YouTube Kids
YouTube Kids is the safe video discovery experience made for kids. Exploration is made easy by categories like Shows, Music, Learning, Gaming and Explore. Meanwhile, adults can easily maintain control through easy-to-access a grown-up control system.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Online
- Apple TV
- Android TV
Features
- Kids Mode
- Restrictions
- Built-in timer
- Video Hosting
- Kid friendly
- Content Discovery
YouTube Kids News & Activities
Recent News
- Danilo_Venom published news article about YouTube
YouTube users report obscene NSFW content targeting minors found in video recommendationsSeveral YouTube users have reported encountering obscene content within video recommendations and m...
- Maoholguin published news article about YouTube Kids
YouTube Kids TV app to be discontinued in 2024, merges with main YouTube AppThe YouTube Kids TV app, previously a standalone application on platforms like Android/Google TV, A...
Recent activities
- Danilo_Venom updated YouTube Kids
- Sequester3480 reviewed YouTube Kids
Gotten better over time.
App now gives more granular control over video watching. For example, you can restrict it to allow only channels you pre-approve. They've made this process way easier in the past year. Just activate it, then go search for channels (it will temporarily lift any age restrictions; still blocks content that wouldn't show up on YT Kids anyway), and then you can manually add in those channels as approved channels. Finish, and the app goes back to showing only content from...
YouTube Kids information
AlternativeTo Categories
Education & Reference, Video & MoviesApple AppStore
- Updated Aug 26, 2024
- 4.67 avg rating
What is YouTube Kids?
YouTube Kids is the safe video discovery experience made for kids. Exploration is made easy by categories like Shows, Music, Learning, Gaming and Explore. Meanwhile, adults can easily maintain control through easy-to-access a grown-up control system.
Comments and Reviews
Gotten better over time.
App now gives more granular control over video watching. For example, you can restrict it to allow only channels you pre-approve. They've made this process way easier in the past year. Just activate it, then go search for channels (it will temporarily lift any age restrictions; still blocks content that wouldn't show up on YT Kids anyway), and then you can manually add in those channels as approved channels. Finish, and the app goes back to showing only content from those approved channels.
This works great if you're a parent concerned about what the kid watches. But at the moment one problem is not all kid-friendly channels will appear in YT Kids searches, even in the temporary parent login state. For example, Reading Rainbow now has full episodes on their official channel, but for some reason the official channel won't show up in a YT Kids search. Maybe that's fixed by the time you read this. Probably related to some setting the RR channel admins forgot to set.
Also, as expected, only works with online internet connection. So if you want YouTube Kids content offline, better to download some videos as a backup using one of the Tube downloading sites (AlternativeTo provides some nice examples...)
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