Kid Pickup: School & Carpool
Joel Wood Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Kid Pickup: School & Carpool is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Joel Wood. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 17, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 40 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 17
- 2026 · v1.6.1
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About Kid Pickup: School & Carpool
Your family’s home base, built around one question: who’s getting the kids today? Post a pickup or drop-off. Your people see it: your partner, the grandparents, the sitter, a neighbour. One of them says “I’ve got it,” and everyone knows. If nobody has, the app nudges you while there’s still time. Around the pickups sits the rest of your family’s week: every activity on one calendar, a private feed for news and photos, and a chat for everyone who helps. HOW IT WORKS • Add a pickup or drop-off in seconds: type it as a sentence, say it, or fill in the form • Make it repeat, and it keeps going for as long as you need • Leave it open for anyone in your circle, or ask one person by name • They tap “I’ll do it” or “Can’t make it”, right from the notification • One tap says yes to every Tuesday WHEN NOBODY HAS IT • Parents get a nudge the day before, again three hours out, and again at two • Open pickups stand out on the calendar until someone takes them • Whoever’s going gets a reminder before it’s time to leave • See who has opened a pickup, and get a heads-up if a notification didn’t reach someone’s phone • Prefer email? Turn it on and you get an email too when you’re asked to do a pickup, or when one still needs someone • Add your work hours and see when an open pickup lands in your shift YOUR FAMILY’S HOME • A private feed for the whole family: share a photo or a quick update, comment and react • Every pickup update lands there too, with a badge saying where it stands: claimed, done, or still open • Today’s pickups at the top, with who has each one • Family chat, plus private chats with just some of the family • Day, week and month calendars, and a link that puts your pickups in Apple, Google or Outlook Calendar FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HELP • Invite grandparents, nannies, sitters, friends and neighbours, each with their own role • Grandparents see the week; a sitter sees only the pickups that need someone and their own. You can change that for anyone • You decide what each parent or guardian can change: any pickup, only their own, or none • No app? Send a link and they can take a pickup with no account • Give the drop-off to one person and the pick-up to another • Two cars or two kids? A pickup can need more than one person FOR EVERY KIND OF FAMILY Two working parents. Co-parents across two homes. A single parent with a village. Grandparents who do the Wednesday run. If more than one person gets your kids, Kid Pickup is for you. ALSO INSIDE • An avatar for every child and grown-up, and posts on the feed on a child’s behalf • Saved places, emergency contacts and directions • Call off one day of a repeating pickup for a sick day, and put it back later • Dark mode PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Kid Pickup never asks for your location • Only the people you invite can see your family • Photos stay within your family • No ads, and we don’t sell your data PREMIUM • Unlimited children, and up to 8 parents, guardians and helpers • An AI assistant that answers questions about your next two weeks • A chat thread on every pickup PLANS Try Kid Pickup free for 14 days, with no payment needed to start. Then choose: • Family: up to 2 children, you and 1 other parent or guardian, and 3 helpers • Premium: unlimited children, up to 8 people, the AI assistant and pickup threads One subscription covers your whole circle. Grandparents and sitters never pay. Subscriptions renew automatically through your Apple ID unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Sign in with Apple, Google or email. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://kidpickup.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://kidpickup.com/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.6.1 · Updated October 17, 2026
Photos. A post can now carry up to three photos, laid out on the card, and you can take one with the camera without leaving the composer: tap the camera, or choose from your library. Everything in the bell. The bell at the top right now lists posts and comments beside the pickup updates, newest first, so there is one place to see what happened. Tap one to open the post. Posts never light the Events dot: that still counts only pickups that need something from you. A number on the app icon. The badge on the icon is the same count as the dot on the Events tab: unread news about a pickup that still needs something. It comes down as you read, and it never counts posts or chat. Invitations that get through. Invite someone and the app offers to share the link yourself, by text or any app, as well as sending the email. The email now comes from Kid Pickup with your name on it, and a reply goes to you. If an invitation hasn’t been opened a day later, you get one nudge with the same two options.
App privacy
The developer, Joel Wood, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Financial Info: Payment Info
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Emails or Text Messages, Customer Support, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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