Every category has a list of what we catch and a list of what we deliberately leave alone, so the playlist still sounds like music your kid actually wants to hear.
Curse words and slurs, including the spellings that try to sneak past a plain word search.
Word-matching is why most filters are useless. They block a power-metal track for slaying a dragon, flag a protest song for naming the thing it is protesting, and wave through a track that never swears but spends three minutes rating women out of ten.
We score each category on what the song is actually doing. Fantasy battles read as adventure. A song that names a harm in order to reject it is not treated like one that celebrates it. And a clean-sounding song that demeans people still gets caught, because discrimination is scored separately from language.
Each preset sets every category to allow, ask me, or never. Override any single category without losing the rest of the preset, and give each child or each class its own.
Catches the obvious. Good for older kids and mixed-age rooms where you mostly want the language gone.
The sensible middle, and where most families and studios land. Start here and adjust.
Tighter on every category. Built for younger listeners and for rooms where parents are watching.
The most protective setting we offer. If in doubt, it keeps the track out.
This is what comes back. The profanity result is what gets it flagged, so you can decide in seconds instead of playing the track to find out.
Screening the lyrics is only half of it. Our browser extension quiets the page around the video, and every one of these is a per-profile switch rather than all-or-nothing.
Hidden on the watch page, including the newer engagement panels YouTube keeps moving them into.
The right-hand rail and the mobile equivalent, so the next thing is your choice rather than an algorithm’s.
The wall of thumbnails at the end of a song, creator end cards, and the up-next countdown that starts something you did not pick.
Shorts shelves and the search dropdown, which is its own rabbit hole on a shared device.
We would rather tell you now than have you find out later. Everything below is planned, none of it is live, and nothing above depends on it.
Catching the adult-targeted ad that turns up in the middle of a perfectly fine video.
English is covered today. Other languages are rolling out after launch.
Paste a link from the service you already use. YouTube is live today.
KidSafeTube is a parental tool, not a censor. We block what you tell us to. Defaults err on the side of "let the song through".
When we cannot read a track properly, we say "couldn't analyze" instead of guessing, and you can choose to have those held back automatically. It is an assistive tool rather than a guarantee, and we recommend an adult stays the final judge of what children listen to.