There's nothing between YouTube Kids and the entire internet.
ChannelKeep is what goes there: you pick the channels, and their screen plays those -- at seven or at fifteen.
YouTube Kids answers one impossible question: what videos are safe for children in general? An algorithm answers it, which is why the same catalogue reads as babyish to a nine-year-old and still occasionally surfaces something you'd never have chosen yourself. Somewhere around age eight or nine, kids start refusing it outright -- and from there, a parent's only official options are the entire open platform, or nothing.
Nothing sits in between. That gap is ChannelKeep.
ChannelKeep answers a much easier question: which channels do you trust for your child? You already know the answer -- Mark Rober, Veritasium, the Minecraft channel you've actually sat and watched together. None of those are "kids content" in YouTube's own taxonomy. All of them are right for your child, specifically. There's no age model at all, so it works exactly the same at seven and at fifteen.
Curate the channels once. Your kid only ever sees what you chose. Start free
How it works
- 1
You choose the channels
Pick the ones you already trust. Most parents finish in an evening -- it's usually a dozen channels, not a hundred.
- 2
Your kid's app only plays those
Nothing outside the list ever loads -- not a related video, not a search result, not a channel your child hasn't seen you approve.
- 3
Adjust it from your phone, anytime
The list lives on our servers, not on the tablet. Add a channel, remove one, or hand a device back to a younger sibling with a completely different list -- no need to touch the tablet at all.
No recommendation engine. No Shorts.
YouTube Kids still runs on the same machinery as regular YouTube underneath -- something is deciding what plays next, and it's tuned to keep a child watching, not to serve the parent's judgment. ChannelKeep has none of that. There is nothing in the app trying to extend the session. Shorts -- the endless vertical feed built for exactly the opposite of what you're doing here -- isn't in the app at all.
We hold almost nothing on your child
There's no child account. No name. No age. No third-party SDK sitting inside the app collecting anything of its own. Everything ChannelKeep does store about your family is visible on a single screen inside the app -- with a delete button next to each item that actually deletes it, not a support ticket that maybe gets to it.
(How long your child watches is a separate question, and one that's already answered for free -- iOS Screen Time and YouTube Kids' own timer both do it well. ChannelKeep isn't a timer. It's about what plays, not how long.)
Pricing
$4.99/month, or $39.99/year
One price per family -- every child you add is included, not billed separately. The first month is free. Apple holds the payment method for it, not us, and the subscription renews automatically into the paid plan once the free month ends -- cancel any time before then and you won't be charged.
Try ChannelKeep free for a month
Set up through the App Store. Cancel any time before it renews and you will not be charged.
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