Say good-bye to long text messages and guesswork who is driving with GoKid, our award-winning carpooling app designed to make your life easier. Reduce your trips to school and after-school activities with the amazing scheduling tools that only Gokid has. Join thousands of families who trust GoKid to simplify their daily commutes, saving time and creating community.
Why GoKid?
Invitation-Based: Easily invite your trusted carpool group to join GoKid. If your school uses GoKid, you can also discover and connect with other parents at your school.
Stay Organized: Manage your carpool schedules effortlessly with shared carpool schedules, notifciations, calendars, and real-time updates.
Save Time & Money: Drastically reduce your time driving and save on gas by sharing rides with other families.
Safety First: Benefit from GPS directions, location tracking, driving reminders, and in-app messaging to keep your entire carpool safe and informed.
Getting Started is Easy:
1. Download GoKid and add your family members to your account.
2. If your school is using GoKid, you will be prompted to connect with your school and set your password.
3. Set up your first carpool in three easy steps and invite trusted families to share the rides.
Gokid will do the rest: It will organize your schedule and update you with real-time notifications for pickups, drop-offs, and optimized routes.
GoKid Pro: Upgrade for advanced features like location tracking, custom notifications, carpool history, and in-app chat. These features are included for our Gokid Connect school users.
GoKid Connect for schools: If your school is a GoKid customer, you can use the "Find Family" feature to connect with your school's families that live nearby. Plus, our chat functionality lets you communicate within your carpool group easily.
Available in the US and Canada, GoKid is the perfect solution for busy parents seeking a safe, cost-effective, and community-oriented transportation option for their kids. Simplify your life and make every school run a breeze with GoKid.
Download GoKid today and join the growing community of parents who are making school commutes smarter, safer, and more efficient. Happy carpooling!
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I’ve been using this app for 4 months now. It works pretty well and I’d recommend it to others. I’m giving it a 4 for a few reasons... it logs you out of the app and then you don’t get reminder notifications. The organizer of a carpool cannot remove one child who no longer participates; you have to either talk the uninterested/non-participating parent to take the time to log in and do it, or you have to delete the entire carpool and start all over because of that one child. It just shouldn’t be that way. Set up is also a bit cumbersome adding to the headache. Would be great if we could see where our drivers are, but I believe that functionality is forthcoming. All in all, it does its job. I just think there’s quite a bit of room for improvement. Considering there aren’t many carpool apps for children, GoKid has the opportunity to seriously corner the market and get way ahead if they will just make improvements like the ones I listed above.
Developer Response
Thanks so much for this review. Since our relaunch in August 2020 we've included some of your suggestions: 1) you are no longer automatically logged out of the app and so you will receive notifications! 2) live tracking of vehicles is now available as a premium feature. 3) changing a child's participation needs to be done by the participating family. But we will discuss your suggested changes with other families. Hope you will give Gokid another try! :) thanks so much and happy carpooling!
Great start - needs more options
epello
Just started using this app which I thing is a great organization tool however it would be helpful to add an option in the profile for how many kids can fit in our car. We have some people only able to take three kids while others can fit more. I’d also like to see the option of choosing the carpools myself instead of automatically being added. Just some feedback! Great start!
Developer Response
Thanks for that great feedback! Good news: We are planning to add the available seat numbers in the future. Regarding joining carpools - you should only be added to a carpool if you accept the invitation, it should never automatically add you. Do kindly get in touch with us at support@gokid.mobi if somehow this is not functioning correctly for you.
Has potential but not there now
CEO/MOMof4
Another mom suggested we use this to help with our 5 kid carpool. I’m not a fan this app, 4 months into use. It’s cumbersome. It provides the basic function of organizing a carpool for all to see. But even with the paid subscription (don’t pay for it! Adds nothing) - the format is a never ending scroll of days. You can’t just search for you or your child in the schedule. The buttons to select or skip a ride are easy to confuse. There’s no way to lay this out as a calendar, can only scroll. The physical appearance of the app doesn’t help with easy reference for your child’s name or patents (as the user, or the passenger, my name should be a different color). The other 4 moms feel it’s functional enough. I suspect they don’t dislike it quite as much as I do ( I have 4 kids, and can’t quickly pull up info at work without possibly misreading it; I’m looking for easier!). I feed a google spreadsheet is much easier & dynamic enough for our purposes. I’ll keep looking for a better alternative to introduce to the carpool. For now, I’m stuck with this!
Developer Response
Hi there. Thanks for your feedback on what you'd like to see improved in the app. I have a few tips that might help with regards to your frustrations. Please try using the filters at the top of the screen to quickly see the carpools you're driving or that specific children of yours are in. To help distinguish yourself and your kids from others, we really recommend adding pictures of yourself and your children in your profile (just go to the profile and tap your image or your kids image), then you'll easily be able to distinguish who is who in the carpool. If you prefer a monthly calendar view, I'd like to kindly suggest you check out our desktop version (my.gokid.mobi), it might meet your particular needs better. I hope that those tips help make the app work better for your needs - if they've helped please consider updating your review. Don't hesitate to get in touch at support@gokid.mobi with any other questions or feedback on our app. We're a small team but always working to make GoKid better for parents and kids.
So close!
Melissaj1993
This app has potential, but it’s hard to use and aspects of it are really not intuitive. Overall I’m pretty disappointed and it’s a shame because clearly a lot of effort has been invested in putting this app together. It’s a shame it really falls short.We had trouble initially because we didn’t realize we needed to set ourselves up as family groups. So now one kid is duplicated because both his parents input his name. When I look at the details of the carpool, there are six adults listed (I have no idea how!), but there are really only four of us. I don’t know how to delete the two adults that are duplicated. So we have a carpool with three kids listed when there are only two and six adults listed when there are only four.It also seems like you can change your child’s pickup location for just a particular day, but that’s not the case. If you change it for one day, the app changes it for the whole series. So if a child is at one parent’s house one day and you want to change his pickup location just for that day, you can’t. The app will change it for the entire series. I thought I might work around this by adding a note to each individual day when the child will be at the other parent’s house, so I upgraded to the pro version to be able to do that. No luck there either. If you try to add a note to just one day, that same message populates on every single day, which is ridiculous. Why would I want the exact same message to appear on every single day??? The way the app is set up is very misleading because it truly looks like the message you add will only be connected to that day. And if you want to delete the message once you realize that’s what’s happening? No luck there either. There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete chats.There’s also no support offered that I can see (if you’re using the app as a parent and are not connected to a particular school). It does appear that there’s support if you’re using the app through a school. I would gladly pay for a monthly subscription if this app worked in a more sensible way. Or if I had access to any support at all. As it is, it’s just frustrating.
General Bug Fixes and Improvements
Version 5.0.0
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Information
Seller
GoKid Corp.
Size
74.9 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
4+
This app has an age rating of 4+ with content restrictions. Some content may be rated higher, but access is managed by the developer through in-app controls.
