Google Kids' Space

Google LLC

About this app

Google Kids Space is a tablet experience with a custom home screen and library of quality content for children under nine. Children have the ability to customise their experience with unique avatars and receive content recommendations based on their interests, while parents can set boundaries with parental controls.

Google Kids Space requires a Google Account for your child and a compatible Android device.

Teacher-approved apps and games
Google Kids Space comes with apps and games from Google Play that have been approved by teachers and children's education and media specialists. Teacher Approved apps are age-appropriate, thoughtfully designed, and fun or inspiring.

For parents who want flexibility beyond Google Kids Space recommendations, you can add even more content from the Google Play Store through the parents' menu.

Books handpicked by children's book experts
A catalogue from Play Books has been expertly curated to inspire a love of reading. With delightful titles and characters you'll recognise, there are classic books and brand new stories covering topics from trucks to ballet. Children can find new interests or revisit some of their favourite stories again and again.

Recommended videos with enriching content
Children can get inspired to create, discover and practice their skills with videos from YouTube Kids that spark hands-on creativity and play. They'll find videos about everything from simple drawing activities to silly science projects. Whether they want to learn, sing or laugh, children can explore videos about the topics and characters they love.

Designed with children's curiosity in mind
Whether it's animals or art projects, kids become little experts on the things they love. Google Kids Space is designed to help them explore their latest fascinations and learn even more, in new and engaging ways. Children can even customise their experience by creating their own character, who they'll see on-screen when they log in.

Set boundaries with parental controls
With parental controls in the Family Link app from Google, you can guide your child’s experience by managing content from Google Play, setting screen time limits and more, all from your own device.

Important information
Google Kids Space replaces your children's tablet home screen with an experience that helps children organise the content they know and love into tabs for apps and games, videos and books. Google Kids Space can be turned off at any point from within the parent menu.

Google Kids Space requires a Google Account for your child. Parental controls require the Family Link app on a supported Android, Chromebook or iOS device. Availability of features may differ by region. Google Kids Space is available for select Android tablets. Google Assistant is not available in Google Kids Space.

Books and video content may not be available in all regions. Video content subject to availability of YouTube Kids app. Book content requires the Play Books app. Availability of app, books and video content may change without notice.

Ratings and reviews

I particularly like the fact they can have a walled version of the Play Store - especially since I can block free games with ads even showing up. But please please please add the service to more devices. I don't know why it's not available for all??

Well suited for smaller kids. Had Nova Launcher set up for my child at first and it worked ok, but migrating him to his own account/profile has been a revelation. He's finding more useful and educational content. And it's a lot easier for me to manage what apps get suggested/installed. Setting up multiple Android Profiles on the same device has also been a revelation. It's a lot to set up and be aware of, so I understand why some parents are confused and can't get it to work the way they want. Wish I could add YouTube Kids content. There are 4 age categories, but I can manually add additional content like I can in the YouTube Kids app on my phone. Enabling search kind of helps though. Wish I could set up a kids space on my phone too!

So... Just like assistant, why exactly is this a system app that I cannot remove or disable auto updates to? My kid has a kid's device. There is no reason for this to be a system app. It's bad enough companies and carriers push enough of their bloat ware onto everybody. Please don't start doing it as well. As if not being able to completely rid my device of that wretched assistant app wasn't bad enough...

What's new

Several bug fixes and stability improvements.