Roo Kids

Roo Kids is a messaging app for kids with parental control

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Roo Kids is a safe & fun instant messaging app for kids with minimum yet critical parental controls. We have an iPad, iPhone and launched an Android version few days ago. Its FREE app. Common Sense Media (leading independent non-profit organization in US giving unbiased information and advice on tech for kids) gave us 4/5 rating for both ease of use for kids and privacy & settings. The 'killer' features are: 1. Parents are notified each time a new contact is added. They can reject or block the friend. They can come back later and do same on the Parental Settings section of app 2. Kids can chat, send doodle, pictures with friends 3. When no friends are online, kids can chat with canned-response chatbots like Puzzle, etc. Puzzle sends kid a puzzle and on request the answer 4. Parent can set bad word filter. If a bad word is used, the app will show *** instead 5. Parents can setup curfew hours during which live chat will not work 6. The support team is an email away :) 7. The app has an iPhone and iPad optimized designs Hope you guys like it enough to talk about it! URL: iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/roo-kids/id853763668?mt=8 and Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rookids.chat