PuffinCall
Your child taps a face. The person appears.
That's the whole app. PuffinCall turns a spare Android phone into something a two-year-old can actually use: a screen of familiar faces, and nothing else.
Free forever — 20 minutes of talk time every month. No card needed.
Video for the long calls. Voice for "I'm ready to be picked up."
Grandma
Grandpa
Papa
Mama
Ah Ma
Auntie SuHanding a child a normal phone means handing them the whole internet.
Small children want to talk to the people who love them, long before they can read a name or navigate a phone. This is the other option.
Nothing else on the phone
No browser. No videos. No games. No app store. The phone opens on the faces and stays there.
Only people you approve
No dialler, no contact search, no way for an unknown number to reach the device. Ever.
No reading required
Faces, not names. Huge buttons, because small fingers are imprecise. One thing to tap per screen.
Four steps, once.
You probably already have the phone. It's in a drawer.
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Set it up on a spare Android phone
Anything running Android 8.0 or newer. It becomes the child's phone.
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Add up to 6 people
Take a photo of each one. That photo is the button your child presses.
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Send them a link
One tap installs the app and connects them. No account, no password, nothing to remember.
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Hand your child the phone
They tap a face and the call starts. No unlocking, no menus.
Grandparents call too — and they call more often.
Their side is just as simple: one photo, one button. Your child taps once to answer.
The phone never picks up by itself. Someone presses accept, on both sides, every time. There is no auto-answer setting, because a camera should not open on a child's device without a person choosing it.
- Quiet hours, so it won't ring at bedtime.
- A wait time between calls, if you want one.
- Lock the phone to this app, so your child can't reach anything else.
- Everything behind a PIN — settings, contacts and payments.
- Never an error message. If nobody answers, a friendly koala explains.
We never record a call. Not ever, not anywhere.
Video and audio travel directly between the two phones. They do not pass through our servers, and no copy is kept anywhere.
No ads, no analytics
The app contains no advertising SDK, no analytics SDK, and no third-party tracker of any kind.
First name and a photo
That's all we hold about your child. No surname, no birthday, no location, no device identifier.
Delete it all, any time
One button in settings removes the family, the photos, the contacts and the call history. Permanently.
Free forever. Plus is S$2.98 a month.
Minutes are talk time — a 10-minute call uses 10 minutes. We don't double-count, and we never hang up on a child mid-call.
Free
S$0
Always free. No card needed.
- 20 minutes a month, video or voice
- Up to 6 people
- Calls in and out
- Quiet hours
Plus
S$2.98 /month
Cancel any time through Google Play.
- 60 video minutes, unused roll over
- 300 voice minutes for the quick ones
- Cooldown timer + all controls
- Missed-call alerts to family
- Every child in the family, and more than one phone each
Find the spare phone. That's the hard part.
Setup takes about ten minutes, and the grandparent's side takes one tap.
Made in Singapore, for families anywhere.