Planning Center Check vs KidCheck Admin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planning Center Check
This app streamlines the process of checking children and volunteers into church events. It offers different station types for manual, self-service, or roster-based check-ins, ensuring safe and efficient attendance tracking.
- Manned check-in station
- Self-service check-in station
- Roster check-in station
- Safe and quick attendance tracking
- Volunteer check-in
- Child check-in
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With your subscription to Planning Center Check-Ins, your church administrators have access to three different kinds of stations through this app. - A MANNED station is run by a volunteer who manually checks each child in by name. - A SELF station is a device where regular attendees can quickly check in their children by themselves. - A ROSTER station is manned by a volunteer who checks children off of a class roster as they arrive at their classrooms. Check-Ins is an application designed to help you safely and quickly check kids or volunteers into classrooms and track attendance for any event.
KidCheck Admin
Manage children and workers checked into your organization. View guardian information, contact them, and track check-ins. Securely manage attendance and provide peace of mind for parents and staff.
- View child and worker information
- Guardian contact and authorization management
- Check-in and room capacity tracking
- Child location management and alerts
- Security features with allergy warnings
- Attendance tracking and reporting
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The KidCheck Admin Console is a convenient way to view and manage the children and workers that are currently checked in to your organization. Features include: - View children and worker information - See a child's authorized and unauthorized guardians - Contact a guardian via text message or call - View graphs of check-ins and room capacities - Move children to new locations, confirm arrivals, and issue pickup alerts KidCheck provides secure children’s check-in systems for churches, fitness centers, activity centers, and child care organizations. KidCheck’s easy-to-use children’s check-in software helps keep children safe, streamline the check-in process, easily track attendance, and provide peace-of-mind with a positive parent and visitor experience. Check-in features for organizations include: - Extensive security features including allergy and medical warnings - Comprehensive reporting, attendance tracking, and ratio trending - Web based solution with a simple and intuitive interface - Fast check-in for visiting or existing families - Ability to print child name labels and guardian receipts - Built-in parent communication tools - Free personal support and training including Sunday mornings Benefits for parents include: - Free – no cost to set up a KidCheck account - Designate who is and is not authorized to pick up children - Upload photos of children and guardians for added security - Add medical and allergy alerts and notes - Text message notifications at check-in and check-out, or in case of emergency - Check-in account can be used at any facility using KidCheck
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: KidCheck Admin at every 4 days against Planning Center Check's every 3 weeks. KidCheck Admin also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Planning Center Check's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 9). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Planning Center Check against 3.8 for KidCheck Admin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planning Center Check has 66 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Planning Center Check ships an update every 3 weeks, KidCheck Admin every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planning Center Check | KidCheck Admin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (66 ratings) — better | 3.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ministry Centered Technologies | KidCheck |
Customer experience
Planning Center Check
KidCheck Admin
In-app purchases
Planning Center Check
No in-app purchases
KidCheck Admin
No in-app purchases
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