Problem
YouTube Kids isn't actually safe for kids
While YouTube has some good educational videos, it's also full of inappropriate content. Unfortunately Youtube Kids does an awful job of curating content for kids.
These are real screenshots of the Recommended tab on the YouTube Kids iOS app, taken as of Nov 29th, 2024. The active child profile is for a 5 year old.
Solution
Introducing Paladin Kids
Create profiles for your kids
Paladin curates age-appropriate videos for each child profile independently. Create unlimited profiles.
Set up your own filters
Create filters based on your family values. Paladin uses AI to analyze each video against your filters.
Your kids are protected
They can now watch anything from arts & crafts to sports to music, all without seeing content you don't want them to see.
How it works
How Paladin uses cutting edge AI to keep your kids safe:
1. Safety-check search terms
Before running any searches, Paladin Kids first checks your kid's search term against your current filters to determine if it's actually safe to run or not.
2. Search YouTube
Paladin then searches and fetches the first batch of relevant videos from YouTube.
3. Extract transcripts
A transcript is a textual record of everything said in a video.
4. Run your filters on each video in real-time
While YouTube Kids curates content based on video titles and descriptions, Paladin Kids looks at everything being said in the video to determine whether or not it's appropriate.
Benefits
Easily manage screen time
Testimonials
What our users say
Shannie B.
Director of Operations
I'm genuinely surprised, the filtering actually works the way you expect!
Joel K.
Founder, Investor
We helped build Paladin, and our oldest son Adam uses it frequently to answer questions like "What do hippos eat?".
Drew S.
Director, Educator
The Paladin team is onto something. This is a big problem that affects nearly parent, and I haven't seen anything else do this.
David R.
Principal Engineer
Our little one figured out how to go into Youtube and start randomly clicking ads. Now we just use Paladin and don't even have Youtube anymore!
Ken G.
Account Executive
Had a couple of recommendations for the app, the Paladin team built and launched them by the end of the week. Love it!
Christina D.
Marketing Expert
I absolutely hate ads, I don't want my kids to get into anything materialistic. I'd pay anything to avoid commercials, so Paladin was a no brainer.
Mike S.
Executive Director
Search sometimes takes a while, but the filtering works well!
Mark E.
Principal Real Estate
Normally we just ban YouTube and YouTube kids, but Paladin has given us a way to keep the kids entertained safely when we go out.
Austin G.
COO
Easy to use, clean interface, and gets the job done.
Evan D.
Founder, Investor
We normally don't let the kids watch TV if we're not in the room. Paladin Kids gives us the confidence to let them explore a bit more on their own.
Jon O.
Founder
We needed a timer feature before we could use Paladin, and they built it in 2 days! 🤯
Ruben T.
Entrepreneur
We used to pay for YT Premium, but stopped and have just been watching Netflix and Disney+. Paladin makes it easy for us to use YT videos again.