USA Today reports that YouTube is planning to launch a new application called YouTube kids on February 23.
It was reported as early as March of last year, but Google confirmed that it was working on such an app in December. The application, which will be free, will run on Android devices only during its start-up.
According to USA Today, the app will be separate from YouTube's main service and feature an original one screen with eight selections from children's TV shows and other popular recommendations.
Kids can search for videos by typing normally in the search or using their voice, a feature that the company expects to be quite popular as many young children cannot type. The application will not be able to search for inappropriate terms, such as the term “sex” for example.
Η Wall Street Journal reports that the app will be announced during the keynote address at the Kidscreen Summit next week.
