Sprout Pocket

Hand-picked.
By you. Every time.

Find a video or website on your iPhone and share it to Sprout Pocket. It appears on your child’s iPad, and nothing else does.

See how it works Built for safety

Most apps for kids start with everything and ask you to take things away. Sprout Pocket starts empty. You add what belongs.

How it works

From your iPhone
to their iPad.

Set up once. After that, anything you find in YouTube or Safari is a share away from your child’s library.

  1. Step 1

    Add your child.

    Sign in on your iPhone, create your family, and add your child with a name and a symbol. Children don’t have their own accounts.

  2. Step 2

    Pair their iPad.

    On the iPad, choose “Connect child device.” Scan its QR code with your iPhone, or type the code, and pick your child. The iPad asks “Is this your family?” before it connects.

  3. Step 3

    Share what you find.

    In YouTube or Safari, tap Share and choose Sprout Pocket. Pick your child and, if you like, a collection. It appears in their library.

Sharing keeps working after you close the app. Your phone needs a connection when you share, because nothing is saved to send later.

The child’s library

One child.
One library.

Your child’s iPad opens to a grid of cards you filled. They open only what you added, and each child’s library is their own.

New for You

The newest things you approved, first.

Watch

The YouTube videos you approved.

Explore

The websites you approved.

Collections

Named groups like Science or Drawing. Up to 50 per child, with 100 items in each.

Ask your parent

Your child asks in their own words. The request doesn’t search the web or add anything. You read it, then share something if you want to.

Minecraft iron farm

A name and a symbol.

Each child profile is a name plus a leaf, sun, moon, star, paw or bird. No photos.

Staying on the chosen item

It opens what you picked.
And stays there.

Videos play inside Sprout Pocket.

When a video ends, your child can replay it or go back to the library. YouTube may still show related videos and links in the player, but tapping them doesn’t open another video, page or app.

Websites stay on the approved page.

A web page opens in a viewer limited to that page. A link off it shows a short notice for a few seconds instead. Approving one page doesn’t approve the whole site.

Changed your mind? Remove an item from your phone and it leaves that child’s library. Other children’s copies stay until you remove them too.

Safe by design.

These protections are part of how Sprout Pocket works. There are no settings to turn on.

  • Only what you approve.

    Your child’s library starts empty. Every video and website in it was shared by a parent in your family.

  • No wandering off.

    Videos play inside the app and links off an approved page don’t open. There’s no browser and no search bar.

  • Your sign-in stays with you.

    Your parent account is never stored on your child’s iPad. The iPad gets its own key, limited to one child’s library and kept in the device Keychain.

  • Checked on every request.

    Permissions are enforced on our servers, not just in the app. A child’s iPad can read only that child’s library, and can’t add or remove anything.

  • No accounts for kids.

    A child profile is a name and a symbol. No email, no birthday, no photo.

  • No feed. No strangers.

    Sprout Pocket has no comments, messaging, public catalog or recommendations. It’s your family’s shelf, and no one else’s.

For parents

You stay in charge.
From your phone.

  • Five-minute Parent Mode

    Your child taps “Parents” on the iPad to ask for parent access. You approve it under Requests on your phone, with no PIN for a child to learn. After five minutes, the iPad goes back to their library.

  • Every device in one list

    See your family’s paired devices in Devices.

  • One shared iPad

    Pair it once, then switch whose library it shows from Devices. It shows one child at a time.

  • A second parent

    Invite another parent with a private invitation that you send yourself.

A curated pocket library
for one family.

Sprout Pocket isn’t a browser or a Screen Time replacement. It’s a small shelf of videos and websites you chose, inside one app. It needs a network connection to load the library and play videos.

Coming soon to iPhone and iPad