Amazon Echo Show 5 Kids (newest model), Designed for kids, with parental controls, Includes 1 year of Amazon Kids+, Galaxy

Great for kids room
We bought this for our 5 year old daughter’s room. She wanted something she could listen to music on, and this was a great pick for it. It easy easy to setup and connect to the WiFi. She then connected to Spotify and plays all her favorite songs. She has also been using it for white noise when going to sleep.The display on it is great, but the best part is how easy it is to use with just your own words.

Wake up routine
Love the wake up routine this give my kid. Has an alarm, words of encouragement for the day, a joke, and some daily facts. Best part is it only does this on week days, and on holidays it asks if you want to turn off for one day.

[developer here] Terrible experience. Terrible product.
I’ve been using this device about a year now. This has to be, one of the worst technological purchases I’ve ever made. For starters, I bought this literally just to rotate pictures on my desk. I had no intention of actually using any smart features. Since literally day one, it always shows a black screen when it’s supposed to be a Photo from my Amazon Photos library. I tried setting it up on-device, and as well as in-app on iphone. I contacted support, we restored it several times, and Amazon even sent me a new one (even though it’s a software issue which a replacement would not fix the issue). I grew tired of seeing nothing but a black screen and the time/weather, so decided to use it for more ‘smart’ features, like showing me local news, gaming news, weather news, etc. 75% of the time, when you see a story, and say “alexa, whats the story”, it will literally give a textbook definition of “what a story is” instead of the actual piece it’s advertising. Some days as of the last 4 months, it ACTUALLY shows my pictures on the wallpaper cycle, most other days, it doesn’t. I think there’s inherently terrible about this ‘kids’ version. I simply bought it because it matches my space aesthetic for my room. It defaults to a ‘kids’ programming, and I think this is where the software branch falls off and has so many issues. One would think it would run just like an ‘adult one’ but there’s something clearly imbedded in this for ‘kids’ because during setup it forces you to use ‘kid mode’ until you change that option later. There’s been no rhyme or reason it never displays my Amazon Photos. I turn it off every night, and on every morning, and only about 2/30 days a month it actually works as advertised. The ONLY reason I’ve not completely returned this, is because it was $40 on black Friday 2023 and that’s only 1 hours worth of my time; and I would almost lose money packing it back up and driving to UPS to return.I’ve literally considered buying the ‘adult’ version and just swapping the back plate with the galaxy print just to see if the experience is better.Unless you have a kid that will never use it for a single thing other than playing Baby Shark or making fart sounds, this is the worst product you can buy for a smart home device.

Great home addition
This is the perfect addition to any household. Set up was super easy, connects to wifi easily and working with the alexa app makes it super easy. I love the drop in feature this offers, when I have to leave the house I can still see whats going on. I can still talk to my husband and kids and see the whole 1st floor where the echo is located. We can even check in on our frenchie when we are out. My kids love to call their aunt and Grandmother as well. This feature is easy to setup on the alexa app you can connect to your phone and allow only who you want your kids to call. They just say “Alexa call Grandma” they can even Video call which is what we really use it for. Of course you have the ability to ask Alexa questions too. My kids have used this for the tooth brushing song and love it . The Echo can tell bedtime stories and they can even use this to watch shows or play music. We haven’t explored all of the features yet but we look forward to it. The only upgrade I would like to see is that it can be charged and hold a charge, currently you need to keep this plugged in so its not easy to take into different rooms. I would like to be able to take these places like maybe out to dinner so My kids can watch a show, play a game while waiting for dinner or even to take on road trips. All and all we love this Echo show and I now want another for the other rooms in our home.