Pebble Gear Kids Tablet

Anyone with a child will know of their temptation to rub their grubby little paws over your smartphone at the first opportunity (and with it a potential £20 onion bill). So if you will let them loose on digital devices, peace of mind comes with ones that quash all opportunities to turn your hard-earned cash into in-game loot.

Designed with kids in mind, the Pebble Gear is a seven-inch tablet loaded with GameStore Junior, an app store with some 500+ games that are all free from adverts and in-app purchases. The game store is free for the first year (£4.99 a month thereafter) and the tablet itself is cheap as chips, coming in at just under £100. At that price, you’re obviously not going to be running Fortnite, but all the games I downloaded from the store ran smoothly enough, and there were some real gems in there, like Mini Metro and Crossy Road.

You also have a wealth of parental controls, such as total hours allowed and time of day they can play, and a few other additions like a blue light filter and chunky bumper case to protect it from any drops (although no waterproofing).

Most importantly though, the part that will probably be most thrilling for the kiddos is the fact that it comes decked out with Disney skins. I got my hands on the Frozen II tablet, which meant I had a bunch of exclusive games featuring the likes the film’s heroes Anna and Elsa, as well as a stack of e-books about Disney princesses, but a Toy Story 4 tablet is also available, with more movie tie-ins in the pipeline