Maily wants to be your child's first email app
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Maily is an iPad app which gives children from the age of four a simple and secure email account which is managed and monitored by their parents
Maily gives kids five tools - writing pencils, paint brushes, photos, backgrounds and stamps - to create visual emails
Emails can be set to require approval before they are sent or received, with parents being sent a copy to check first
Children using Maily select who they want to email by tapping on an image of their face with the name which they use to refer to you, whether that's Dad, Daddy or Papa.
Children accounts on Maily only have the ability to send and receive emails from contacts added by their parents
Maily emails arrive in a normal inbox and users can then reply using the the Maily Dashboard to respond in a child-friendly and visual manner
With Maily parents are completely in charge of who their children communicate with, and how
While the brushes let children create digital artworks, the pencils give little ones the opportunity to write things with their fingers
Maily features more than 30 backgrounds, ranging from paper effects to images of space rockets
With bright colors, Maily emails do not resemble boring corporate emails
While the brushes let children create digital artworks, the pencils give little ones the opportunity to write things with their fingers
Maily features more than 30 stamps (think planes, monsters and dogs) to ensure messages retain a kiddie feel
After being logged in to the Maily app, children use a pop-up menu to navigate its various tools
The Maily dashboard gives adults the option to select an image or animation and then add their email text
While the brushes let children create digital artworks, the pencils give little ones the opportunity to write things with their fingers
The iPad camera can also be used to insert photos into Maily emails
Article Summary
At what age should a child have an email address of their own? It's a difficult question to answer ... sure it would be nice for kids to be able to send Gran a picture they've drawn, but would they know not to trust that Nigerian prince and his offers of riches? Well, Maily might be the solution. It's an iPad app which gives children from the age of four a simple and secure email account which is managed and monitored by their parents.
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