You choose
Set the purpose and the time
Pick what today's session is for, whether that's reading, numbers, a song, or a drawing, and how long it lasts. Daily limits or a single session, it's yours to set.
For families with children aged 2 to 12
Purposeful screen time.Stronger young minds.
Yodiah is a family learning app where you decide what screen time is for. Stories, songs, games, quizzes, and creative play are designed to be safe, inside a session you set - right down to how it ends.
Join the waitlistAndroid, iOS and TV. Launching in the Netherlands first.
Why we're building it
Most children's apps are built to hold attention for as long as possible. Yodiah is built around the limit you set.
Digital media can teach and delight. But most of it is designed to hold a child's attention, not to help a family use screens with intention. Yodiah moves the goal: from more minutes on screen to more value inside the minutes you've already decided on.
Yodiah Time
A screen-time routine you can recognise
Safe. Intentional. Enriching. One short session, from your intent to a calm ending.
They enter
A curated world, not a feed
Your child lands in a space shaped by their age and your intent. Stories, songs, games and creative tools are chosen by people. There is no open-ended discovery to drift into.
They learn and make
Watching and doing, side by side
A story is followed by a question. A song by a game. A lesson by something to draw. Active and passive balance is built in, so children take pauses from the screen while still using it.
It winds down
A warm ending, prepared in advance
Gentle prompts let your child know the session is coming to a close, in time to finish what they started. No cliff, no bargaining, no surprise cut-off.
You see it
A short summary, not a dashboard of minutes
What they explored, what they made, and one practical suggestion for next time. Enough to feel involved, without turning screen time into homework for you.
Parent sets a session
What's inside
Learn, create, grow, protect
Learn
Literacy, numbers, science and history through stories, songs and short quizzes, matched to your child's stage.
- Literacy and numeracy
- Science and history
- Short quizzes
Create
Digital art and hands-on activities that turn what they've watched into something they've made.
- Drawing canvas
- Active participation
- Imagination
Grow
Resilience, responsibility and age-appropriate values woven into the content, not bolted on.
- Resilience
- Responsibility
- Age-appropriate values
Protect
A curated environment, parent controls, and transitions designed to end a session gently.
- Curated environment
- Parent controls
- Healthy transitions
One Yodiah, five stages
Built for the child they are right now
Content is designed around developmental stage, not one experience stretched across ten years. Every stage follows the same rhythm: watch, sing, play, do.
2–3
Toddler
- Learning focus
- Routines, self-care, naming, imitation
- Content style
- Simple stories, repetition, songs, strong visuals
4–5
Preschool
- Learning focus
- Independence, emotions, social skills, early literacy
- Content style
- Short narratives, humour, choices, interactive play
6–7
Early primary
- Learning focus
- Reading, numeracy, friendship, responsibility
- Content style
- Stronger plots, quizzes, explanations, problem-solving
8–9
Middle childhood
- Learning focus
- Critical thinking, knowledge, teamwork, resilience
- Content style
- Mysteries, challenges, projects, factual exploration
10–12
Preteen
- Learning focus
- Identity, digital citizenship, complex social-emotional skills
- Content style
- Scenario stories, discussion, independent activities
Watch→Sing→Play→Do
What we heard from parents
The trade-off every parent knows
102minutes a day
Dutch parents report children aged 0 to 6 spend an average of 102 minutes a day on digital media in 2026. The quality and boundaries of that time are a daily family question.
Time
Too much, too early
Screen time arrives before the habits to manage it. Parents want boundaries that hold without a fight at the end.
Choice
Discovery becomes drift
Algorithmic recommendations extend viewing past what a parent intended, and take the next choice out of their hands.
Value
Learning is fragmented
Videos here, games there, a language app, a drawing app, and screen controls somewhere else. Nothing holds it together.
Sources: Nederlands Jeugdinstituut; Netwerk Mediawijsheid, Mediaopvoeding & -begeleiding, 2026.
Multilingual by design
Language is part of the learning, not an afterthought
Yodiah localises the whole experience: voice, songs, captions, activities and parent guidance, rather than subtitling a video. English comes first, then Dutch and Yoruba, with more languages added as families ask for them.
- At launch
- English
- Next
- Dutch, Yoruba
- On the roadmap
- Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, Swahili
Schools, educators and partners
Help us prove a better standard for children's screen time
Yodiah's first year is a sequence of evidence-building pilots with a focused cohort of families. We're looking for people who work with children and want to shape what purposeful screen time should mean.
Pilot and research network
Parents, educators and child-development experts who can take part in structured beta validation and tell us plainly what works.
Schools and family networks
Classrooms, after-school programmes and parent communities in the Netherlands who want to trial Yodiah Time with real families.
Content and language partners
Educators, animators and native-language specialists who can help localise the experience, starting with Dutch and Yoruba.
Start a conversation
We read every message ourselves.
hello@yodiah.com
One email, once
Be there when Yodiah Time begins.
One family plan, every child profile included. Planned at €9.99 a month, with an annual option. Final pricing is confirmed at launch.
Launching in the Netherlands first, on Android, iOS and TV. Waitlist families are invited to the first beta and get first access when we open.