Khan Academy Kids

Is Khan Academy Kids safe?

Yes. Khan Academy Kids is about as close to a safe default as children's apps get. It is free, made by a nonprofit, and has no ads, no purchases, no chat and nothing uploaded by other users. We score it 80/100, level with PBS KIDS at the top of the children's apps we have reviewed and ahead of Toca Boca World (73) and Lingokids (69).

The points it loses are about paperwork rather than risk. Deleting your child's data takes a web form, the privacy policy has not been updated since December 2023, and Khan Academy publishes little about how it secures accounts.

Why the business model matters

Most children's apps make money from parents, through subscriptions, in-app packs or ads, and that shapes the design. Khan Academy Kids does none of these. The App Store listing promises "no ads, no subscriptions", and the privacy policy says the organisation set itself up as a nonprofit so that "education and your trust will not be in conflict with a for-profit motive".

In practice that removes the pressures that hold back other apps in this group. There is no paywall for a child to run into, no shop to tap and no adverts between activities. The content, more than 5,000 games, books and videos for ages 2 to 8, is made by Khan Academy, not drawn from an open platform like YouTube Kids.

What it collects

Very little, and Apple's privacy label shows it. Every data type on the label sits under "Data Not Linked to You": identifiers, usage data, name, email and performance data. Nothing is listed as used to track you.

The privacy policy fills in the detail:

• From the child: a name and an age, entered by the parent. Khan Academy recommends a nickname or "silly name" instead of the child's real name.
• From the parent: an email address, and the IP address and approximate location at city or zip-code level when the email is verified and the account is created.
• Usage: which activities are used and for how long, to personalise lessons and sync progress across devices.

The policy says child data is not used for marketing or advertising and is not shared with third parties for their own purposes, and that Khan Academy does not sell personal information. Data is hosted on servers in the United States.

One thing parents may not expect: outside the app, Khan Academy may run interest-based ads for Khan Academy Kids on other sites and on Facebook and other social networks. The policy says those ads are not based on what you or your child do in the app.

School accounts

Teachers can set up classes in the app. In that case the school controls the account, a teacher may enter a username and grade, and rostering services such as Clever may pass on the child's name, class and teacher. Parents who want school data changed or deleted are directed to the school, and the school deletes data by removing the child from the roster or emailing [email protected]. Deleting the app from a child's device does not remove the child's progress from the teacher's class.

Security

Khan Academy Kids holds little that a criminal would want. Google Play says data is encrypted in transit, and we found no reported breach of the app. Khan Academy runs a vulnerability disclosure programme on HackerOne that pays no bounty; its scope covers khanacademy.org sites and the main Khan Academy apps, without naming Khan Academy Kids. Khan Academy added two-step login with an authenticator app to its main accounts in August 2026, but Khan Academy Kids parent accounts are separate and not linked, and the Kids help centre offers no two-step login in October 2026. A strong unique password matters, or sign in with a Google or Apple account that has two-step verificationTwo-factor authenticationSigning in with a second proof of identity on top of your password, such as a code from an app, a security key or a passkey.More in the glossary.

How to set up Khan Academy Kids safely

1. Use a nickname for your child's profile, as Khan Academy itself recommends.
2. Give the parent account a unique password, or sign in with Google or Apple, since Khan Academy Kids offers no two-step login of its own.
3. Set screen-time limits with your device's own controls, such as Screen Time on iPhone or Family Link on Android.
4. When your child moves on, ask Khan Academy to delete the data through the contact form linked from the privacy policy.

How we scored it

Scams and harmful content (92) and privacy (86) are Khan Academy Kids' strongest factors: no ads, no chat, no purchases and no data linked to the user on Apple's label. The regulatory record (87) is clean, but no regulator has examined the app. Transparency and control (70) is the weakest factor, because deletion needs a web form and the policy has not been refreshed since 2023.