Kid Pickup vs Carpool Kids vs GoKid
Carpool Kids and GoKid are built for carpools: families taking turns driving. Kid Pickup is built for your own circle: partners, grandparents, sitters and neighbors taking on pickups.
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Carpool Kids
A carpool and family calendar app for driving rotations.
What it does well
- Built for carpools: any number of drivers and riders per carpool.
- Well rated: 4.8 on 9,000+ App Store ratings.
- Inexpensive: yearly Pro plans at $14.99 or $24.99.
Where it stops
- It’s organized around carpools between families. If most of your help is your own circle (grandparents, a sitter, a neighbor), that’s a different job.
GoKid
A carpool organizer, with a school carpool program called GoKid Connect.
What it does well
- A school-wide carpool program that a school can run for every family.
- Carpool scheduling between families.
Where it stops
- Its school program is priced for schools, from $1,999 a year for a small school.
What Kid Pickup does instead
- Built around your circle rather than a carpool group.
- Open pickups are marked, and parents hear 24 hours, 3 hours and 2 hours ahead if nobody has one.
- Request Help sends everyone a “Can you help?” with your note.
- Works at every school, rink and studio, with no school sign-up.
Who should pick which
Choose Carpool Kids for a driving rotation between families. Look at GoKid if your school wants to run a carpool program.
Choose Kid Pickup if your pickups are mostly covered by your own people and you want to know someone’s said yes.
Pricing side by side
| App | Price | App Store rating |
|---|---|---|
| Carpool Kids | Pro Individual $14.99/yr or $2.99/mo; Pro Family $24.99/yr or $4.99/mo. | 4.8 on 9,000+ ratings |
| GoKid | School program (GoKid Connect) from $1,999 a year for schools under 200 students. | 4.3 on 608 ratings |
| Kid Pickup | Family $59.99/yr or $5.99/mo. Premium $9.99/mo or $119.99/yr. One price per family. 14-day free trial. | 5.0 on 1 rating (Canada store) |
Prices in US dollars, as of September 2026. App Store prices are shown in your local currency.
Sources
Every fact about another app on this page comes from these pages, checked September 2026. If something’s changed, tell us at hello@kidpickup.com and we’ll fix it.
Questions parents ask
Is Kid Pickup a carpool app?
Not really. It doesn’t plan driving rotations between families. It makes sure each of your pickups has someone from your circle who said yes.