person & Daily RP Log - Room Ratio/Across the Service Check - Digitise Reports - as per ACECQA's req'd - Administration Dashboard to oversee your Centre or multiple Centres - Centre Documents, Policies & Procedures, Helpful websites and more - Staff Timesheets, Stats & Performance - Events Calendar - Centre's Menus with automatic rotation - QIP Report - Safe & Secure Platform. Data stored locally. Adhere to industry standards. - Plus loads more+++ So if your centre is not on OWNA - tell them to get on it now! Enjoy and do let us know what you think. - OWNA Childcare App
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OWNA Childcare App at 60% against Kinderloop Plus's 41%. Kinderloop Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kinderloop Plus ships an update every 11 days, OWNA Childcare App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kinderloop Plus | OWNA Childcare App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kinderloop Inc | Owna |
Customer experience
Kinderloop Plus
OWNA Childcare App
User reviews
Kinderloop Plus
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use platform
- 👍 Facilitates practical workflow
- 👍 Impeccable customer support
- 👍 Listens to customer feedback
- 👍 Responsive support team
Room to improve
- 🐛 App doesn't send email for reset/login
- 🐛 UI/UX needs improvement
- 🐛 Pathetic UX
- 🐛 Horrible for updating data
- 🐛 Delay on posts showing up
OWNA Childcare App
From 6 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📱 Real-time updates on child's activities, meals, sleep, and toileting
- 📸 Photo and video sharing throughout the day
- ✅ Easy check-in/check-out functionality
- 💬 Seamless communication with educators
- 📋 Centralized platform for all childcare information
Room to improve
- 🗺️ Confusing and illogical navigation structure
- ❌ Poor user interface design
- 🐛 Frequent freezing and crashing
- ⏱️ Slow loading times for photos and videos
- 🔀 Inconsistent menu placement across app
Bugs and requests
Kinderloop Plus
Reported bugs
53 issues- App doesn't send email to reset or create login
- App doesn't respond
- Loads whole page instead of updating data
- Delay on posts showing up
- Notifications show old posts
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- Difficult to tell what's updated after notification
- New content doesn't show up after refreshing
- Daily Activity section is unclear and scrolls terribly
- Super slow and glitchy
- Notifications received but no update loads
- Takes hours for information to feed through
- Hard to find old contents
- No search, no filter for old content
- Not user friendly, everything is all over the place
- Usability issues and buggy
- Notification opens to last post, not the notified post
- Comment text box too big for phone screen
- Cannot save photos
- Cannot sign incident report if leaving comments
- Don't know which is the new post or comments
- Need to read every post to find the new one
- Wait to import photos is complicated and time consuming
- No option to re-upload later
- Sound doesn't always play on all devices
- Feed is messy, not displayed in chronological order
- Cannot have one-to-one conversation with a teacher
- Save to Camera Roll functionality removed
- Cannot download photos and videos directly
- Password reset link not sent
- Parents not able to view daily activity on the app
- Reopening page issues, app won't download unless closed and reopened
- Updates take a few hours to drop in
- Showing unknown error every time app is opened
- Screenshot is allowed, but download is not
- Teachers sending pics for whole week regardless of attendance
- Frustrating to log in via web browser for daily activity and accident reports
- Cannot take screenshot of photos
- App is really buggy, lots of crashes with 'unknown error'
- Posts don't load 50% of the time
- Takes hours (sometimes a whole day) for posts to appear
- Lack of ability to download photos and documents
- Cannot comment on posts since last update on mobile device
- Login required at least once per day on iPhone
- Constantly logged out
- Notifications aren't popping up or are delayed
- Massive lag with notifications
- App glitches and crashes when rotating phone
- Need improvement in UI/UX
- Login problems
- Refresh issues
- Delay on posts and notifications
- App doesn't send email for reset or login
- Save to Camera Roll functionality gone
Requested features
25 requests- More specific notifications
- Option to mute notifications for specific post types
- Dedicated spot for daily posts on main navigation
- Download photos and videos directly
- Save photos to camera roll
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- Option to re-upload photos
- Download images
- Option to exclude sending to parents whose child is not in that day
- Download option for photos and documents
- Improve refresh issues
- Make daily activity viewable on app
- Improve UX and customer experience
- Appoint a UX expert
- Redesign the app
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Improve notification system
- Add search and filter for old content
- Allow comments on posts
- Improve feed display (chronological order)
- Allow one-to-one conversations with teachers
- Add functionality to save photos and videos
- Fix sound issues on different devices
- Improve login session management
- Provide option to download photos and videos
OWNA Childcare App
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes and freezes frequently
- Sign-in/sign-out not registering properly
- Photos and videos fail to load or load slowly
- Video playback without sound
- Notifications delayed by hours or days
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- Date picker selecting wrong year (2025 vs 2026)
- Child profile photos not displaying (only initials)
- Some notifications missing from in-app list
- Ad pop-ups blocking account switching
- Dynamic Island covering video player buttons on iOS
- Single tap on photos unexpectedly exits view
- Like button slow to register
- Comments and notes disappearing from checklists
- Attendance records not showing after sign-in
- Form data not saving properly on connection drop
- Mute button for conversations not functioning
- Dark mode toggle not working
- Back gesture not supported on iOS
- Photo gallery not updating properly on iPad
- Slow performance and responsiveness issues
Requested features
19 requests- Dark mode or customizable color themes
- Multi-child support in single login account
- Direct messaging with educators
- Ability to mark favorite or pin important items
- Photo thumbnail preview while scrolling
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- Live chat support, especially for finance
- Multiple parent/guardian access from one account
- Permanent booking options
- Group booking and cancellation functionality
- Draft save feature for long enrollment forms
- Confirmation copy of submitted forms
- Badge notifications for new posts
- Chronological photo viewing by child
- Better iPad landscape/portrait layout support
- Ability to filter marketplace by multiple locations
- Notification preferences and mute options
- Improved roster viewing for staff
- Under/over threes staff ratio display
- Integrated form functions instead of linked ones
In-app purchases
Kinderloop Plus
No in-app purchases
OWNA Childcare App
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Kinderloop Plus free?
Is OWNA Childcare App free?
Do Kinderloop Plus or OWNA Childcare App have ads?
Which is updated more often, Kinderloop Plus or OWNA Childcare App?
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