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YouTube Kids

An app made just for kids

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Entertainment

Languages

English

YouTube Kids provides a contained environment for children to explore their interests through video. With a variety of parental control tools, parents can customize the experience by selecting age-appropriate content settings, setting timers, and blocking specific videos or channels. The app features everything from favorite cartoons to educational shows.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

88/100

YouTube Kids is an essential tool for modern parenting, but it’s most effective when used with the available controls. The interface is wonderfully bright and chunky, making it easy for toddlers to navigate, but the real value is in the 'Parental Settings' menu. Being able to hand-pick every single channel my child can see gives me immense peace of mind.

The 'Timer' feature is a life-saver for avoiding tantrums; when the app says it’s time to stop, it’s much easier for the child to accept than when a parent takes the device away. While no automated system is perfect, the reporting tools are robust. It transforms the overwhelming world of YouTube into a much more manageable, age-appropriate playground.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Customizable profiles for up to 8 children

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Built-in timer to limit screen time automatically

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Option to block videos and report inappropriate content

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Search controls to allow or disable open searching

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Watch History to keep track of what your kids are viewing

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

You can use the app without signing in, but signing in as a parent allows you to use more advanced customization and control features.

Ratings & Reviews

NOT FOR KIDS
Mon Jan 13 2025 Makeup Mia

We only waited this five stars so it would be shown so let us tell the story we thought that this would be a nice start because our kids were getting a little bored with only a few streaming choices they had and they watch the same thing over and over so we thought this would be a little nice thing to have full control over but then we got it. It’s like we have no control and then the next thing we know after our kids are watching it for a while they get addicted to it and then they act like these spoiled brat Youtubers. and we think it’s not appropriate for kids like it’s a great app and all just you could use more choices and let the parent have more control over what their own kids are watching. Because our kids have become snotty little brats after they’ve been watching these inappropriate videos behind our backs. They never acted like this until they’ve watched this and we were like so surprised how they attitude and personalities just changed all because of this one app and we don’t think it’s appropriate for any kid.

No Blocking Featire
Sat Jan 18 2025 Kathychatters

We love this app and the only reason I gave it 3 stars is because there isn’t anywhere on the app that I can block content about one subject. My grandkids are crazy about one topic and it’s not appropriate for their age, on top of it’s generally narrated by adults or older teens, our youngest is 4. In order to block it I have to block every single video that has the name in the contents and every week there are new ones. As parents and grandparents it’s important to be able to block entire content. So while they may be way past Coco Melon they are certainly not ready for Catnap. Inevitably it ends up in a war over what we want them watching and the elimination of what would be some great content (books, animal video’s, learning to play with each other), and when they are drawn back in by the suggestive videos that scroll along the bottom, it often will include the items we don’t want them seeing and ends up with the elimination of the app all together. Please, if you could allow a broad “block” based on the name we don’t want them viewing. It would be so helpful! I would be glad to come back and give it a 5 star. It’s truly the only reason I gave it a 3. Everything else is great! But if blocking isn’t available, it becomes unusable.

Great app, needs 1 update
Sat Dec 14 2024 Alliekat91

Love this app so much for my 3 year old daughter who is autistic. Lets her have control of what she wants to watch and she can click around and rewind or fast forward 12 times in a row as an ASD stim or for her sensory processing. My only complaint for autistic children or any parent concerned for volume would lack of parental control of volume. My daughter and I have heard other ASD children love shows at full volume, it would be great if there was a setting option for parent controlled volume. The only way I can get around this is to use guided access on her iPad, circle & gray out the volume area but then she can’t go to other apps she likes to switch between game puzzle apps and YT kids app, when I guide it she is stuck on YT kids and being non verbal has to bring the iPad to me to unlock for her to go to the other apps when unlocked she goes back into YT kids and turns the volume to full blast. Please please create a parent control option for volume especially for parents of special needs children. Thank you.

Kids deserve better
Wed Jan 01 2025 DumbellStudios

I’m not going to talk about the inconsistency of the choices on whether or not a channel or video gets allowed on here, but my problem has always been the UI. The recent UI update isn’t terrible but it just sorta looks nicer. One of the most important things lacking is a button to skip back and fast forward by a few seconds. This is especially a problem for longer videos when you just want to go back and see something that just happened and you have to try and scroll back as close as you can. Another problem is that not every channel gets a channel page which makes it less organized especially when you just want to watch some of their channel. Also with channel pages, I don’t like that they show a few of the most recent videos, then most popular, and then chronological releases. I wish you could switch between chronological and most popular so it’s easier to find videos. I also want an option to turn of the sounds effects that play when you press anything, because they’re quite annoying. If simplification is the problem then maybe these should be togglable options in parental settings.

Please read
Mon Feb 16 2026 Cynosion

There is really only stuff for much younger kids and not much for above 8. I will not say my actual age, but eight is when I started to get bored. There are not that many channels, even though I am sure there are many more channels and videos that kids can watch. I would not recommend this to kids over the age of six, seven, or eight. Please take this into consideration when making your app and include some things for older kid such as me. EDIT: came back to add stuff. so i stand by what i said but i didn’t really include any other issues… i am part of the older group, but it keeps recommending me videos for little kids like ms. rachel and sesame street. i also find the subscribe button so useless. you subscribe to get to the channel quicker and yes to support the creator. there is no way to get to your subscribed channels and i think that should be a feature. it could be a new tab or just in the “your stuff”. also, there should be likes. there doesn’t have to be dislikes for positivity or something, but supporting creators is something kids want to do too. i get the no comments for talking to strangers, but no likes just seems useless.

It’s good however..
Sat Dec 14 2024 Feb 10 2023

I feel like this app is a pretty good app for kids to use if they want to watch content and not have there parents worry about certain thing, however I feel like it’s very limited, with the older kids who are 10,11, and 12 are stuck with the same features just more content to suit age rating, some suggestions I have is having a comment section only for kids, when creators get feedback through the eyes of a kid, not an adult or some capitalist, it can be actual good feedback. I also noticed that with some channels u can’t subscribe to them or they don’t have a profile picture which I find very strange. I think that if the app had more accessible features for older kids it would be a 5 star from me, also if the kids could get notifications when the creators post that would be nice because if a creator posts a video that they want to watch but the kids don’t know when it will be posted it would be nice to have a notification bell like in the actual app.

Great App! But please add these!
Thu Jun 13 2024 CloudyStorm9

this app is great for little kids! I get it. But, I can’t watch FGTEEV and FV family which are COMPLETELY appropriate for kids 8+ and the only good channels I can watch on here is Cherry Pop Productions, DrawingWiffWaffles, and Moriah Elizabeth. I watch other channels on here but those are the best ones, so I’m sick and tired of watching the same channels over and over and over. Another is that I would WAIT and WAIT for new videos to be released. I know that the channel Moriah Elizabeth uploads on all Fridays. so on Fridays I would check to see if the video was released and it wouldn’t. Like what feels about 1 week later it would FINALLY be uploaded. And idk what day DrawingWiffWaffles posts but like 2 months ago the lastest video was “Painting on Easter eggs” and today it’s the same video. No other new ones. I get how they have to put the video through security and stuff but I’m so tired of waiting to see videos that are released late. I would also search up a song that I like and most of the time it would only be in piano tutorials and it wouldn’t be the real song. But over all… this app was good. I’m waiting for it to be way better!

It’s great and all , but it needs more interaction…
Mon Sep 29 2025 LH.1234

YTK is a ok-app but it needs more… almost all videos are like, “ok so if you like this video like and subscribe to see more!” .Like how are we supposed to see more of those videos if we can’t like that video. Like what if it is a video that we don’t like, are not interested, or is inappropriate? It will still pop up even if we only watch it into the part we did not like… Also we can’t comment either so we can’t respond to questions on videos either. Some videos say, “ok guys so comment what you think of this drawing and I will subscribe to you!” . Like we can’t. And also we can’t have channels on YTK you could make that a safe thing to do… you could even make it like BeReal, it’s like a video/ picture program that you can’t like,dislike, and share. It’s very safe cause the only thing you can do is comment , and leave only happy and joyful emoji-like pictures. It’s a good app but could be way,way,way better… BTW this is made by a 11 yr old… look⬇️ Please, please, please make this happen. If not all at least some?

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