Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm fairly surprised that Amazon have put this forward given the limitations and what's available on other devices. Pros: 1- Very lightweight 2- Nice screen (colors sharp) 3- Break/replace policy is cool. Cons: 1- Amazon Freetime. - If you're expecting a huge amount available from the app store, you'd be completely wrong. The store is limited. Highly limited. Unless Amazon have partnered in some way, it's likely your favorite games/apps for your kids won't be on there. - YouTube Kids is NOT available because Google own it. There's a couple pretend YTKids apps there and they are rubbish. This is a deal breaker for us. - Settings - When you set up your child's profile, you input your child's age and supposedly the store will only show age-related options. Except, after setting the age limitation on the tablet at age 8, my son was shown the Washington Post app, among others which are simply inappropriate. - Scrolling through looking for apps is a monumental pain in the rear. There's not a way to search from within the kid's profile, instead you have to scroll endlessly, hoping you stumble upon what you were looking for. - As a parent, i don't want apps being shown to my child unless I approve them. Too many (see above) apps are visible that I don't want him to see. There's also no way to see an app's home screen to explain what the app is. If you tap on an app, it automatically installs it. Again, oh heck no! - Given the limited apps on Freetime, we installed Google Play store. Our hope was to bypass Freetime completely and just use the OS to run Kids Play (well loved parental control app on android). Unfortunately, Amazon have specifically kneecapped Kids Play outside of Freetime. So in essence, even if you have other alternatives, you can't use THIS device to utilize your options. You are forced to use FreeTime. Overall, we wanted to love this device but the limited apps and lack of thoughtful parental controls (seriously, do any of the devs not have kids??) resulted that we returned this a few days after trying it out.