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PlayKids Learning Games

Educational Videos for Kids

SandBox Group
No findings published
App Store rating4.3★19.3K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size216 MBiPhone download
CategoryEducation
DeveloperSandBox Group

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 13 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 7.0.00 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-13 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 7.0.01, updated 2026-10-08.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 7.0.00, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Learning games, educational videos and creative activities for kids aged 0-8. 100% ad-free, works offline, trusted by over 70 million families since 2014.

PlayKids Learning brings 18,000+ videos and 150+ learning games into one safe, ad-free app.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Hard to cancel

One source only

Hard to cancel: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (3.0% of 502 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.

Open evidence

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 502 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

502 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

502 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Hard to cancel

Shown, not confirmed

MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED — FIRST OF ALL WHEN I WAS LIKE 5-6 YEARS OLD I JUST PLAYING AROUND AND FIRST OF ALL I HAD AN AD THAT I COULDNT CANCEL A SUBCRIBE BUTTON POPPED OUT OF NOWHERE AND THEY HAD TO TEST MY ACCOUNT BY USING A PHONE NUMBER…

1★ · App Store · 2022-08-24

Will not cancel!!!! — Some how I am being charged 10$ a month on my PHONE BILL for this thing I have never heard of! I’ve tried to cancel this multiple times with no luck and no response from “support”

1★ · App Store · 2020-09-01

Scam! Kid accidentally clicked, now we can’t cancel! — My daughter accidentally clicked on this app, and I begin charging us 9.99 per month. We have called their phone numbers, gone through the whole phone system, sat on hold, go onto the…

1★ · App Store · 2020-08-13

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

Nostalgia — I really liked the old version of the game and used to play it all the time especially Voxela, sad to see it’s behind a paywall. The train was a really good part of it though and you should really bring back the one mini game…

5★ · App Store · 2026-08-13

Make it free pls — JUST MAKE EVERYTHING FRE3 THE ONLY THING YOU SHOULD MAKE COST MONEY IS DONATIONS NOT EVERYTHING BEING LOCKED MAKE IT FREE MAKE IT FR33!! 👺👺👺👹👹👹👹😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-22

I WANT THE OLD ONE BACK!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 — Pls read this. I used to play this game all the time and it was really fun. But then a major update came along and ruined EVERYTHING. Almost everything I loved was locked behind a paywall, and I…

2★ · App Store · 2025-02-22

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 13 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 7.0.00 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-13 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 7.0.01, updated 2026-10-08.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 7.0.00, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 7.0.01 · 2026-10-08
Small bug corrections and app improvements

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 7.0.01 · 2026-10-08
Small bug corrections and app improvements
Version 7.0.00 · 2026-10-03
Small bug corrections and app improvements
Version 6.0.80 · 2026-09-01
Small bug corrections and app improvements

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
playkids-learning-games
Assessment date
13 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
502
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-13 from 502 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-13 Version analyzed: 7.0.003 independent signals502 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.25 ★ · 19,328 ratings
Version
7.0.01
Updated
8 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
216 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
SandBox Group
Category
Education
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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