For iPhone and iPad
Sprout Pocket is an iPhone and iPad app where parents choose the YouTube videos and websites their children can open. Share something from your phone, and it appears in your child’s library on their iPad.
In development. Not on the App Store yet.
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Set up once. After that, anything you find in YouTube or Safari is a share away from your child’s library.
Sign in, create your family, and add your child with a name and a symbol. Mark your phone as a parent device. Children don’t have their own accounts.
On the iPad, choose “Connect child device.” Scan its QR code with your iPhone, or type the code, then pick your child. The iPad asks “Is this your family?” before it connects.
In YouTube or Safari, tap Share and choose Sprout Pocket. Pick your child and, if you like, a collection.
It shows up in that child’s library on the iPad, first in line under New for You.
Sharing keeps working after you close the app. Your phone does need a connection when you share, because nothing is saved to send later.
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.
Each child profile is a name and a symbol: leaf, sun, moon, star, paw or bird. No photos.
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.
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.
Your child taps “Parents” on the iPad to ask for parent access. Open Sprout Pocket on your phone and approve it under Requests. After five minutes, the iPad goes back to your child’s library.
Access ends after five minutes or when you leave Sprout Pocket.
See your family’s paired devices from Devices.
Pair it once, then switch whose library it shows from Devices. It shows one child at a time.
Invite another parent with a private invitation you send yourself.
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.
In development. Not on the App Store yet.
For iPhone and iPad · iOS and iPadOS 17 or later