Plek vs Octopus Ouder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plek
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Plek is a community and collaboration platform: easy-to-use, fast, smart and secure. A social intranet, community portal and knowledge-sharing platform, with all essential functionalities: news, profiles, groups, messages, calendars, documents and messaging. Plek helps you break through silos, stimulating co-operation and knowledge sharing. Involve people with Plek, internally or across organizational boundaries: employees, partners, freelancers, volunteers, stakeholders, consumers...
Octopus Ouder
This app provides real-time insights into children's activities at daycare. Parents can easily report absences, schedule swaps, and receive important updates via push notifications. Requires affiliation with SDB and login credentials from your childcare provider.
- Real-time activity insights
- Report absences
- Schedule day swaps
- Push notifications
- Direct communication
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De SDB Octopus OuderApp geeft realtime inzicht in wat de kinderen tijdens de opvang doen. Daarnaast kunnen ruildagen, ziekmelding, etc. direct worden doorgegeven. Via push berichten blijft u altijd op de hoogte. Om de OuderApp te gebruiken, moet uw kinderopvangorganisatie aangesloten zijn bij SDB. Ook heeft u een gebruikersnaam en wachtwoord nodig. Deze ontvangt u via uw kinderopvangorganisatie.
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Verdict
Plek and Octopus Ouder are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Plek ships an update every 5 weeks, Octopus Ouder monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plek | Octopus Ouder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plek Group B.V | SDB Groep |
In-app purchases
Plek
No in-app purchases
Octopus Ouder
No in-app purchases
