For kids & family apps
Monetize the family, not the child.
Kids apps can’t run behavioral ads — so family subscriptions and one-time unlocks are the only compliant way to earn. CashSDK ships both from one integration, always behind a parental gate, with validated receipts and zero third-party tracking. Built for Apple’s Kids Category and Google Play Families.
Family subscriptions · one-time unlocks · parental gate — one SDK, both stores.
Parental gate
Ask a grown-up to continue
This keeps purchases safely behind a parent — an App Store Kids Category requirement.
What is
7 × 4 ?
21
28
32
…or press and hold for 3 seconds
Continue to purchase
No behavioral ads · No third-party tracking
How the category prices — compliantly
Subscriptions and one-time unlocks, always behind a gate.
Because the Kids Category bans behavioral ads and third-party tracking, the top learning and play apps earn two ways: recurring family subscriptions and buy-once unlocks — with every purchase reached through a parental gate. Here is how the category really charges.
Recurring
Family subscriptions
The revenue base for learning apps: one account covering several kids, with annual billed up front to lock in the year.
- ABCmouse ~$14.99 / mo or ~$45–60 / yr, up to 3 kids
- Lingokids ~$14.99 / mo; Sago Mini World $6.99 / mo · $59.99 / yr
- HOMER $7.99 / mo · $59.99 / yr; free trials are the norm
- Annual is featured — it roughly halves the effective monthly
ABCmouse · Lingokids · Sago Mini · HOMER
One-time
Unlocks & paid apps
Buy-once content instead of a subscription — packs bought inside a free app, or a premium app that costs money up front and shows no ads.
- Toca Boca World: free base, one-time IAP unlocks ~$1–6
- Originator’s Endless Alphabet: paid app ~$8.99, no ads, no IAP
- Pok Pok: $3.99 / mo, $29.99 / yr, or a $49.99 lifetime unlock
- Classic Toca Life apps sold as one-time ~$3.99 purchases
Toca Boca · Originator · Pok Pok
Compliance
Gate it, don’t ad-target it
The Kids Category bans the behavioral-ad playbook, so purchases sit behind a parental gate and revenue comes from IAP — not from tracking children.
- Apple §1.3: purchases & link-outs must sit behind a parental gate
- No third-party behavioral ads or trackers to kids (Apple + Google)
- Google Play Families: no interest-based ads, certified ad SDKs only
- COPPA: no persistent identifiers (IDFA / AAID) tied to children
Khan Academy Kids · Duolingo ABC · PBS Kids (free, no ads)
Market context only. Prices are representative US list prices for 2025–26 and vary by region, plan length, and promotion; app names are trademarks of their owners and are cited to describe the category, not affiliation. Compliance rules are quoted from Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines §1.3 and Google Play’s Families policy — see the research notes co-located with this page.
Paywall shapes
The gate and every paywall, rendered from our own components.
A parental gate, a family subscription, a one-time pack unlock, and a lifetime unlock — the same primitives, themed for kids and reached through the gate. These are CashSDK’s unbranded chrome, never a copy of any app’s screen.
Parental gate
Ask a grown-up to continue
This keeps purchases safely behind a parent — an App Store Kids Category requirement.
What is
7 × 4 ?
21
28
32
…or press and hold for 3 seconds
Continue to purchase
No behavioral ads · No third-party tracking
Parental gate
An adult-level task stands in front of every purchase — the Kids Category convention, built in.
Parent-approved
Family plan
Unlock the full learning library
1,000+ lessons, books & games
Up to 3 kids on one account
Progress reports for grown-ups
No ads — ever
YearlyBEST VALUE
/ yr · just $5.00 a month
$59.99
6 months
$5.83 / mo
$34.99
Monthly
billed monthly
$9.99
Start free trial
Cancel anytime · Purchase behind a parental gate
Family subscription
One account for the whole family, annual featured — the model ABCmouse, Lingokids, and Sago Mini all use.
Parent-approved
Add to your world
Unlock new places to play
Buy once, keep forever — new rooms, characters, and outfits.
Everything bundleBEST VALUE
all packs · one-time
Home & pets pack
one-time · no ads
Character pack
one-time · no ads
Unlock pack
One-time purchase · Behind a parental gate
One-time unlock
Buy a room, a pack, or a character once and keep it forever — the Toca Boca World shape, no subscription.
Parent-approved
One-time unlock
Own it forever, no subscription
One payment unlocks every letter, word, and puzzle. No ads, no IAP.
Lifetime · whole familyMOST POPULAR
one-time · every future update
Full app unlock
one-time · this app
Restore purchase
already bought it?
Unlock forever
One-time purchase · Behind a parental gate
Lifetime unlock
A single payment unlocks the whole app for good — the premium paid-app model, ad-free.
Why CashSDK fits kids & family
Compliance-native billing for the Kids Category.
Paywalls, experiments, one-time unlocks, and validated receipts — the pieces a family app needs to charge without ads, without a receipt server, and without ever tracking a child.
Paywalls you A/B over the air
Design the family-plan upgrade in the dashboard, keep it behind the parental gate, and change copy, plans, and price for any cohort — no app release, no ad tech.
Paywall canvasEditing · live
Unlimited projects
Advanced analytics
Annual · $59.99SAVE 40%
Blocks
Hero image
Headline
Feature list
Plan picker
Experiment on price & copy
Run holdouts on the family paywall and measure trial-to-paid conversion and revenue per install — never behavioral profiling of kids.
Learn moreOne-time unlocks
Sell content packs and lifetime unlocks as durable purchases, granted server-side so a paid unlock can’t be replayed or lost on reinstall.
Learn moreValidated receipts, no tracking
Every Apple and Google receipt is verified server-side into a clean entitlement — no receipt server, no IDFA or AAID, nothing sent to third parties.
Learn moreLocalized pricing, both stores
One catalog prices in local currency across the App Store and Google Play, with free trials and intro offers honored natively.
Built for the Kids Category
Earn compliantly, from one integration.
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Compliant models: subscriptions & one-time unlocks
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iOS, Android, React Native & Flutter
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Behavioral ads · trackers · receipt servers
Ship a kids paywall you can defend in review
Family subscriptions, one-time unlocks, a built-in parental gate, validated receipts, and zero third-party tracking — in one SDK. Start free and ship your first paywall this afternoon.