Flatmate Finders vs Kiddo App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flatmate Finders
Find your ideal home or flatmate with personalized searches, detailed profiles, and secure communication features. The app offers free in-app calls and notifications for new matches and messages, ensuring a quick and safe search experience.
- Personalized searches
- Detailed user profiles
- Instant messaging
- Free in-app calls
- Home listing reviews
- Match notifications
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Personalised searches, detailed profiles, instant messages and free in-app calls ensure that you find the perfect home or flatmate quickly, easily and safely. Every home listing is reviewed by our team to help you get the best results. You'll receive notifications about new matches and messages so you don't miss out. Suitable for people of all ages, shared and vacant homes, short to long-term stays, singles/couples/friends, LGBTI+, pet friendly homes, and all rent budgets.
Kiddo App
This app connects parents with verified local babysitters, nannies, and NDIS carers. It offers secure in-app payments, organized bookings, and direct messaging for seamless care arrangements. Features include ID and Working with Children checks for all carers, an independent review system, and automatic invoicing for NDIS care.
- Verified babysitters and nannies
- NDIS carer matching
- In-app payments and overtime
- Organized bookings
- In-app messaging
- Automatic NDIS invoicing
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Kiddo connects parents to verified, local Babysitters, Nannies and NDIS Carers instantly. Proudly owned and operated by an Aussie Mum, an award-winning service that is LOVED by thousands of parents throughout Australia – just read our reviews, they say it all! Parents - Why use Kiddo? All Kiddo Carers are ID & Working with Children Checked. Kiddo provides an independent review and rating system, so you really know who the superstars are. Keep your bookings in one place, stay organised with our in-app messaging. Make bookings with as little as two hours notice and know that you’ll never have to find another ATM with Kiddo’s in-app payment system – allowing for overtime too. NDIS Care We provide parents with the very best support workers that are child focussed! Our extra features for NDIS care include better matching and automatic invoicing – saving parents even more time! Ongoing Care Kiddo can assist parents to find short term or long term recurring care arrangements with its Ongoing Care service. Carers – How Kiddo can help you! Kiddo provides carers with a much-needed tool to manage their bookings, ongoing availability and build a brand. Be recognised for every booking you do, set your preferences to be matched to bookings that suit your needs. You set your own rates and are in control. Never have another awkward conversation about money again! Just focus on what you do best – providing exceptional care for children! Kiddo is free to download, find out more by visiting our website www.kiddoapp.com.au Terms of Use: https://kiddoapp.com.au/termsofservice/ Privacy Statement: https://kiddoapp.com.au/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kiddo App at 5.0 against Flatmate Finders's 4.6. Kiddo App also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Flatmate Finders's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Flatmate Finders sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Kiddo App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kiddo App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Flatmate Finders's written reviews are positive against 79% of Kiddo App's.
Flatmate Finders ships an update every 3 weeks, Kiddo App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flatmate Finders | Kiddo App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | FLATMATE FINDERS PTY LTD | Kiddo (Aust) Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Flatmate Finders
Kiddo App
User reviews
Flatmate Finders
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Fast and efficient matching
- ✅ Helpful for finding flatmates/tenants
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🌟 High success rate in finding accommodation/tenants
Room to improve
- ⚠️ Many inactive/old listings
- 💸 Expensive subscription fees
- 🚫 Limited filtering options
- 🤔 Lack of tenant reviews/landlord background checks
- 🤖 Presence of fake accounts/scammers
Kiddo App
From 11 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 👍 Great for finding babysitters
- 👍 Reliable and trustworthy carers
- 👍 Good for last-minute bookings
- 👍 NDIS funding support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Payment issues
- 🐛 Carers cancelling last minute
- 🐛 No-shows by carers
- 🐛 Delayed refunds
- 🐛 Lack of work opportunities for carers
Bugs and requests
Flatmate Finders
Reported bugs
8 issues- App is very slow and sometimes does not load
- Messages not loading
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Filters are ignored
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- App deactivates profiles without clear reason
- Issues with dark mode
- Message field could be bigger
Requested features
15 requests- Allow setting hard filters for matches
- Improve filtering options (gender, couples, pets, budget)
- Add tenant review system
- Implement landlord background checks
- Allow cutting and pasting mobile numbers
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- Enable calling directly from the app
- Filter out inactive users
- Show last online date on profiles
- Filter by move-in date preferences
- More gender options
- Remove sexuality as a filter criterion
- Improve the matching algorithm accuracy
- Allow deleting profiles from matches feed
- Larger message field
- Improve dark mode functionality
Kiddo App
Reported bugs
5 issues- WWCC pending verification even after done
- App keeps freezing
- Bookings added but freeze and can't view details
- Payment errors ('something went wrong')
- App blocked registration until license photo emailed
Requested features
5 requests- Filter by additional languages spoken by babysitters
- Ability for sitters to 'opt out' of a job after 12 hours if parent is indecisive
- Option for sitters to pin or highlight best reviews
- More proactive communication options for carers
- Instant payment for carers
In-app purchases
Flatmate Finders
- Audio and video call service2 variants$2.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$7.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$9.99
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- Flatmate service for 14 days$12.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month2 variants$14.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$19.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$22.99
Kiddo App
- Kiddo$19.993 Months
- Kiddo$39.996 Months
