MyKidsSpending | MySpending vs Tin Can
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyKidsSpending | MySpending
Easily manage your school spending accounts on the go. Add funds via bank transfer or Apple Pay, check your balance, and view recent deposits. Use the in-app QR code for purchases and order meals or activities if your school supports it.
- Add funds from bank account
- Pay with Apple Pay
- Check account balance
- View last deposit information
- In-app QR code for purchases
- Order meals and activities
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"MyKidsSpending | MySpending" is the iOS app for MyKidsSpending.com and MySpending.info. The MKS app makes it easy to add funds to your MKS|MSI accounts, either by depositing funds from a U.S. bank account or by paying with Apple Pay (all from within the app). The app allows you to conveniently check your school spending account balance and gives you information on the last deposit received. Find out before you get into the checkout line whether money has been put into your account. Use the in-app QR code to buy items at your cafeteria or bookstore. Once your school has the ordering feature enabled, you can use the app to order meals, sign up for activities, and more all from your within the app.
Tin Can
This app allows parents to manage a screen-free phone designed for children. It enables control over approved contacts, call hours, and call history, ensuring a safe communication experience for kids.
- Approve contacts
- Set call hours
- View call history
- Manage multiple devices
- Share device access
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Tin Can: The Kid Phone That’s All Talk. Remember when phones just made calls? When your best friend’s number lived in your head and your social network was whoever answered the landline? Tin Can brings that freedom back — but for your kid. It’s a screen-free phone that runs on Wi-Fi and only calls approved contacts. No apps. No strangers. No doom scrolling. Just grandparent chats, playdate plans, and “Can I stay five more minutes?” calls. The Tin Can companion app gives parents (and only parents) the behind-the-scenes magic that controls their Tin Can phone: • Approve who they can call (and who can call them) • Set call hours (like bedtime is not party line time) • See call history • Share your Tin Can with friends to grow the crew • Control multiple cans from one place (power move) Tin Can: Built for kids. Approved by the same generation that made prank calls on rotary phones.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tin Can at 71% against MyKidsSpending | MySpending's 13%. Tin Can also leads on chart position (#10 vs unranked). MyKidsSpending | MySpending's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (856 vs 105). 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.
MyKidsSpending | MySpending holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyKidsSpending | MySpending has 856 ratings behind it against 105, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of MyKidsSpending | MySpending's written reviews are positive against 71% of Tin Can's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MyKidsSpending | MySpending ships an update every 10 days, Tin Can every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyKidsSpending | MySpending | Tin Can |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (856 ratings) — better | 3.0 (105 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 13.2% of reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 856 — better | 105 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #10 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.8.3 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Odin Inc. | Tin Can |
Customer experience
MyKidsSpending | MySpending
Tin Can
In-app purchases
MyKidsSpending | MySpending
No in-app purchases
Tin Can
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is Tin Can free?
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