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Tintly

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    Comment #49420356

    Yes, there’s a free 24-hour trial, so you can try it out

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    Comment #49420169

    Track it easy is an early calorie tracker for people who count calories to lose weight but find manual logging and corrections too time-consuming, and don’t want to rely on a one-s…

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    Comment #49280686

    Hey, thanks for all the comments. I made KidScreen for my two daughters. They both have their own iPads, and I wanted them to have separate video shelves with only the YouTube vide…

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    Comment #49280666

    KidScreen is a free web app: a parent creates child profiles, pastes the exact YouTube links approved for each child, and gives each child separate sign-in details. The child gets …

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    Comment #49280665

    Thanks — I will take a look at it.

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    Comment #49280664

    It is a browser-based, parent-curated shelf that works together with parental controls.

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    Comment #49280663

    I agree that claiming universal control would be misleading. KidScreen does not intercept other apps or devices; it only controls the shelf inside KidScreen. Whether that narrower …

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    Comment #49280661

    KidScreen cannot become the default inside the native YouTube apps on phones, Apple TV, PlayStation, or other platforms. It works only where the child opens the KidScreen web app i…

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    Comment #49280660

    That is my view as well. KidScreen does not prescribe how much a child should watch; it gives the parent control over the exact videos available.

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    Comment #49280659

    It is for families who already choose to use some video and want tighter control over exactly what is available.

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    Comment #49280658

    Agreed. KidScreen does not replace parental responsibility, supervision, or device-level controls. It is a convenience layer that makes a parent-approved shelf easier to maintain a…

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    Comment #49280656

    That is fair criticism. If someone has to register just to understand what the product does, the public page has failed. The short version is: a parent adds exact YouTube URLs, and…

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    Comment #49280655

    That is already the manual model: the parent creates a separate shelf for each child and adds videos based on that child’s interests. There is intentionally no automated personaliz…

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    Comment #49280654

    It is a free web app and installable PWA, not a native App Store application. The parent manages the shelves in a browser; the child signs in once on their device and can add KidSc…

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    Comment #49280651

    Books are great too. I do not see books and video as mutually exclusive; a small amount of parent-selected educational or creative video can be useful. KidScreen is about making th…

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    Comment #49280650

    That is an interesting direction. KidScreen is currently built for individual families, not school administration, so it does not yet have the provisioning, classroom management, o…

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    Comment #49280649

    YouTube Kids whitelist mode is useful, but KidScreen starts from a different idea: I add exact videos one by one to each child’s separate shelf. I am not approving an entire channe…

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    Comment #49280648

    KidScreen removes the YouTube browsing experience: there is no search, no feed, and no algorithm choosing the next video for the child. I add the exact videos myself, and the child…

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    Comment #49280647

    Thanks — that is a useful request. Co-parent access is not exposed in the current version. Separate parent invitations would let both adults manage the same shelves without sharing…

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    Comment #49280646

    Nice approach. I chose a web app for the same portability reason: the child signs in once in a browser and KidScreen can be added to the Home Screen. That reduces platform-specific…