YouTube Kids Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.9% of reviews
Neutral11.4% of reviews
Negative experience35.7% of reviews

~ Based on 4,656 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about YouTube Kids

Is YouTube Kids Safe?

YouTube Kids appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for YouTube Kids is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 2,699,957 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,699,957 App Store ratings for YouTube Kids.

Is YouTube Kids Legit?

YouTube Kids appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for YouTube Kids is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Update your moderation

I was browsing on this app then I saw a DanTDM video called “if SpongeBob was a horror movie” … seriously HORROR? I’ve also seen Fpe (fundamental paper education it’s a yt series)(don’t forget about the fake scary peppa pig incident) the Fpe videos has blood and murder I’m gonna rate five stars so adults can know you probably shouldn’t download this and for you to respond who ever runs the moderation (edit i also saw a video that had a swear) (edit 2 I saw a video where Briana plays a game called bit buddy it’s like a computer virus which if you close it the bit buddy d!es and she said there is a special ending if it lives for 24 hours so I skipped to the end of the video to see what happens Briana had to go to the restroom and Preston comes and closes the app then it reopens by itself and shows the bit buddy’s sk3l3ton ) (edit 3 once I saw sanna (sanna and moody) playing a knock off amanda the adventurer game on Roblox I thought it was fine until Amanda starts arguing at the grocery store then Amanda k!lls wooly then it shows Amanda holding his wool) (edit:idk 4 I think I decided to redownload the app and see the monstrosity on here I started off by searching Doki doki literature club cause and I came across an video called show this video to your kids but the thumbnail said DON’T SHOW THIS TO YOUR KIDS! so obviously….I HAD TO CLICK ON IT ofc it started out normal it was a piano tutorial for Johny johny yes papa when it got to the “open your mouth HAAHAHA” Part things started got creepy and also it had a bunch of flashing lights and also I think there was a jumpscare at the end)
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Can’t cast to Chromecast anymore

The button to cast is gone from the app

Fornite

It needs more Fornite

Why the hell is this all showing videos of random languages to my kid?

In the search results everything but the actually f language set in the app!!!

YouTube Kids is the evil genius

YouTube Kids has educational stuff that’s good. But YouTube Kids is so weird. Some are absolute sickpee and I need a nap every morning. And it’s not for kids. I know why it’s not for kids, that means it’s not horrid, It’s just instant brain rot, and you only see is a kid singing memes and cartoon weirdness. It’s horrible for kids. I will not recommend this because:

Online chat with strangers

Bloody and dark content

Fake photofish with strangers

Too bad pop ups

Eating weird

Weapons

Nudity

Extreme violence

Pornography

Foul Language

And YouTube kids needs to recommend these parents to keep their children away.

This is not entertainment.
This is poorly regulated, emotionally harmful, and unsafe.
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Would be higher if the programmer had kids

It’s good for limiting kids to age-appropriate videos so you can distract them to get things done when you need to. However, it’s clear the programmers/developers don’t have kids. The 2 major flaws, which related are: you can’t lock the screen to prevent the kids from changing videos (but you can limit videos to age), and when kids are finger happy changing videos it puts the settings button on top of the video selection… which the kids will hit and stop everything so you have to drop what you’re trying to get done to constantly get the app to work again. Huge oversight on the settings button placement.
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Pls help

Since I downloaded the new update for my iPad videos are broken I’ve tried updating the app and it still won’t play the videos the videos load but won’t play I’ve tried resetting my iPad still nothing works.

Nice but one problem

I like it but there’s something wrong like there should be a google thing in it with nobody can download the google app this is why I gave it 4 stars

Needs ability to edit what videos come up

It’s not a bad app but for it to be used by kids I really wish for parents to have the ability to choose what videos come up on their home page. Maybe even an option to have only videos from their subscriber list show up. And maybe add in the option to lock the screen so they aren’t scrolling and changing the video before even making it halfway through the one they’re watching.
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🫥

YouTube kids more like YouTube I just saw a video that was Italian brain rot and the end was kinda scary ai is gonna take over YouTube kid to I heard and that was ai so don’t get YouTube kids keep your kids safe

Add more katseye 2

I love katseye as well

CAYCE

My son Kayden was watching this 24 seven

No, yes I don’t know…

Hm it fine but no? It’s really not for little kids should be for teens because there is creepy stuff that includes blood death or bad words not for kids under 10 you can do better who ever did this NO

Not great

My son is very scared of Halloween; they changed the app's opening to a Halloween theme and even added a Halloween tab. My son doesn't want to use YouTube Kids anymore. It should be optional.

Great but inappropriate content

I like YouTube kids since it’s got Gabby’s Dollhouse and Sky Kids, Let’s go bananas, Work-It-Out-Wombats and PiriPenguins
But.. there are so many innapropriate videos
Mememememe’s 4yr old daughter watched a disgusting video about… well this is what she said “Chase’s mummy and daddy jumped and now their dead and chase is crying” (probs from pawpattol) and you should remove a few of the Indian Content there was one called “the ant and grasshopper” in a specific channel (dunno what it is called)and at the end because the grasshopper didn’t listen to the ants they didn’t let him in like cocomelon (well cocomelon’s american) and tia and tofu’s one making him freeze to death in the nuclear winter
Also Jingle toons video shown an Indian man Dancing with a goat in an ad 4:3 ratio and ain’t speaking British English
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YouTube kids

So good but could be better problem is I don’t think it is very good really actually because there’s a lot of horror things on them or maybe scary things that I wouldn’t recommend for kids

Hmm.

I saw some disturbing geometry dash things with flesh and gore. Please, we need more filter options. Arigato!

The best but unsafe

When I opened the app I was so so excited to use my first social media platform. I see the first video. 😤it was extremely inappropriate!!!! Not even appropriate for 13 yr olds! I don’t recommend for children under 16! I personally think zigazoo would be best for your children because there is every parental control you could imagine. Such as commenting posting having friends liking and many more! It is ai filtered so that almost no content slips through.
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My child is learning and getting edicatied

VERY GOOD!!

I love this app can you put more Olivia Rodrigo

I like this app because it dose not have bad words I just wish there was Olivia Rodrigo songs I like her songs I’m not lying I do🩷