Comparison

Kinderloop Plus vs Xplor Playground

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Educator-led features
  • Secure child development documentation
  • Real-time updates for families
  • Private family posting
  • Login with existing credentials
Features
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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!!

About

Xplor Playground

This app helps educators document children's learning journeys, monitor their health, and manage emergencies. It facilitates secure sharing of information with parents and allows for quick attendance tracking and ratio management.

Highlights
  • Capture learning observations
  • Monitor child health at a glance
  • Offline emergency lists
  • Secure parent sharing
  • Digital attendance and ratios
  • Detailed food and medical records
Features
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Xplor Playground, by Xplor Technologies helps Capture every moment in a child's learning journey, keep on top of health and wellbeing at a glance, and stay ready for anything, from daily routines to emergencies. Keep parents in the loop by securely sharing with them. OBSERVATIONS & LEARNING Don't miss a moment. Capture an observation in seconds, share up to 16 photos at once, and tag learning outcomes as you go, or save as a draft and finish later. HEALTH & ROUTINES See every child's day at a glance. Sleep checks follow Red Nose Australia guidelines and ACECQA endorsement, with bulk logging so routines don't eat into your day. Timers flag nappy changes and rest checks before they're missed. MEDICATION & INCIDENTS A simplified medication workflow with signature support for administrators and witnesses. Incident records now include digital signatures, so documentation is complete without the paperwork. DOCUMENTS, YOUR WAY Categorise child documentation for easier organisation and reporting, and choose which attachments educators see directly in the app. EMERGENCY READY Works without an internet connection. Mark children safe, add notes, and time-stamp the response as it happens. MADE FOR SHARING One tablet or phone, many educators. The dashboard makes handovers between staff in a room simple. ATTENDANCE & RATIOS See who's signed in and booked in at a glance and stay in ratio without the guesswork.

Screenshots

Kinderloop Plus3 screens
Xplor Playground4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Xplor Playground at 67% against Kinderloop Plus's 41%. Kinderloop Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kinderloop Plus ships an update every 11 days, Xplor Playground every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Kinderloop Plus versus Xplor Playground: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKinderloop PlusXplor Playground
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB121 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKinderloop IncXplor

Customer experience

Kinderloop Plus

Written reviews51 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral21.6%
Negative37.3%

Xplor Playground

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral7.2%
Negative26.1%

User reviews

Kinderloop Plus

From App Store reviews

What 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

Xplor Playground

From 2 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Makes life easier
  • 👍 Great for tracking learning
  • 👍 Good for parents to see updates
  • 👍 Time saving for educators

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent login issues
  • 🐛 App is glitchy/buggy
  • 🐛 App is slow/lags
  • 🐛 Posts not saving/freezing
  • 🐛 Feedback not taken on board

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
Show 48 more
  • 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

Xplor Playground

Reported bugs

22 issues
  • Forgot password emails never send or take too long
  • Educators randomly unable to sign in
  • Accident reports cannot be opened once saved
  • Accident reports cannot be deleted
  • Pin is incorrect repeatedly
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  • Unable to save posts, system freezes
  • Posts saving on wrong accounts
  • Posts not saving after update
  • Food, sleep, nappy changes not visible to parents
  • App constantly logs users out
  • Cannot save drafts
  • Observations for previous days require individual child search
  • Notifications not coming through properly
  • New users don't have sign-up option
  • Cannot log in despite correct credentials
  • App says password is wrong but works on computer/web
  • Password reset link not received
  • Error page for reporting faults
  • App shuts down every few minutes
  • Families only see a fraction of uploaded photos
  • Photo uploading function not working
  • App doesn't work, says 'oops something has gone wrong'

Requested features

13 requests
  • Allow booking children into multiple sessions
  • Improve 'forgot password' functionality
  • Make accident reports deletable
  • Allow delegates option to delete posts
  • Improve editing time limits for posts
Show 8 more
  • Simplify 'Framework' section
  • Improve meal time logging visibility
  • Allow multiple staff sign-in
  • Make sign-in/out process more efficient for OSHC
  • Allow photo uploads across the whole center
  • Implement notifications for parent comments
  • Ensure all features are accessible on the app, not just desktop
  • Revert to simpler sign-in process like Xplor

In-app purchases

None

Kinderloop Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Xplor Playground

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kinderloop Plus free?
Kinderloop Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Xplor Playground free?
Xplor Playground is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kinderloop Plus or Xplor Playground have ads?
Neither Kinderloop Plus nor Xplor Playground shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kinderloop Plus or Xplor Playground?
Kinderloop Plus ships an update every 11 days, and Xplor Playground every 2 weeks. Most recently, Kinderloop Plus was updated on November 11, 2026 and Xplor Playground on November 13, 2026.

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