KIMMA

•  Germany’s first GEMA-licensed music streaming app for educational institutions

•  10,000+ child-appropriate tracks — movement songs, lullabies, classical music, children’s pop

•  Offline functionality, ad-free, no screen time for children

•  Available for iOS and Android, single device activation per licence

•  Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube etc. are not legally permitted in daycare contexts (§ 97 and § 108a German Copyright Act)

•  Licence packages from €20 a month (S = 3 licences, M = 6 licences, L = 10 licences)

•  14-day free trial. Custom offers for multi-site providers on request.

•  Reference customers: City of Frankfurt, Fröbel Group, AWO, faith-based providers

•  Sponsoring member of the German Daycare Association (Deutscher Kita-Verband)

Because Spotify is licensed for the living room, not the morning circle. The same applies to Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music and Deezer: all of them allow private, non-commercial use only. Playing them in a daycare counts legally as commercial use — and is prohibited under § 97 of the German Copyright Act (UrhG). The commercial form of unauthorised use is a criminal offence under § 108a UrhG.

The rule also covers personal devices used by educators within the institution. “Anyone who plays music publicly without paying for it is committing a criminal offence,” states attorney Lars Harder-Prinz of media law firm Meinking/Harder-Prinz. “Legally, this constitutes theft from GEMA members and the music creators themselves.”

Roughly eight in ten German daycare centres still play music from Spotify or comparable services — most of them without knowing the law. KIMMA closes the gap.

KIMMA is a music streaming app for educational institutions, with every track GEMA-licensed for commercial use in daycare centres, nurseries, after-school programmes and primary schools. iOS and Android. App Store and Google Play.

KIMMA was developed by MOTECO. Early-childhood educators at the Bavarian Red Cross tested the app in everyday operation before launch. KIMMA is an official sponsoring member of the German Daycare Association (Deutscher Kitaverband).

KIMMA provides 10,000+ carefully curated tracks for children. Ready-made playlists for every part of the day. Offline use. Custom playlists you can build, save and share with the team. The library grows continuously. Music requests land directly with our editorial team and feed into programme curation.

Feature overview:

•  10,000+ GEMA-licensed tracks, from children’s songs to children’s pop

•  Ready-made playlists for morning circle, movement, nap time, birthdays, seasons and festivals

•  Create, save and share custom playlists with the team

•  Offline functionality for use without a WLAN connection

•  Ad-free, no screen time for children

•  Full-text search across the entire catalogue

•  Available for iOS and Android

•  One-time activation with a licence key per device

Music structures the day. Morning circle, movement, mealtime, goodbye. It supports language, motor skills, social competencies and creativity. It lets every child join in, regardless of first language or background. Studies confirm what every educator already knows: regular singing and shared music-making strengthen language sense, self-confidence and the dynamics of the group.

In daily educational practice, music supports the following developmental areas:

•  Language development through rhymes, song lyrics and chants

•  Motor skills through dancing, clapping and instrumental play

•  Social competencies through shared music-making in the group

•  Emotional expressiveness through resonance with different musical moods

•  Rituals and structure through recurring songs at morning circle, tidying up, goodbye

•  Inclusion and participation regardless of first language or background

KIMMA puts this pedagogical impact on a legally secure and practical technical foundation.

KIMMA is built for daycare centres, nurseries, after-school programmes, kindergartens, primary schools and comparable child and youth care institutions. It works for a single Kita on a single street. It works for a national provider with hundreds of sites under one roof.

Typical users: municipal daycare centres, independent providers such as the Fröbel Group, welfare associations such as AWO, faith-based providers and parent-child initiatives. Through provider licences, umbrella organisations can purchase licences in bulk for multiple institutions. The City of Frankfurt uses KIMMA across 150 daycare centres via a framework agreement.

KIMMA is available in three packages. Package S: €20 a month, 3 licences. Package M: €30, 6 licences. Package L: €40, 10 licences. Annual billing cuts the price by 20 percent. One licence per device, smartphone or tablet. All prices exclusive of VAT.

For providers with multiple institutions, we put together individual quotations. A short email to info@kimma.de, stating the number of institutions and the desired number of licences per institution, is enough to start.

Institutions can trial KIMMA free of charge for 14 days. Cancel any time during the trial — no charge. Full feature set, full music library, from day one.

How to get started:

1.  Free registration at kimma.de using the institution’s details

2.  Book a licence package and receive licence keys by email

3.  Download the KIMMA app from the App Store or Google Play Store

4.  Activate the app on smartphone or tablet using the licence key

5.  Use KIMMA in everyday practice; if cancelled within 14 days, no charges apply

Providers with multiple institutions get a separate onboarding with trial licence keys and an individual volume offer.

KIMMA is run by Mobility Technology Consulting (MOTECO) in Hamburg with twenty-plus years in the entertainment industry. 

The app was developed in close collaboration with the Bavarian Red Cross and early-childhood educators in the field. KIMMA is an official sponsoring member of the German Daycare Association.