Peko Pal

Help & Guide

About Peko Pal

  • What is Peko Pal?

    What Peko Pal is, what a child can do with it, what ages it suits, and what you need to use one.

  • Is Peko Pal safe for kids?

    How Peko Pal handles the microphone, who your child can talk to, what is saved from conversations and for how long, and what parents control.

  • How Peko Pal's AI works

    What the AI on Peko Pal does, how a child uses it, and the settings parents use to steer it, limit it and review it.

  • Peko Pal vs a phone or tablet

    How Peko Pal differs from giving a child a phone or tablet - no screen, approved contacts only, optional AI with parent rules, and no ads.

Getting Started

  • Meet your Peko Pal

    What a Peko Pal is, what it can do, and how this guide works.

  • Use Peko Pal without a device

    How your child can chat with friends who own a Peko Pal using only the Peko Pal app, what still needs a Peko Pal, and how adding one later keeps their friends.

  • Set up your Peko Pal

    Pairing a new Peko Pal with the app - turning it on, pairing mode, connecting to Wi-Fi, and what happens next.

  • Connecting your Peko Pal to WiFi

    How to get your Peko Pal online, what it does day to day, and how to fix common WiFi problems.

  • Friends and voice messages

    How friends get approved, how your child sends and hears voice messages, and what calls need.

Using Your Peko Pal

  • Getting around your Peko Pal

    How the buttons work — choosing an app, moving around inside it, and turning the device on and off.

  • Volume and brightness

    Turning the sound up and down, the ceiling you set as a parent, and how bright the logo gets.

  • What the glowing logo means

    The light on the front is how a screenless device tells you what it's doing — here's the whole vocabulary.

  • Apps — what's on your Peko Pal, and adding more

    How apps get onto the device, where your child finds them, and how to add or remove them.

  • Power, battery and charging

    Turning it on and off, how the battery behaves, when it sleeps, how it checks for messages while off, and how to charge it.

  • Pictures your child makes with Peko

    Your child can ask Peko to make any picture, like a coloring sheet, a calendar or a scene, and print it. How pictures are made, the safety settings you control, and how to see or delete them.

  • Printing from your Peko Pal

    How your child can print a picture or a story on your home printer just by asking Peko, which printers work, how to ask for a paper size, and what to do if nothing prints.

Apps & Features

  • Lessons — teaching your child at their level

    Give Peko a topic and a goal, and it works out what your child already understands before it teaches anything. Here's how to set one up and how to read their progress.

  • Glowlight

    How to use the Glowlight app — its seven light modes, changing brightness, turning the light off and on, and what it remembers.

  • Night Mode

    How to use Night Mode, the bedtime nightlight with soft white or brown noise, including what each button does and how to change the light color and sound.

  • Podcasts

    How to play, pause, skip and rewind episodes in the Podcasts app, how it remembers where your child stopped, and how a parent picks which episodes are on the device.

  • Radio

    How to use the Radio app on the Pal — playing and pausing a station, browsing stations with up and down, what it announces, and how a parent chooses the station lineup.

  • How to Use Peko

    How the spoken walkthrough app works — what its ten topics cover, how to move between them, replay one, and when it opens by itself.

Privacy & Safety

Troubleshooting