Built by parents, for parents

Pods for Kids started from a genuinely annoying problem: finding a podcast your kids will actually like, that you can also stand, is much harder than it should be. App store charts tell you what's popular. They don't tell you whether a show is too scary for a four-year-old, whether the songs will lodge in your head for a month, or whether it holds up on a long drive.

Where the reviews come from

We collect public parent reviews from podcast platforms — currently Apple Podcasts across multiple country storefronts, which is where the overwhelming majority of written kids podcast reviews live. Every review we show is quoted with its author and links back to where it was written. We don't write reviews ourselves and present them as parents'.

How the summaries work

The modules on each show page — what it's about, the tone, why parents reach for it, which ages are listening — are produced by scanning the text of those reviews for recurring phrases. When a module says “works at bedtime, mentioned in 40 reviews”, it means forty people raised bedtime in their own words, unprompted. We show the sentence behind the claim so you can judge it yourself.

We deliberately show counts rather than percentages. Nobody mentions everything in a review, so a share would read like a score out of 100 and make a strong signal look like a bad mark. The bars show how the topics rank against each other; the number tells you how many people actually said it.

Where a show has only a few reviews, we label the confidence as low and you should treat the summary as a hint rather than a verdict. We would rather show you a thin result honestly than pad it.

How we rank

Rankings weight a show's average rating against how many people rated it, so a perfect score from three ratings doesn't leapfrog a 4.7 from twelve thousand.

Get in touch

Spotted a show we're missing, or something we've got wrong? Tell us — this gets better the more parents pitch in.