YouTube Kids isn’t the answer.
YouTube Kids is too restrictive and too permissive at the same time. It blocks plenty of good content that’s perfectly fine for children — the documentary about volcanoes, the football skills channel, the Lego stop-motion creator your eight-year-old has been following — so parents give up and hand over the main app instead.
And YouTube Kids is still YouTube. It runs the same recommendation engine, the same autoplay, the same endless feed designed to keep children watching.
Safety filters help at the edges, but they can’t tell the difference between a thoughtful children’s creator and a channel built to hold attention by any means available.
Two modes. One app.
Parent mode
Manage everything from one app on your own phone.
Simply switch into parent mode with a PIN and curate channels for each child.
- Search YouTube and tap on a channel
- Choose which kids it’s approved for
Up to four profiles per family, so siblings of different ages and interests each get their own feed.
Kids mode
Your child opens the app and sees only what you’ve approved for them.
No search bar, no recommendations, no autoplay, no path to the rest of YouTube.
Lock devices to kids mode. A shared family tablet stays locked to kids mode; a personal device stays locked to one child’s profile. Either way, your child can’t get back into parent mode without the PIN.
Launching on iOS and Android, phone and tablet, June 2026.
Smart TV and web access coming soon.
One subscription. The whole family.
- The whole of YouTube, curated by you
- Up to four kid profiles, one feed each
- No ads, no algorithm, no autoplay
- Lock any device to kids mode
- Share curation with other grown-ups you trust
Finally, I don’t have to hover over my son while he watches his favourite YouTube creators.
Mum of two under 10
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