1 Can my child…?
The questions parents ask most, answered in one word and then one sentence.
No Talk to strangers?
CrewPlay has no chat, messaging, friends lists or online matchmaking. The only other players are the people holding the same phone, or the phones in a Crew Link room on your own Wi-Fi.
Four places See adverts?
In four places. When a match ends, at most one full-screen ad from Google before the podium; when somebody leaves a game part-way, at most one as they go, never in the game’s first half-minute — the two together no more than once a minute; while playing Ludo or Carrom Battle, a banner under the board; and on the podium, a short video that doubles the coins the match paid, which plays only if somebody taps to watch it. Google’s ads are limited to ones suitable for a family audience. When Google has none before the podium or under the board, CrewPlay shows one of our own apps instead, which collects nothing. There are no ads in the first two minutes after CrewPlay is first opened, and none in a Crew Link room. A child who would rather not watch the video simply keeps the coins they won. CrewPlay Premium removes the full-screen ads, the banners and our own promotions for good on the account that owns it; the coin double stays a video anybody can choose. See the Privacy Policy, section 8.
No Share their location?
CrewPlay never asks for location. The permissions it can ask for, Nearby devices for Crew Link (declared never for location) and notifications for game-night reminders and new-version notes, have nothing to do with where anybody is.
Only with you Spend money?
Every purchase goes through the Google Play checkout of the account on the phone. Turn on purchase authentication (section 4) and nothing can be bought without your password or fingerprint.
Two kinds Get notifications?
Game-night reminders only if somebody on the phone says yes to them, which CrewPlay asks about after a first game. Then there is at most one a day, never late at night, and none after a month without playing, each a cheery note from one of the bots or the crew. Apart from them, one note each time a new version of CrewPlay is out, in the daytime and never while the app is open; on Android 13 and later Android asks first. Settings → Playing → Game-night reminders and Settings → About → New-version notes turn each off, and so does Android’s own notification settings.
Yes Play with no internet?
Every game works offline: on a trip, in the car, with no signal at all.
By nickname Be seen by others?
Only by the players in their match. On a shared Wi-Fi network, other people with CrewPlay open can see a room’s host nickname, so use your own hotspot and a nickname rather than a full name.
2 What CrewPlay knows about your child
Only a nickname, a character and some scores, and all of it stays on your phone.
A child’s player is a nickname (up to twelve characters), a character and colour, their scores and coins, and a random ID that keeps those together. It is stored only on your phone. We never receive it, and nothing identifies your child to us or to anybody else.
To remove it, delete the player in the Party tab, or use Settings → Your data → Reset everything. We recommend nicknames rather than full names.
3 Crew Link at home
Crew Link connects phones on the same Wi-Fi. Use your own hotspot or home network, and it stays in the family.
- Phones connect directly to each other on the local network; nothing goes to the internet.
- Anybody on the same Wi-Fi with CrewPlay open can see that a room exists and the host’s nickname, so avoid public Wi-Fi for children’s games.
- On Android 13 and later, the first time Crew Link is used it asks for Nearby devices. It is needed only to find other phones in the room.
4 Purchases and parental controls
Two minutes in Google Play puts every purchase behind your password.
Require authentication for purchases
- Open the Google Play Store app and tap your profile picture.
- Go to Settings → Authentication → Require authentication for purchases.
- Choose For all purchases through Google Play on this device.
Family Link
If your child has their own supervised Google Account, Google Family Link lets you approve purchases and downloads, and set screen-time limits.
If something was bought by accident
See our Refund Policy. Google Play reviews refunds for purchases made by a family member, and we help too.
5 Screen time and wellbeing
CrewPlay is built for short games played together, not endless scrolling.
- Most games last two to ten minutes, and a match always ends with a podium for everybody.
- There are no streaks to protect and no timers pulling your child back. Reminders come only if somebody says yes to them: at most one a day, never late at night, and none at all after a month without playing. The only other note is one when a new version of CrewPlay is out, once for each version.
- Android’s Digital Wellbeing and Family Link can set daily limits for any app, CrewPlay included.
- With several people sharing one phone, put it on a flat surface and take breaks. See Play safely for the photosensitivity notice.
6 What’s in the games
Cartoon characters, board games and gentle competition. The word list is profanity-filtered.
CrewPlay has board and party games such as Ludo, carrom, tic-tac-toe and dots and boxes, plus sports and arcade games. The most combative moments are a kabaddi tackle and two cartoon cannons lobbing shells at each other’s hillside. There is no blood, no realistic violence and no scary content.
Guess in 5’s word list is filtered for profanity, and the Daily Challenge word comes from that same list, picked on the phone: nothing is fetched from the internet. The words on screen are warm and encouraging: nobody is ever told they lost.
7 Our commitments under the law
We don’t collect children’s information, don’t track them and never target ads at them.
- India (DPDP Act, 2023): anybody under 18 is a child. We process no children’s personal data, and we do not track, monitor the behaviour of, or target advertising at children. CrewPlay’s ads are limited to ads suitable for a family audience.
- United States (COPPA): CrewPlay is not directed at children under 13. We do not collect personal information from anybody; Google’s ad software collects device information, including the advertising ID, from every phone that shows CrewPlay’s ads (Privacy Policy, section 8).
- EEA and UK: CrewPlay is designed in the spirit of the UK Age Appropriate Design Code: high privacy by default, no profiling, no location, no nudges to give anything up, and reminders off until somebody says yes.
If we change anything else that affects children, we will update this page first and follow Google Play’s Families rules wherever they apply.
8 Questions from parents
Email us. We answer every parent personally.
Write to support@epsilondevelopers.xyz or use the contact page. If your child emailed us, we can delete the message on your request.
Version history
| Version | Date | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 30 Oct 2026 | Game-night reminders come more often while CrewPlay is quiet, still at most one a day and never late at night. Apart from them, one note each time a new version of CrewPlay is out, with a switch of its own. |
| 1.7 | 15 Oct 2026 | Game-night reminders: off until somebody on the phone says yes, then at most one a day, never late at night, and none after a month without playing. |
| 1.6 | 12 Oct 2026 | A banner under the Carrom board, as under the Ludo board. |
| 1.5 | 12 Oct 2026 | A fourth place for ads: at most one full-screen ad as somebody leaves a game part-way, never in its first half-minute and never in a Crew Link room. |
| 1.4 | 11 Oct 2026 | A banner under the Ludo board, our own promotions when Google has no ad, and no ads in the first two minutes after CrewPlay is first opened. |
| 1.3 | 11 Oct 2026 | The short video on the podium that doubles a match’s coins: only ever watched by choice, and never needed to keep what was won. |
| 1.2 | 9 Oct 2026 | The Daily Challenge word comes from the app’s own filtered list, never the internet. |
| 1.1 | 22 Sep 2026 | The one ad after a match, and what it means for children. |
| 1.0 | 22 Sep 2026 | First version. |