An answer for every parent.
A clinical partner program. No child data sold. Free for every family — a purposeful screen time answer you can hand off at every well-child visit.
- Kids build healthy habits between visits
- Free for every family
- No child data sold
Important: KudoKids is a digital wellbeing platform — not a medical device, a clinical intervention, or a screening or treatment tool, and not a substitute for professional medical advice. The clinical track is non-commercial: no commission, no revenue share, no license packs, no directory placement, and nothing of value flowing to you for a recommendation. The Letter of Understanding includes a multi-option recommendation commitment. You remain responsible for your state licensing board's rules on endorsements.
Tasks, Coins, Games — That's the Loop
Parents set routines and tasks
Chores, reading goals, wellness habits — configured once.
Kids earn Kudo Coins
Completed tasks earn coins. Educational games earn them back.
Screen time self-regulates
Fun games cost coins. No timers, no fights — kids budget themselves.
Tap any screen to see it full size.
Free plan available for families — tasks, games, wellness tools, and the parent dashboard cost nothing.
Before the program details: three things that change for the child first, and what each one changes in the room with the family.
Earned, not confiscated
The child stops negotiating for the tablet and starts finishing things to get to it — and the part that sticks is the finishing. Screen time becomes something a kid worked toward instead of the thing the household fights over.
Why this works
The family stops arriving with the same complaint, because your screen-time answer became something they did rather than something they nodded at in the room.
The entire loop is free — routines and real responsibilities, the Kudo Coins kids earn for finishing them, and the off-app device time a parent configures with a countdown — so nothing about a family's budget sits between your recommendation and their first day.
In a longitudinal cohort of 9,971 U.S. children followed from kindergarten to third grade, children who rarely did household chores had greater odds of scoring in the bottom fifth on self-reported prosocial behavior, academic ability, peer relationships, and life satisfaction. The study measured household chores in children roughly aged 5–9, and its findings are associational rather than causal. White, DeBoer & Scharf, 2019, Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 40(3), 176–182.View source →Screen time that adds something
The hours are not going away, so the question worth asking is what the child comes out of them with. This is a screen a kid leaves having built a word, told the time, sorted something, or steered a story to an ending they chose.
Why this works
You get to answer the question with something other than “less” — which is the answer the family in front of you has already tried, already failed at, and stopped raising.
The growing library of learning games that pay coins by score, the branching stories, the songs and the companion read-aloud are all in the free plan — the parent isn't choosing between quality and cost.
In a meta-analysis of 42 studies covering 18,905 children, greater screen time was associated with weaker child language skills, while educational programming and co-viewing with a caregiver were associated with stronger ones. The associations are small, language-specific, and not causal, and the co-viewing finding is about a caregiver being present. Madigan, McArthur, Anhorn, Eirich & Christakis, 2020, JAMA Pediatrics, 174(7), 665–675.View source →A kid who has words for it
A child who can say “today was bad” instead of slamming a door. The daily check-in is never scored and never graded — the companion just answers warmly — and afterward the child can breathe, meditate, or simply stay a while.
Why this works
A fair share of what lands in your room is a parent who cannot get anything out of their kid; a small daily habit of naming a feeling gives that family something to talk about before it becomes something to bring to you.
The check-in, the comfort flow, and the affirmations and meditations are free, and they run only in the categories the parent approves. None of it is an assessment or a screener — there is no score to read, and nothing is routed to you.
In a study following economically disadvantaged children, the ability to recognize and label emotion expressions at age 5 predicted social behavior and academic competence at age 9, even after accounting for verbal ability and temperament. The finding is predictive and associational, in an at-risk sample. Izard, Fine, Schultz, Mostow, Ackerman & Youngstrom, 2001, Psychological Science, 12(1), 18–23.View source →
These citations are the research behind how KudoKids is designed. The researchers and institutions named have not endorsed or evaluated KudoKids, and we make no claim about results for children who use it.
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Everything that's in the app
A concrete answer to the screen time question families bring to every well-child visit — growth across the whole child, full parental visibility, no ads. Every functional feature is free for families.
A Purposeful Answer to the Screen Time Question Families Ask at Every Visit
Parents of children ages 3–12 consistently ask pediatricians about screen time. KudoKids gives you a concrete, structured answer — a platform designed so the time a child spends in it goes toward something, with full parental visibility and control.
Present it as one option among several — the partnership is built that way
You're never locked into recommending KudoKids exclusively. The Letter of Understanding commits to multi-option framing — KudoKids is one tool in the conversation, not a prescription.
What partners receive, and how to start
Families Leave With an Answer
Families sign up directly at kudokids.org and every functional feature is free, so a family can start the same afternoon — nothing to purchase, nothing to hand out, nothing standing between the recommendation and their first day.
Recommend Without Second-Guessing
Clinical partners have no financial relationship with KudoKids of any kind, and the Letter of Understanding — built for medical practice standards — is signed digitally in minutes.
One Option Among Several
The Letter of Understanding commits to multi-option framing, so you present KudoKids alongside other behavioral support options rather than as an exclusive recommendation.
Shape the Platform
Early access means your clinical perspective goes directly into how the app develops for the families you serve.
Clinical Questions Answered
Questions about a specific family's situation? Reach the KudoKids team directly.
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Common Questions
A Letter of Understanding (not a commercial agreement) and a direct line to the KudoKids team for clinical questions. That's the whole list — the clinical track is deliberately non-commercial, so there are no license packs, no directory placement, and nothing of value flowing to you for a recommendation. Families sign up directly at kudokids.org.
No. Clinical partners have no financial relationship with KudoKids of any kind: no commission, no revenue share, no license packs, nothing discounted or paid to you, and no directory placement. The commission track exists only for commercial partners, and clinicians aren't on it — so there is nothing flowing to you that could sit behind a recommendation.
No — the opposite. Your Letter of Understanding includes a multi-option recommendation commitment: you present KudoKids as one of several behavioral support options, not as an exclusive recommendation.
There is no payment, discount, or other compensation to disclose — nothing of value comes back to you for recommending KudoKids. If you sign the Letter of Understanding, you do hold a named non-commercial relationship with us, so we give you plain disclosure language in the partner portal for patient handouts and any promotional materials. Your state licensing board and employer rules still govern.
Applications are reviewed within 3–5 business days. You'll receive an email when your application is approved. Your Letter of Understanding is signed in the partner portal after approval.
No. KudoKids is completely free for families. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) is optional — it gives kids an in-app place to spend the Kudo Coins they earn (themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras) instead of every coin becoming a request for more screen time or another real-world reward parents have to invent, and it gives parents KudoKids AI, a setup assistant that drafts routines and rewards for their approval; kids can never talk to it.
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