Comparison

Tiny Tot Screen Lock vs Baby Mode

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Tot Screen Lock

This app creates a secure, childproof play area on your device. It offers early-learning games, music, a mirror, and family photo mode for infants and toddlers. Parents gain peace of mind with a strong toddler lock and an ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Secure childproof play area
  • Early-learning games
  • Baby music mode
  • Baby mirror mode
  • Family photo mode
  • Ad-free experience
  • Toddler lock
Features
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Tiny Tot Screen Lock – A Safe and Playful Space for Your Little One Tiny Tot Screen Lock turns your phone into a secure, childproof play area made just for infants, babies, and toddlers. With a reliable baby lock, your little one can tap, explore, and enjoy the screen without leaving the app or changing your settings. What Your Baby Will Enjoy • Early-learning games with high-contrast visuals and gentle sensory play • Baby music mode for calming and fun sound exploration • Baby mirror mode for giggles, smiles, and self-discovery • Family photo mode for comfort and connection • Great for tummy time, quiet play, focus building, and early development What Parents Will Love • 100% ad-free and safe • Strong toddler lock to prevent accidental taps • A calm, meaningful screen experience for little learners • Peace of mind while your child plays securely Download Tiny Tot Screen Lock and give your baby a safe, joyful, and development-friendly space to play and explore. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Baby Mode

Features
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Your phone is now a toy. Only a toy. Baby Mode fills the screen with one thing a baby can do and locks everything else. No messages. No camera roll. No calls to your boss at 11pm. The screen gets tapped for fifteen minutes. You get your inbox back, unsent. TEN PLAYGROUNDS, DRAWN WITH A RULER Pop — shapes drift, and a tap pops one. Painting — colour blooms under the finger, then breathes back to paper. Someone — a circle and two squares that watch the finger and blink. Letters — one tap, one enormous letter. Counting — every tap adds one. Ten and it starts again. Rainfall — shapes fall from the finger and pile up at the bottom. Mirror — one finger, four symmetrical trails. Keys — five colour-coded notes and no wrong ones. Spinner — a weighted disc. Flick it and it keeps going. Night — taps become stars, stars join up. Flat colour, hard edges, no characters, no story, no countdown pushing anything. A nursery drawn with a ruler. THE WAY OUT Hold both bottom corners for three seconds. Two adult hands, two far-apart targets, one deliberate wait. Small hands cannot do it by accident. Two thumbs, three seconds, you're out. For a hardware-level lock, Baby Mode walks you through switching on iOS Guided Access. Triple-click the side button and the phone physically will not leave the app until you type your passcode. Set it up once, in about forty seconds, and it stays set up. DECIDE IT ONCE Which toys — pick one, or pick all ten. Choose more than one and the playground changes itself every 1, 3 or 5 minutes, so a long session does not become the same screen for half an hour. Age band — Under 1, 1 to 2, or 2 to 4. Younger means slower, larger and quieter; the oldest band hears things named out loud. Session length — 5, 15 or 30 minutes. The screen ends it, so you don't have to. Sound — on or off, and always underneath the phone's own mute switch. There is a stats screen. It tells you which toy actually got reached for, across every toy a session passed through. It lives on the phone and goes nowhere. NO NETWORK Baby Mode makes zero network calls. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party code. Settings and tap counts sit in the app's own storage on the device and are deleted when the app is. There is nothing to collect and nowhere to send it. Which is also why it works on a plane, in a car park, at a wedding, and in the back of a taxi with one bar of signal. WHAT IT COSTS Baby Mode is free to download and opens with a 7-day free trial of everything. After the trial it needs the subscription. There is no cut-down free version — the trial is the free version, and it is the whole app. Baby Mode Full — $4.99 per month after a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends. The subscription renews monthly unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings, under your name, in Subscriptions. Any unused part of the free trial is forfeited if you subscribe before it ends. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://granttrudeau.github.io/babymode/privacy/ iPhone and iPad. iOS 17 or later. Works in aeroplane mode. The only app that makes an iPhone worse on purpose.

Screenshots

Tiny Tot Screen Lock4 screens
Baby Mode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tiny Tot Screen Lock at 15.0 against Baby Mode's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Tiny Tot Screen Lock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Baby Mode sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tiny Tot Screen Lock versus Baby Mode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Tot Screen LockBaby Mode
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTiny Tot Screen Lock, LLCGRANT STERLING TRUDEAU

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny Tot Screen Lock

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • English (U.S)$5.99
1 purchases

Baby Mode

Subscriptions1
  • Baby Mode Full7 Days trial$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Tiny Tot Screen Lock free?
Tiny Tot Screen Lock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Baby Mode free?
Baby Mode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny Tot Screen Lock or Baby Mode have ads?
Neither Tiny Tot Screen Lock nor Baby Mode shows ads.

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