Kidlo Coding
Tap a star to rate
What Kidlo Coding is
Kidlo Coding is a coding game app for children from KidloLand, the maker of a wider family of kids' apps. Instead of lessons or videos, it teaches the first ideas of programming through short puzzle games: a child gives a character a series of instructions, watches it carry them out, and fixes the plan when it goes wrong. The site's own line is that "Kidlo Coding teaches essential coding concepts to your kids & prepares them for their better future," and its description invites families to "Learn Programming for kids - the fun way!"
The games run in a web browser on kidlocoding.com, and the site's description adds that the app can be downloaded "on Apple Store, Google-play and Amazon." The subscription page says the product is "Available on All Platforms." It is a learner product in the plainest sense: a parent or teacher hands a child the games, and the child plays through them alone.
How the games teach coding
The home page organizes the games by the concept each one practices, which makes the catalog read like a short curriculum.
Basic coding comes first, with Ambulance Ride, Alien Escape, Rabbit Run, Stone Age Man and Ice Cream Truck. This is the entry point of the catalog.
Sequences is the largest group of coding games: Connect The Dots, Pop The Balloon, Push The Block, Garbage Truck, Paint The Squares, Helicopter Landing, Dress-Up, Build Your House, Connect Diagonally, Tiny Tank, Carrot Chase, Little Fire Truck, Track Builder, Smoothie Maker and Chomp The Fruits. Each one is a puzzle where the order of the steps decides whether the character reaches its goal.
Loops reuses Connect The Dots, Pop The Balloon, Chomp The Fruits, Garbage Truck, Paint The Squares, Little Fire Truck, Connect Diagonally and Track Builder with a new rule. The Connect Diagonally page explains the idea in a child's terms: "You won't need to write the same code over and over. Just use the loop button to run your code multiple times. Voila! You will connect the dots much faster!" The loop version of Connect The Dots asks players to "use loops to join the dots faster!"
Debugging uses Connect The Dots, Chomp The Fruits, Garbage Truck, Paint The Squares and Little Fire Truck. Instead of building a solution, the child starts from someone else's: "Observe the given code and fix the errors."
Functions returns to the same boards, and so does Advanced, where, in the words of the advanced Connect The Dots page, players "use functions and/or loops." The home page also has a Co-ordinates heading.
Kidlo Coding takes a handful of familiar game scenes (dots to connect, balloons to pop, a garbage truck to route, squares to paint) and replays each one under a new concept. A child who has learned the controls of Connect The Dots in its sequence form meets the same board again with a loop button, then with a bug to find, then with functions. Each game page offers "MORE SIMILAR GAMES" for the same concept, so a child who enjoys one loop puzzle can move straight to the next.
Math games
The app is not only about code. A separate Math Games section lists titles built around addition and subtraction: Basket Ball Addition and Subtraction, Arctic Penguin, Color By Addition and Subtraction, Monster Truck Addition, Run Bunny Addition and Subtraction, Monster Brick Addition and Subtraction, Rainy Day Addition and Subtraction, Bubble Shoot Addition and Subtraction, and Tasty Candies Addition and Subtraction. For a parent, that means the same site offers early arithmetic practice alongside early programming, in the same playful format.
What a subscription buys
The subscribe page sells one product: "Get 1 Year Access For Just US $39.99." It states that "This is a non auto-renewing subscription," so the family pays once for the year and is not charged again automatically. The page lists what the pass includes:
- "Access to 50+ games with 1000+ levels"
- games with basic and advanced coding concepts
- "Step by step tutorials to follow."
- "Uninterrupted play time. No ads!"
The game pages show what the pass changes in practice. Each one has a "Play FullScreen" button and a prompt to "Sign up for a Subscription Plan to play your favorite games in Fullscreen mode," with a "Login to Play" link for anyone who already has an active subscription. The home page button for the pass reads "Subscribe Now". The subscribe page also says the app is a winner of multiple academic awards.
Questions and feedback go to the company by email, according to the subscribe page, which also links a Refund Policy. The site's footer has Contact Us, Terms Of Services and Privacy Policy pages alongside it.
Beyond the app
Two related products appear on the home page. The first is a "Fun & Easy Coding Workbook For Kids!", described as "Fun, screen-free activities to build coding skills through play! No computer needed – just logic, play & learning." That gives a family a paper option for the same ideas away from a device. The second is the KidloLand+ Kids Pass, which the page describes as "26+ Award-winning Apps for Kids that gives meaningful & guilt-free screen-time, designed by experts recommended by 600+ mom influencers!"
Who it suits
Kidlo Coding suits parents of young children who want a first, playful contact with programming ideas, without a teacher, a schedule or any setup. The concept-by-concept layout gives a clear order to work through, from basic commands and sequences to loops, debugging and functions, and the repeated game scenes mean a child spends time on the idea rather than on learning new controls each time. The one-year pass at US $39.99, with no automatic renewal, is a simple purchase to make and an easy one to walk away from. Teachers looking for short, self-contained activities that each practice one concept can use the categories the same way.
It is a first step rather than a full course. The games are puzzles on a board, built around one concept at a time, so a child who outgrows them will need a different tool to move on to building their own projects or typing code. There is no teacher or live class, so a child who gets stuck relies on the step by step tutorials or on a parent.