Happly is a Safe Media Platform for Kids
With the seemingly limitless information and media available online for anyone to see, parents know how difficult it can be to find quality content online that is safe for children. Along with all of the good content that is available, it can be quite a chore to wade through all of the mind-numbing games and inappropriate videos. Happly is an app from Daily Interactive, a company that produces digital apps and content as well as interactive products for large tech companies, that seeks to provide a solution. It is an app that focuses on developing more educational content for the iPad to help parents assuage some of their guilt over their kids’ ever-increasing screen time, but with some features that distinguish it from rivals.
Happly is a free app with mobile tech support features making it suitable for iOS devices. Its creators designed it to help kids safely explore the Internet while finding high-quality content from National Geographic photographers, award-winning child book illustrators, top-notch chefs and more. It offers a collection of original and curated content for kids, including online videos, games, and stories. It is unlike similar apps in that, rather than simply bundling its content into one large collection, parents can administer the app by setting up PIN-protected profiles where they customize what their children see. The categories, which include things like “Did you know,” “How to do Stuff,” “Space & Beyond,” “Weird & Wacky,” “Funny Videos,” and more, can all be toggled on and off as the parent chooses.
As noted, some content comes from web sources while other content is original. For example, the app’s creators added an informational graphic to augment a collection of stories about a famous director’s dive to the Mariana Trench. On another piece, they worked with a National Geographic photographer to develop his lifelong study of African elephants into a kid-friendly format. It is also special in that parents can add their own discoveries to the app, with features that let them search for new stories via an in-app browser or new videos from an in-app “add YouTube video” button. Since the entire purpose of Happly is to provide Internet security for children online, these features are only available from the parents’ login, however. Since parents set up profiles for each child, the child can only view the approved content, not search for new items.
Another interesting feature is an in-app messaging system that allows parent and child to communicate by leaving messages for each other. This way, a tablet does not merely reproduce the passive television viewing experience, but can be a platform for two-way communication and learning combined.
Mobile devices are a great addition to family entertainment, but it is difficult to stay aware of everything children are seeing. Happly is an iOS app that helps families share the best content on the Internet and avoid uncensored websites, violent games and inappropriate videos.
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