Spotify Kids Reviews

by Avocado2356

Overall it has some good music, the thing is my parents put me as older kid which I am but when I got on I searched a song that I used to have on my playlist that had not cuss words no bad theme to it but it still wasn’t on there. It made no since we need more variety we can’t have kiddie songs that are on older kids and how much you want to bet almost all older kids don’t listen to Disney music. I’m going on thirteen soon and I love Backstreet Boys but they only have three of there songs and most of them are clean and don’t have a bad theme. You just need more of a variety.

by ALee82

If we want to allow our child to listen to certain music that we approve of but want to shield him from music we don’t approve, then we should be able to set those options up from the beginning, not have only 2 age range options of terribly curated options that cannot be customized.

Y’all have provided some highly inappropriate music in the ‘older kids’ grouping. It’s shocking.

And yet, if my son wants to search his favorite college football team fight song or some other wholesome, harmless instrumental fun song it is nowhere to be found in the search function. What if I want to introduce them to the music of a different culture? What if I’d like to provide them with older generations of classics? There is a world of age appropriate music that is completely inaccessible with a lot of provocative content promoted and showcased in their face.

Stop marketing garbage to kids. Stop pushing mature content on children. Stop curating what you think kids should listen to.

Allow parents to curate and approve and create playlists, and allow children to request approval for certain music. Allow parents to block individual albums and/or songs. Allow parents to proactively review what’s available BEFORE having to go into the listening history and block content.

by Njch

Just reiterating a lot of what was already stated; the inability to cast to Google devices, alone, makes SpotifyKids useless for my family. I can’t use any of the playlists I’ve already built for my children over the years. And the fact that the kids’ account(s) can’t even be it’s own entity is laughable. So even if I could cast their music, only one kid can listen to their music at a time. I pay for Premium but still have to share one account with 3 other children in my household. We shouldn’t need 4 separate emails hooked to 4 separate devices (which we don’t have) to all enjoy our separate content simultaneously. The playlists are hit or miss, but I’m a lot more lenient with the music my children listen to than others. I just wish it could be a more personalized and flexible experience overall.

by Coco Cookie Cat

Okay!sooo-I wanted to get this for my little brother- and, he was searching a BUNCH of songs up and none of them showed up but one Ed-Sheron song. He started just looking up random songs that he knows but only,like, two of them showed up. I mean- a parent could buy this for their 12-year-old kid and than there’s no songs he/she likes. I feel like there should be a button on settings that lets their parent/Guardian (or, in my case, the person that set up their account) conrols what their aloud to listen too. Or something like that- it just makes the music Viralitys bigger for their age/what their aloud to listen to.

Thanks so much

by Cait.88

My husband is the family plan manager which makes it nearly impossible for me to add a playlist to the kids app because it's not recognizing my account as connected to the family plan from SpotifyKids . I'd like to have some playlists set up for my daughter so that it doesn't mess with my recommendations on the regular app. There's no way to switch easily between accounts as far as I can tell on the regular app, and I'd love to have a way to play music for her, especially as she gets older. Why is SpotifyKids lacking intuitive functionality? I get that it's meant to be minimal for kids but it's practically useless for their parents. Please allow both parents to be able to add playlists and not just the manager! And make it easier to do so!

by RCTJJJ

The fact you can’t play it via a nest hub or other voice controlled system is a big negative for parents with younger children which is the main reason we got the upgraded subscription. Wish that was explained first when I signed up. Now the kids have to use our main account to play music so no need to pay for the extra family plan. Also it appears to use the cool feature of rotating each family members playlist would require our children to have an emailed linked account which isn’t really possible so while the family plan advertises really cool features they may not be very practical for most families.

by KP1888

SpotifyKids is practically useless. First, there are two separate age-groups used to classify music and no good way to customize them so my five year old, who likes music in both categories, can only listen to some of what he likes at a time. Please let us set up the filter.

Additionally, there is no ability to bring in music that wasn’t pre-selected, leaving out a lot of what our kids like.

SpotifyKids feels more like a cash grab, requiring 2-year olds to have a separate account, rather than just allowing for parent-controlled content. I know it’s still early but I’m extremely disappointed in SpotifyKids . It does not feel like much thought was put into it. I’m hopeful it will improve but not optimistic.

by D_Roam

Thought this would be good for separating the playlists we play for our little toddler (fun, bedtime, etc.), so the kiddie songs don’t mess up our recommendations. But with no playlists it’s useless for that purpose.

Update 4/7 to developer’s response: Thanks for the response. I did see that I can “heart” songs to add them to a favorites list. However, this doesn’t help because we have multiple playlists (fun, bedtime, etc.). Plus, the fact that it automatically downloads favorited songs was actually a negative for me. I don’t want songs taking up space on my device when I can just stream them.

That said, added a star as a thanks for responding to my feedback :)

by NHMsparx

I paid more for premium family so my kid could have his own playlists (on my phone since he doesn’t have his own device) and not screw up my algorithm however there are hardly any songs available for what he was listening to. In what world do adults need access to infinite Parry Gripp and Minecraft soundtracks but the kids get only a few of those songs to choose from ?? These are KIDS songs. I am going to cancel my premium account and buy my kid his own Pandora.

by Mkd Says

I was hoping to use SpotifyKids to put music on my kids Jooki speaker (a Bluetooth speaker designed for kids to control without screens) while I listened to my own content, but SpotifyKids doesn’t seem to have the ability to create custom playlists with the songs they want, or to be able to find the Bluetooth speaker. It solves none of my problems. I’m stuck using my personal account to play stuff for them. The only thing this is good for (for me) is quickly locating some music that kids will like.

by SBLegs

I really loved the idea of this for my step-daughter but the issue is we don’t just listen to pop music and Disney in this house (though there is nothing wrong with that and we still love those tunes). I have playlists I make just for her with all kinds of fun electronic dance music and UK pop records. I would love to be able to share those playlists with her kids account so I still have control over the content but she is getting a better selection than just radio tunes and Disney soundtracks.

Update to respond to developers: there is no perfect lineup because I don’t want pre-canned options. Parents should have the ability to share parent-approved playlists (read: playlists made my parents) and approve certain artists/albums/Spotify playlists for their kids. There are already parents in here who think the current pop content is too racy, so you’ll never win with a pre-made lineup.

by 🦊🦄🐯🦁🐱🐶

BUT I have been reading other reviews and this one is pretty much the same thing … you can’t get the music that you want ,so I have a suggestion why not make something like a multi question test so that using
the information that the people give you base SpotifyKids ’s music on like if he/she put that they like pop more than rock then put less rock music and more pop music on SpotifyKids , also some of the songs that people want that are perfectly fine and respectable music are never there why not . it’s not rocket science people !!! why not let the user decide what they want?
if it’s for kids then let kids help you improve it !

by TinyBubbles ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

So one day I’m listening to my K-pop and then next day good songs GONE😡! I really love ❤️ K-pop and it’s important to me that I myself can listening to new and old but lovely songs like for K-pop groups I listen to like, TWICE, BTS, Shinee, Red Velvet, BlackPink, K/DA, TXT, and ITZY I would like to hear new songs from these groups. So please add new songs to all of these groups and when I say (one day) I mean like sometime when I got it, OH and YALL GOT RID OF ALL OF THE BTS SONGS THE GOOD ONES😡👎 you better fix this and can also add more songs from shows like on Netflix or something please🙏😤😡🥺😭.

by Cruzhtx 🤠

I tried this out of Curiosity, and found out it has some issues. First of all, I think you should be able to make playlist with the music they have on SpotifyKids . I also think they’re should be more music, like maybe clean music to a specific song. Instead of not putting the song overall. I think this could be a great app for kids, but you do need a little bit more updates.

by Rainbow Girl098

Ok I like listening to music and my mom said it’s perfect for me. I’m trying not to sound mean but I cant find songs like Cradles and Grrrls. It makes me a little frustrated. There’s not a lot of songs from video games like undertale and Mario. I would be happy if you added some more song that are from my suggestions and like those. But SpotifyKids is great. Continue to add songs pls!

by AlaskaChild

Please make this so I can add songs/playlists from my account. We listen to a lot of different genres and I want my daughter to be able to listen to more than just your typical children's songs. I should be able to approve any song I’d like to from my account and share it with her. I can see making her ability to search limited, but as a parent I should also be able to approve songs/artists even if they aren’t typically available for kids.

by Ellie Roma

The reason why I got SpotifyKids is so that it doesn’t mess up my listening in the main app, while my daughter can also listen to her music. They recently added the function to share playlists, which is great!
I know it’s design for kids but I wish SpotifyKids was a bit more intuitive for adults as well, and that my daughter could create her own playlists (other than from liking a song). The repeat button is also something she asked for.
Other than that, it’s a good app with great music curation (you just have look them up or go through the categories).

by Furloydlgdgk

I’m ten and So like “Hhive”. Who want stations I have app for u I use it a lot I and enjoy it every day it has a bunch of kid-friendly stations and also have a bunch of music and you can go through the the music and stations and you can filter it and take out what you don’t want them to see and it has a intense math problem to open it so don’t worry about that but I think you will like it it’s call “iHeartRadio family” also for goodness sake plz add the song called “numb little bug “please it’s my favorite song ever and it pains me that it’s not there and add “can you feel my heart “,just bleep out the bad words,“go to war”, “renegade”by Styx ,“house of the rising suns “by the animals ,

by Appppppppplllllleeee

Ok so let me first say that SpotifyKids is good, and I use it every day,(probably) and I love to use it, but I have a complaint. So we found out about this awesome songs (mostly Hamilton) but some of the songs have like 1 or to words that shouldn’t be in there, if you know what I mean, but my parents are fine with us listening to the songs, but the problem is that there are only THREE of the songs on there!!! Soo my parents have tried to get the rest of the songs on my playlist, but it won’t let them!! Please fix this, because I love listening to MY music, but some of it is not on here 🥺, so please fix this, overall though, great app! Definitely download!! Thanks for reading my review!

by Marcus Bickwermert

My daughter loves SpotifyKids. For this being so new it’s awesome. The developers have been listening to the other reviews I have read. They have already been working hard to make SpotifyKids what everyone is looking for with the changes they have made. The only feedback my 4 year old has given me is that she “wants to make different playlist like daddy does”. I’m very interested to see where this goes. Definitely makes me feel better about paying a family subscription.

by TCON!

Full disclosure: I downloaded this just to see how heinous it was and I wasn’t disappointed. First of all, stop trying to censor the music your kids are listening to. Don’t be your parents, your parents generation didn’t do a good job with anything in the world and they were certainly wrong about censorship. Secondly, as soon as I signed in the first two things listed are “Disney Hits” and “Taylor Swift”, so yeah, SpotifyKids won’t be revisited.

by Wen1217

I downloaded this hoping it was going to ve great for mu daughter but my login is with Facebook and doesn’t have an option. Only with email and password. Hope they fix that soon.

by Andrej R

Pretty tragic user experience, where i don’t know my pass because i used fb to create an account and can’t log in SpotifyKids. Anyway this edge case on your mvp is deleting SpotifyKids and stop paying for this service. I feel bad for the people working on this.

by The Original Scrappy T

I thought that SpotifyKids would have some educational materials or other content to help during the corona virus, but it is essentially a modern Tiger Beat magazine, with a heavy tilt towards Disney music. If you really want your kids to have very easy access to terrible pop music (example: Boy Bands 4-Eva category), then this is SpotifyKids for you.
Give it a miss!

by TheBigBen17

Why should I have to remove a member from my Premium Family Plan to even get passed the intro screens?? I was hoping this would be a place my son could organize his own music, explore new music safely, etc. Instead it seems like a ploy to remove “freeloaders” from plans in hopes they will buy premium plans themselves.

by Clairaudio

No ability to sign in with my facebook account. As a parent and previous family premium plan holder my login information is through facebook. I try to enter my Facebook details in order to create a kids account as instructed and it says my info is incorrect but there is also no login with facebook button. So basically I can’t get in to SpotifyKids to make the kids account and can’t get past the login page. Sends me in circles.

by SFBCBA

I have hoped for a way to separate my child’s music from mine for years so that it will stop ruining all the algorithms in my account. I was so excited about SpotifyKids!

Alas, it is horrible. No way to move the playlists we’ve spent years creating. No access to lots of music he loves that is family-friendly just because it’s not “kids” music 🙄. And no way to cast to a Sonos or Alexa make this pretty useless.

Time to look for a new way to stream...

by Nnylarac

I have an autistic daughter with high anxiety that easily gets stuck on parts of songs. Because of this, I have to be very specific about what she can and cannot listen to. Sorting songs into categories of younger and older kids is fine, but it would be great if I could as a parent limit her to a certain play list that I could add to over time. If this comes in a future update, I’ll re-download but for now it’s not useful for us.

by KristinaP2003

It is a great idea, but I was pretty disappointed that I can’t connect to my Alexa speakers. That makes SpotifyKids completely useless to me. As others said it would be nice to be able to create playlists too. I’m keeping my app in hopes that some updates come out after they read reviews.

by Jeseaca

I’m losing my mind hearing the same songs over and over. My son adds multiple versions of the same songs and I’m about to delete it off his device. I really want to like this and otherwise thing it has tons of potential!

by Desert Squirrel

Clean, straightforward interface. I was disappointed to not see any form of Chromecast support. I have a small speaker in my child’s room and would’ve liked to let it play on there while he goes to sleep

by Quality Feedback 01

Please add streaming to chrome cast.
Would be great if I can have playlists in my parent account that the kids can access read only.

by Jshensjjd

I love SpotifyKids it is so good for kids it haves so good songs. But my only complaint is there no Simon and Garfunkel and I love them please put Simon and Garfunkel on it

by Jmore01

Don’t listen to the haters, perfect for my 6 & 4 year old. No explicit music, all of their favorites. My 6 year old is loving showing his brother his collection of “hearts”. Best of all I don’t have help at all! From one engineer to you all, thank you 🙇