How it works

One app. Three views.

A child creates. A parent approves. A school stays in touch. Here's the whole flow, screen by screen, from the real app.

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Kids never sign themselves up. Every child's account is created by a parent or guardian.

The YoungCreator welcome screen: Create. Share. Shine., with a Parent or Guardian sign-up option and the line Kids' accounts are always created by a parent or guardian.

Three views

The same app looks different to each of you

One account per person, and each one shows only what that person should see.

A child's YoungCreator feed, with their story ring, their own approved posts and a red SOS button.

For your child

A feed of buddies you approved, a profile you set up, and a red SOS button that reaches the adults you chose.

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A parent's YoungCreator dashboard showing four requests waiting for review and a card for each child.

For parents

One dashboard for every child: what's waiting for your yes, what they've been doing, and how close they are to their screen-time limit.

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The YoungCreator School Manager home screen, with student and teacher counts and the onboarding checklist.

For schools

Attendance the parents actually see, homework and announcements sent to one class, and messages tagged to a child.

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Loop one

The approval loop

1

Nothing goes public until a parent says yes

Your child writes a post and taps share. Nothing happens yet. The post is held, and a request lands with you.

You see it as a count on your dashboard, before anything else on the screen: four requests are waiting for you. Open one and you can read exactly what your child wrote. Approve it and it goes live to their buddies. Do nothing and it stays private.

Posts, stories, comments and buddy requests all take this route. So do profile edits: if your child changes their name, username or photo, the change is held and the old version stays until you approve it.

Settings also hold a daily or weekly round-up, at a time you pick, telling you how many unread notifications are waiting. The requests wait on your dashboard until you get to them, however you set it.

A child's feed showing the posts of theirs that a parent has already approved.

The child's side. Their feed, and the posts that went live once a parent said yes.

A parent's pending request list: Sita has requested permission to publish a new post, and to send a buddy request to Casey Webb.

The parent's side. The same moment, on your phone: “Sita has requested permission to publish a new post.”

Loop two

The buddy loop

2

A friendship needs four yesses

Children cannot add each other on their own. One connection takes four separate approvals, in this order:

  1. 1 Your child finds a buddy and sends a request.
  2. 2 You approve it before it is delivered.
  3. 3 The other child accepts.
  4. 4 Their parent approves too. Only then are the two children connected.

Two children, two families, four yesses. If any one of them declines, the connection simply never exists, and neither child can message or comment across it.

The Find Buddies screen in the child's app, listing other children with an add button beside each one.

Loop three

The school loop

3

When the school is on YoungCreator too

A second view opens up inside the same app. Nothing else changes: the approvals, the buddies and the screen-time limits work exactly as before.

The teacher marks the class present, absent, late or excused and hits submit. You see the result on your child's card the same morning, and you get a notification when they arrive at school, down to the minute.

Homework, announcements and circulars are posted to one class rather than shouted at the whole school, and they land in your feed and your child's at the same time.

When you need to talk to a teacher, you can message the teachers who actually teach your child, and every message is tagged to that child so it never lands without context. The app refuses any other pairing.

One honest exception. School and class posts are moderated by the school, not held for your approval. Enrolling your child is the consent.

Getting started

Minutes for families, set up with us for schools

1

A parent signs up

Adults open the family account. A child account created any other way is refused outright, by the server, not just hidden in the app.

2

You create each child's account

You add each child and set their age range: 3 to 7, 8 to 12 or 13 to 17. It shapes what they see and what they can do, and only you can change it.

3

Schools are set up with us

Schools don't sign themselves up. We set the school up alongside you: classes, subjects and the timetable, then the roster in one CSV.

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The controls behind it

What a parent actually holds

Every one of these is in the app today. Nothing here is coming soon.

  • Posts, stories, comments and buddy requests all wait for a parent to say yes, apart from school-tagged content, which the school moderates.
  • Profile changes are held too. A new name, username or photo doesn't take effect until it's approved.
  • Age ranges of 3 to 7, 8 to 12 and 13 to 17, chosen by you, shaping what your child sees.
  • Daily or weekly screen-time limits, with a warning as your child gets close to one.
  • View history, so you can look back over what your child has been doing.
  • Comments can be switched off entirely, per child.
  • Pause or delete a child account whenever you want to.
  • Trusted contacts, so a grandparent can see a little without running the account. Adding one requires the parent to be ID-verified.
  • A red SOS button in your child's app that alerts their Safety Circle after a short countdown they can cancel.

Questions parents ask first

Does my child need my permission for everything?

Almost. Posts, stories, comments, buddy requests and profile edits all wait for a parent. There is one honest exception: if your child's school is on YoungCreator, anything tagged to their class is moderated by the school, not held for your approval. That covers the school's own posts, like homework and announcements, and what your child submits back, like a homework submission. Enrolling your child is the consent there.

Can strangers contact my child?

Not through the app. Two children are only connected after four separate approvals, and until that connection exists there is no way to send anything across it. The adults around the account are ones you can name. You add some of them yourself: a second guardian, or a trusted contact such as a grandparent. If your child's school is on YoungCreator, the list also takes in any other active member of that school, because the school side of the app is open to the school's whole active membership: staff, but also other parents and students, rather than their class teacher alone. Our own team can reach accounts too, for moderation and support.

What can my child do without asking me?

Read their feed, see what their approved buddies have shared, react to it, and use the school view if their school is on YoungCreator. On the social side, anything other people would see waits for you first: a post, a story, a comment, a new buddy, a change to their profile.

Do both parents need to approve a friendship?

One approval from each side. The request goes to the sending child's parent first, then the other child accepts, then that child's parent approves. Four yesses in total, spread across two families, and the two children are only connected at the end of it.

Does my child's school need to use YoungCreator?

No. Approvals, buddies and screen-time limits work whether or not the school is involved. If the school does join, an extra school view appears in the same app with attendance, timetable, homework and messaging. Schools are set up with our team rather than signing themselves up, so if yours is interested, put them in touch with us.

Ready to see it from the inside?

Create a parent account, add your child, and set the rules before they post a single thing.

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