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How it works

From a paste to a parent-ready playlist.

No magic. Just a careful pipeline that combines licensed lyric data, audio fingerprints, video frames and human reviewers - so the songs that make it to your kids have already passed five different checks.

The pipeline

Six stages from a URL to a clean playlist.

Built so the parts that need humans stay human, and the parts that don’t happen in milliseconds.

1
STAGE 1

You paste a link

Drop a single URL, a whole playlist, or paste up to 500 tracks at once. Today we accept YouTube links, plus .csv and .m3u files - Spotify, Apple Music and SoundCloud are coming soon.

youtube.com/playlist?list=...
YouTubeSpotifysoonApple MusicsoonSoundCloudsoon.csv.m3u
2
STAGE 2

We pull every track

KidSafeTube fans out, fetches each track’s lyrics, artwork, ID3 metadata and content rating in parallel. Most playlists are fully loaded in under five seconds.

Sunshine Wiggle Dance120ms
Big Robot Boogie152ms
Drive Fast (Radio Edit)184ms
Heartbreak Hotel 3 AM216ms
3
STAGE 3

Four signals get a vote

Lyrics, music-video frames, official metadata, and community signals all contribute weighted votes. No single signal can ruin a song’s reputation.

Lyrics92%
Audio64%
Video47%
Metadata88%
Comments28%
4
STAGE 4

A verdict gets stamped

Each track lands as Clean, Flag, or Block - with a confidence score and a plain-English reason. Below 0.55 confidence, a human reviewer double-checks within 24 hours.

✓Cleanconf. 0.94
!Flagconf. 0.62
✕Blockconf. 0.98
5
STAGE 5

Kid-safe swaps land in the slot

When a song is blocked, we suggest a clean radio edit or a similar-vibe alternative. You can accept all swaps in one click or override per track.

BLOCKED
Bad Decisions (Explicit)
↓
SUGGESTED
Bad Decisions (Radio Edit) - Clean
6
STAGE 6

Your playlist exports anywhere

We push the cleaned playlist back to the service you came from - same order, same vibe, minus the surprises. Or grab a share link that works on any device.

Send to YouTube Music
Sync back to Spotify (soon)
Save as a playlist file
Share by family link
Signal stack

Four layers, one verdict.

Different songs hide different problems. We combine multiple lenses so a clean lyric doesn’t excuse a violent video, and a tagged-explicit song with no actual cussing isn’t blocked by accident.

Lyric corpus

  • •Licensed lyrics for millions of songs
  • •English profanity dictionaries (more languages soon)
  • •Slang dictionary refreshed weekly
  • •Context-aware: "shoot a movie" vs "shoot a gun"

Music-video frame analysis

  • •Scans 1 frame per second of the official video
  • •Detects weapons, alcohol use, suggestive scenes
  • •Flags strobe-heavy frames for sensory warnings
  • •Optional - disable if you only listen audio-only

Official metadata

  • •Parental advisory tags from labels
  • •MPA & BBFC equivalent ratings for videos
  • •ISRC + UPC content classifications
  • •Cross-checks with platform-supplied flags

Community signal

  • •Parent-reported overrides feed back into ratings
  • •"Bad miss" reports trigger re-scans within 6 hours
  • •Schools see verified-educator consensus
  • •Anonymous - no listening history is shared
The verdict math

We tell you how sure we are.

Every verdict comes with a confidence score from 0 to 1. Above 0.90 we auto-apply. Between 0.55-0.90 we flag for your review. Below 0.55, a human checker handles it before anything reaches your kids.

You can move the thresholds yourself in your profile settings - strict households slide everything up, relaxed households slide the auto-clean threshold down.

Auto-apply0.90 → 1.00
Verdict applied silently. ~84% of tracks.
Flag for review0.55 → 0.90
Marked with a reason. ~14% of tracks.
Human review0.00 → 0.55
Held back until a reviewer signs off. ~2%.
Multi-source
Lyrics, audio and video frames combined
Fast
Most playlists scan in seconds
English-first
More languages coming soon
Human-checked
Reviewers catch what models miss

Want to see it run on a real playlist?

Free, no signup. Bring a YouTube link.

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