KidPacer
YouTube for kids, on your rules

The YouTube your kid loves, with minutes they earn.

A sum, a pattern or a spelling earns them more time. Their time refills while they're away, and a heads-up comes before it runs out, not halfway through a song. Pick a card and it sets it all: how long, what earns more, and what's off limits.

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Free, no card. Set up in about five minutes, on the computer or Android phone your child watches YouTube on.

2–4ages 20min

First screens

A few gentle minutes, only from channels you choose.

  • 20m / 2h
  • 2–25m
  • Under 4
  • 2×5m

First screens

Ages 2–4

  • Closed mode: only channels you allow. You pick them next.
  • No Shorts, no games.
  • 20 minutes of watching, back after 2 hours of rest.
  • Only videos between 2 and 25 minutes long.
  • Under 4: only the gentlest quarter of videos.
  • A video nobody has measured is stopped once it proves too much.
  • Never in a title: “horror”, “scary”, “creepy”, “jumpscare”.
  • 2 challenge treats a day, 5 minutes each, 1 question long: What comes next?
  • A wrong answer is tried again.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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5–6ages 30min

Little learner

Short calm videos, and minutes earned with a sum or a pattern.

  • 30m / 3h
  • 2–25m
  • Calm
  • 5×5m

Little learner

Ages 5–6

  • Open mode: all of YouTube but the channels you block.
  • No Shorts, no games.
  • 30 minutes of watching, back after 3 hours of rest.
  • Only videos between 2 and 25 minutes long.
  • Calm: videos calmer than half of what children are shown.
  • A video nobody has measured is stopped once it proves too much.
  • Never in a title: “horror”, “scary”, “creepy”, “jumpscare”, “prank”, “challenge”.
  • 5 challenge treats a day, 5 minutes each, 2 questions long: Addition or Subtraction, then What comes next? or Turn it.
  • A wrong answer to the first question is tried again; to any after it, back to the first.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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7–9ages 45min

School days

A session after school and one before bed, and games are fine.

  • 45m / 8h
  • 2–25m
  • Calm
  • 3×10m

School days

Ages 7–9

  • Open mode: all of YouTube but the channels you block.
  • No Shorts, games on.
  • 45 minutes of watching, back after 8 hours of rest.
  • Only videos between 2 and 25 minutes long.
  • Calm: videos calmer than half of what children are shown.
  • A video nobody has measured may finish, then its channel is blocked.
  • Never in a title: “prank”, “challenge”, “skibidi”, “brainrot”.
  • 3 challenge treats a day, 10 minutes each, 3 questions long: Math, then What comes next? or Turn it, then Tell the time.
  • A wrong answer to the first question is tried again; to any after it, back to the first.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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8–10ages 45min

Times-tables trainer

Every challenge treat is a times table, easy to hard.

  • 45m / 8h
  • 2–25m
  • Calm
  • 5×5m

Times-tables trainer

Ages 8–10

  • Open mode: all of YouTube but the channels you block.
  • No Shorts, games on.
  • 45 minutes of watching, back after 8 hours of rest.
  • Only videos between 2 and 25 minutes long.
  • Calm: videos calmer than half of what children are shown.
  • A video nobody has measured may finish, then its channel is blocked.
  • Never in a title: “prank”, “challenge”, “skibidi”, “brainrot”.
  • 5 challenge treats a day, 5 minutes each, 3 questions long: Math, then Math, then Math.
  • A wrong answer to the first question is tried again; to any after it, back to the first.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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10–12ages 60min

Tween balance

An hour a day, longer videos, and harder questions.

  • 60m / 23h
  • 2–45m
  • Relaxed
  • 2×15m

Tween balance

Ages 10–12

  • Open mode: all of YouTube but the channels you block.
  • No Shorts, games on.
  • 60 minutes of watching, back after 23 hours of rest.
  • Only videos between 2 and 45 minutes long.
  • Relaxed: only the most intense tenth is hidden.
  • A video nobody has measured may finish, then its channel is blocked.
  • Never in a title: “skibidi”, “brainrot”.
  • 2 challenge treats a day, 15 minutes each, 3 questions long: Math, then What comes next? or Turn it, then Tell the time.
  • A wrong answer to the first question is tried again; to any after it, back to the first.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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13–18ages 90min

Trusted teen

Most of YouTube, a generous limit, and trust.

  • 90m / 23h
  • Any
  • Relaxed
  • Off

Trusted teen

Ages 13–18

  • Open mode: all of YouTube but the channels you block.
  • Shorts on, games on.
  • 90 minutes of watching, back after 23 hours of rest.
  • Videos of any length.
  • Relaxed: only the most intense tenth is hidden.
  • A video nobody has measured plays; it is hidden next time if it was too much.
  • No word rules.
  • No challenge treats.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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anyages 30min

Gentle senses

For a child who finds flashes, sudden sounds and noise too much.

  • 30m / 4h
  • 2–25m
  • Under 4
  • 3×5m

Gentle senses

Any age

  • Open mode: all of YouTube but the channels you block.
  • No Shorts, no games.
  • 30 minutes of watching, back after 4 hours of rest.
  • Only videos between 2 and 25 minutes long.
  • Under 4: only the gentlest quarter of videos.
  • Nothing that flashes; few startles, small swings in loudness, little shrill sound.
  • A video nobody has measured is stopped once it proves too much.
  • Never in a title: “horror”, “scary”, “creepy”, “jumpscare”.
  • 3 challenge treats a day, 5 minutes each, 2 questions long: What comes next?, then What comes next?
  • A wrong answer is tried again.

Your channel lists stay as they are.

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anyages +more
Tweak

Holiday

More watching and more challenge treats, on top of what is set.

  • 90m / 6h
  • 5 a day

Holiday

Any age

  • Watching goes to 90 minutes, back after 6 hours of rest.
  • Five challenge treats a day instead of the usual number.
  • Everything else stays as it is. Pick your recipe again when the holiday is over.
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anyages ½less
Tweak

Rough week

Half the watching, nothing over 25 minutes, no Shorts or games, for a while.

  • ½ time
  • ≤25m
  • No Shorts

Rough week

Any age

  • Watching is cut to half of what it is now.
  • No video longer than 25 minutes, and no Shorts or games.
  • Challenge treats are off.
  • Everything else stays as it is. Pick your recipe again when things settle.
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anyages ?yours

Your own

Every setting, one question at a time.

Your own

Any age

  • Five questions, one at a time: Shorts and games, time, how calm, the channels, and rules of your own by words or length.
  • Each comes with a few ready answers, and you can change any of it later.
Build your own

Tilt a card to look inside it. Tap it to turn it over.

Up and running in five minutes

Under a minute

Sign in and add your child

Sign in with Google, choose your PIN, type their name. No card.

One tap

Tap their card

It sets everything. Change anything that doesn't fit, now or later, from your phone.

About two minutes

Put it on their computer or phone

Add KidPacer to Chrome, Edge or Brave, or install the Android app, open YouTube, and scan the code it shows. See how.

Get started free

You did everything the tools let you do. It still ends in a fight.

You set a timer. It cut off the song halfway, there was no way to earn a little more, and it only counted one tablet. You blocked a few channels, and YouTube found new ones through a link, autoplay and Shorts.

Every tool you have says "stop". None of them says "answer this, and you get ten more minutes".

And a four-year-old's rules and a nine-year-old's are a dozen settings each, spread over three places. KidPacer puts them on one card, and keeps them on every computer and phone your child uses.

What KidPacer does

Your child keeps the real YouTube. Underneath, KidPacer keeps the time, asks for an answer before more of it, and takes out what breaks your rules.

Minutes they earn

A tile asks one to three questions, and every right answer is a gold star on the way to more minutes: sums and times tables, what comes next, which shape is the same one turned, telling the time, and spelling, letters and matching words in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Spanish or French. You choose how many a day and what each is worth.

Or hand out a treat from your phone: "Homework done, 10 minutes". They bank it and spend it when they choose, even in the middle of a rest.

Challenge treat10 minutes
7 + 5 = ?
12
★★★

Time that refills

Say 45 minutes, refilling while they're away. It only drains while a video plays. Two minutes before it runs out the video pauses with one button to go on, so they can finish the song, then a rest screen until there's time again. Counted across every computer and phone they use.

One card sets everything

Seven recipe cards, from First screens at 2 to Trusted teen at 18, and Holiday or Rough week on top for a while. One tap sets how long, the challenges, the treats, the words to keep out and how long a video may be. Turn one over above to read every rule it sets.

Channels your way

Everything but what you block, or only what you allow, however they get there: a link, a share or autoplay. Block a channel from your phone, or from YouTube itself with your PIN. Block toy vlogs and fast nursery-rhyme cartoons in one tick, and keep "prank" out of titles. Shorts and YouTube's games stay off unless you turn them on.

YouTube Kids too

The same time, treats, challenges and channel rules hold on YouTube Kids, and the time and rules on YouTube played inside other websites. Each has a switch on your child's page if you'd rather not.

Watch along from your phone

See what they're watching, how much time is left and what the video is like. Stop it, or block the channel now or when the video ends.

Private by design

The measuring happens on your child's computer or phone. No picture and no sound ever leave it: only the numbers, which video it was, and the minutes watched. The details.

How calm a video is Beta

KidPacer also measures each video as it plays: cuts a minute, flashes, how much of the screen is vivid colour, loudness swings, startles, shrill sound. Pick how calm on a slider, from Under 4 to Off, and a video that's too much is taken out of their feed and search before YouTube draws it, even on a channel you allowed.

About a thousand of the most-watched kids' channels are measured before you arrive. A video nobody has measured yet is held against your level after its first minute, then stopped, let finish or hidden next time, as you choose. The ratings are still being tuned.

Noa is watching12 min left
RAINBOW SLIME SURPRISE EGGS 🌈🌈
Toy Party Fun
Cuts a minute
41
Flashes a second
2.4
Loudness swing
9 dB
Startles a minute
11

Compared with what you have today

Claims taken from each product's own site, September 2026.

YouTube KidsWhitelistVideoKidPacer
Minutes a child earnsNoNoSums, patterns, shapes, the clock, spelling, letters, words
Time limitsTimer per deviceNo, by designPer child, across computers and phones, refills as they rest
A whole setup in one tapThree age bandsNoSeven recipe cards
Approved channels onlyYesYesYes, links and autoplay included, or everything but what you block
ShortsCapped, not removedRemovedOff unless you turn them on
See what's playing and stop itNoNoFrom your phone
Rules on pacing, colour and soundNoNoIn beta: a level or your own limits
Where it runsPhones, tablets, TVs, webComputers, phones, tablets, TVsChrome, Edge or Brave on a computer; Android phones and tablets
PriceFree$6.99 to $14.99 per child per monthFree

Questions parents ask

Is it really free?

Yes. It's not a trial, and there's no card to give. If we ever add paid plans, we'll say so clearly first, and you'll never pay for anything you haven't agreed to.

What do I need?

The computer your child watches YouTube on, with Chrome, Edge or Brave, or their Android phone or tablet, and your phone for the rest. There's no iPhone or iPad app yet, and nothing for TVs.

How is it installed?

On a computer, you add it from the Chrome Web Store, in Chrome, Edge or Brave. On Android, you download the app from our site; it isn't on Google Play. The install page walks you through both.

Will my child notice?

They keep the YouTube they know. What changes is what's in the feed, a small tank in the corner showing the time left, a tile that asks a question for more, and a rest screen when it runs out.

Does it work on YouTube Kids?

Yes: the same time, treats, challenges and channel rules, unless you switch it off. Videos aren't measured there, so How calm goes only by what's already measured.

Can my child get around it?

A child who knows their way round Chrome's extensions page can turn it off, and another browser isn't covered. On Android, YouTube's own app and the browser are still there unless Family Link or the phone's app limits keep them away. Parent view, switching child and KidPacer's options ask for your PIN.

What about comments, end screens and ads?

Comments are still YouTube's. Whatever a link, autoplay or an end screen opens is checked like anything else, and they're sent back home if it breaks your rules. Ads stay: blocking them would put KidPacer on the wrong side of YouTube's terms.

What leaves my child's computer or phone?

The measured numbers, which video it was, and the seconds watched. Never a picture or a sound. The shared catalogue names no child. Read the privacy policy.

Give your kid YouTube on your rules.

Free. Sign in, tap their card, put KidPacer on their computer or phone. About five minutes, and tonight's YouTube is on your rules.

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