YouTube Kids decides how long. Whitelist apps decide which channels. KidPacer decides what kind of video, on every video, and shows you why.
Sign in with Google, add your child, pick a preset. Under ten minutes. No card.
Why it was hidden
Spikes across the whole video, worst at 2:40.
You set up YouTube Kids. You added a timer. You blocked a few channels. Twenty minutes later the screen is a strobe of rainbow slime, surprise eggs and someone shouting into a microphone, and afterwards your kid is wired and cranky.
Two videos from the same "approved" channel can be a calm ten-minute story or a three-minute cut-every-second sugar rush. Nothing today tells them apart.
The tools you have answer two questions: how long, and which channels. Neither answers the one that matters most for a young child. What kind of video is this?
Your child watches on the real YouTube page inside an app we control. Underneath, our code decides what appears, enforces your time rules and measures every video as it plays.
Every video is measured on the device while it plays: cuts per minute, colour saturation, rainbow flooding, flicker, volume jumps, sound-effect density, shrillness. Pick a preset or set the thresholds yourself. A video that fails is hidden before your child ever sees its thumbnail.
Nobody else offers this. It holds even for a video on a channel you approved.
at most 15neverat most 53 to 25 minno "slime", "surprise egg"Daily and weekly budgets per child. Schedules like nothing before 08:00 or on school nights. A soft warning before the hard stop, and a one-tap extension from your phone when you feel like being nice. Counted across all of a child's devices, and it works offline.
YouTube's recommendations are filtered and re-ordered before they are drawn, calmest first. Your child never taps something that then gets blocked. Shorts, comments, end screens and YouTube's autoplay do not exist.
Approving a channel admits its videos as candidates. It does not exempt them from your rules. A channel that turns into a sound-effects factory starts losing videos from your child's feed without you lifting a finger.
Every hidden video has a reason, with a timeline of where the stimulation spiked. Disagree? Allow it from the same screen. Your overrides make the presets better for everyone.
Open your phone: what each child is watching, playing or paused, minutes left. Pause it from the sofa. Block it on the spot. The same parent panel opens inside the kid app behind your PIN.
One family, many kids, one PIN. A child taps their avatar to switch. Require a per-child PIN so a five-year-old cannot hop onto a ten-year-old's laxer profile. Switching resets YouTube's memory, so tastes never leak between kids.
Measurement runs on the device at a few percent of CPU. Only aggregate numbers ever leave it, never frames, never audio. Your child's YouTube runs logged out. No account, no notifications, no comments, ever.
Claims taken from each product's own site, September 2026.
| YouTube Kids | WhitelistVideo | KidPacer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approved channels only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Time budgets and schedules | Timer per device | No, by design | Per child, across devices, offline |
| Rules on pacing, colour and sound | No | No | Presets or your own thresholds |
| New uploads re-checked | No | No | Every video, every time |
| Suggestions filtered before drawing | Ranked by YouTube | Android only | Calm first, all platforms |
| Shorts | Capped, not removed | Removed | Removed |
| "Why was this hidden" with override | No | No | With a timeline |
| See what is playing, pause remotely | No | No | Yes |
| Extension from your phone | No | No | Yes |
| Age focus | 4 to 12 | 8 to 15 | 2 to 8 |
| Price | Free | $6.99 to $14.99 per child per month | Free to start |
No new password. Invite the other parent if you like.
Just a name. No account for the child, ever.
Calm, Educational only, or Under 4. Tune the thresholds later if you want.
Android phone or tablet, Android TV, or PC. Attach it to your family with one code.
Free to start. Sign in, add a child, pick a preset, and see the first "why hidden" card tonight.