Pinwheel Caregiver vs Packable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pinwheel Caregiver
Manage your child's smartphone usage with a curated app library, safelisted contacts, and customizable schedules. Create routines to foster independence and responsibility, while monitoring location and text messages. This system helps establish healthy tech boundaries without conflict.
- Safelist contacts with scheduled availability
- Enable apps from a curated library
- Schedule app and contact permissions by time of day
- Create customizable routines for chores and tasks
- Monitor live location and text messages
- Companion app for Pinwheel smartphones
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Solve the kid / phone problem with Pinwheel. No need to figure out which parental controls manage which device best! Pinwheel's custom-built system gives you the proper tool to teach your child healthy tech habits from day one. This Pinwheel app provides access to our Caregiver Portal. The Caregiver Portal give you the power to configure and control a Pinwheel smartphone for your child. The phone and the app work hand-in-hand to let your kid establish a healthy relationship with technology. In this app, you can: - **Safelist contacts.** You approve every contact the Pinwheel phone can call or text, and you can schedule when those contacts are available each day. No strangers, no spam calls, no texting friends all night. - **Enable apps.** No app store on the Pinwheel phone **keeps app choices in your hands**, not your child's. The curated app library makes it easy to choose useful, healthy apps for your child. No social media, no addictive games, not internet browsing, no mindless consumption. - **Schedule Permissions.** Our Days/Modes calendar lets you choose which contacts and apps are available at what times of day. No texting friends during school, no staying up late using apps. You choose what they can do during different times of day. No need to constantly remind them what is and isn't ok. **Pinwheel helps them develop healthy boundaries around technology use, without the drama**. - **Create Routines.** Help your child learn to be more independent and responsible with Pinwheel's fully-customizable checklists. A morning routine to make sure they're ready for school on time, with teeth brushed and backpack in hand. A bedtime routine for evening peace. Routines for chores, for music practice, for anything you'd like your kid to do without you telling them for the millionth time. Gold stars and confetti help them celebrate their daily wins and nurture good habits as they *ask* to stay on track. - **Parent Them Well.** Live Status shows you the location of the phone. Text message monitoring allows you to supervise and coach them on appropriate communication. Download the Caregiver Portal app today to explore the parental controls for free! Visit our website to purchase a phone for your child, and put the controls to use. ———— **Pinwheel Subscription Pricing** This Pinwheel Caregiver Portal app is a companion app to Pinwheel phones. It does not work with other phones. You are welcome to explore the app for free! To use with a Pinwheel phone, the app is $29.99 per month including Pinwheel Wireless plan (unlimited talk and text with 5GB high speed data), or $17.99 per month if you choose your own cellular carrier. Save 15% if you purchase multiple devices. See more information and purchase Pinwheel phones on our website: https://www.pinwheel.com **Cellular Plans** Pinwheel phones are unlocked devices, which allow you to choose Pinwheel Wireless, or a cellular plan from major networks and providers. ———— **Need Help?** If you have any questions, need help with Pinwheel, or want to provide feedback, please contact our Customer Care Team: support@pinwheel.com
Packable
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Make packing and moving manageable with this essential inventory tracking app. Create detailed inventories with searchable origins and destinations, QR code box labels, and automatically generated shipping manifests. Pack your box, attach a QR code label, and scan it when your box arrives at your destination to keep track of what items have safely arrived. Never worry about losing your favorite items during a house move ever again! Features: - Easy-to-use interface to quickly add a new item (such as a piece of furniture or box) to your inventory - Option to tag each item as heavy, fragile, valuable or temperature sensitive - Itemized box content: make item lists for high-value items within an individual box (e.g., say you want to keep track of all individual records in a box of LPs, or all your individual LEGO sets in a box of LEGO) - Option to add the item’s value - never argue with the shipping or insurance company again over the value of lost items - Automatically generated ID number and QR code for each item, indicating the item’s origin, destination, value, and any relevant tags (heavy, fragile, etc.) - Add a photos to each item - Automatically generated shipping manifests for customs and moving companies - Multiple destinations/storage locations. Movers would know where to ship items based on separate labels that show the destination
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pinwheel Caregiver at Free against Packable's $0.99. Pinwheel Caregiver also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Pinwheel Caregiver is free to download; Packable costs $0.99 up front. Packable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pinwheel Caregiver asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Pinwheel Caregiver | Packable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (194 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 47.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 194 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pinwheel | Oleg Popov |
In-app purchases
Pinwheel Caregiver
No in-app purchases
Packable
- Packable Premium$14.99
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