Pick what you'd like your child to work on, like eating veggies, bedtime or brushing teeth. Now and then your child's sidekick brings one up in a chat or a bedtime story, with a reason a child can understand.
AI Sidekick is a voice-first AI for kids aged 4 to 12: conversation, word and number games, and bedtime stories. Settings, goals and alerts sit behind your own PIN.
Habits
You set the goals in the parent area. Your child's sidekick brings them up gently, and you can see what came up.
Choose the things your child finds hard, like going to bed on time, eating veggies, screen time, sharing, tidying up or brushing teeth. Add strengths to notice, like kindness, patience or bravery, or write up to three goals in your own words.
A goal is woven into a chat or a bedtime story at your child's level: a dinosaur who stays up too late has no energy to find breakfast. It's at most once a chat and twice a day, about one bedtime story in three, and it's skipped when your child is sad or upset.
Sidekick never says a parent asked. The habit comes up as part of the chat or the story, with a reason a child can understand.
The parent area shows how often each goal came up this week. No streaks or prizes pulling your child back, and no ads.
For your kid
We describe what Sidekick does and link the research behind each idea. We haven't yet measured Sidekick's own effect on children.
Our word and number games are built as guided play: hints when your child is stuck, the answer after a couple of tries. Research on guided play finds it can teach some early skills better than free play alone.
Children learn language through back-and-forth conversation. Sidekick talks with your child, not at them: short answers, and often a question back.
Spelling and word games give your child practice with words, letter by letter, at their level. Math, spelling and word games get easier or harder to match your child's age.
Vegetables score 3, fruit 2, and junk food costs a heart. It's a game, not a tasting activity: games on their own have not been shown to change what children eat.
Your controls
Studies of how parents guide their kids' media find that rules help with time, and talking with your child about what they did helps most with the risks. Sidekick gives you both: PIN-locked settings, and a weekly view with things to talk about tonight.
A parent or guardian creates the account and gives consent before a child profile can be used. Settings, goals and alerts sit behind your own PIN.
You set the goals for your child's time with Sidekick, and change them whenever you like.
Children learn more from media when a grown-up talks with them about it. The weekly view gives you a few things to ask your child about tonight, next to their moods (never a diagnosis), the goals that came up and any alerts.
After 30 minutes of use, Sidekick suggests a break. Delete a child profile or the whole account at any time.
Alerts
If your child says something that sounds like they may be hurt, bullied or very upset, Sidekick tells them to talk to a grown-up they trust and flags it for you in your parent area.
Pediatricians recommend knowing how your child uses AI; the weekly view shows you what came up. Their guidance
Your child's conversations are theirs and yours. Here's what Sidekick does with their data, and what it never does.
Every detail, including which AI providers handle messages, is in the privacy policy.
This is the real 3D character from the app, the one your child talks to. Pick one, send it somewhere, and ask for a trick.
In the app, kids just ask out loud: "Can you do a backflip?"
Why is the sky blue? Kids tap the microphone and talk, or type if they'd rather. Sidekick answers in short, simple sentences, reads its reply aloud, and often asks a question back to keep the conversation going.
Kids can show Sidekick a photo, like a drawing or a pet, and talk about it together.
Quick-tap a joke, a story, a fun fact or a surprise for something sillier.
Kids pick a dog, lion, dragon, penguin, capybara or unicorn, give it any name they like, and choose how it sounds. Then they send it to the beach, a snowy hill, the forest, their bedroom or the moon, by day or by night.
With a parent's consent, a child can record a short sample so Sidekick speaks in a voice that sounds like them.
Ask for a backflip, a spin, a high five or a game of peekaboo, and the sidekick does it. Every character has its own special trick and its own dances.
Tap the sidekick's nose, tummy or paws and it reacts. It looks back at your child and cups an ear to listen when they talk.
Quick tap-and-play games where your child's own sidekick is the hero: catch falling apples, run and jump over logs, find which cup it's hiding under, pop bubbles, unscramble words, and Remember my moves, a Simon Says-style memory game that adds a move every round.
Games that practise words and numbers without feeling like homework.
Your child picks a topic, like space, dinosaurs or the ocean, or types their own idea. Sidekick makes up a story for them and reads it in a slower, calmer voice.
A grown-up sets up each child's profile. Here's what else the app does.
Sidekick says it's a computer, not a real person, on the welcome screen, at the top of the home screen and in its own greeting.
Your child's messages are checked before Sidekick answers, and its replies are filtered too. Sidekick keeps to topics that suit young children. Like any automated check, these can miss things.
Messages containing a phone number or email address are blocked, and links, phone numbers and email addresses are removed from replies.
Every Sidekick reply has a small flag, so a child can report anything that felt mean, scary or wrong.
No advertising, and the Android advertising ID is blocked. The subscription is sold to the parent through Google Play or the App Store, from the parent area only.
Kids talk only to Sidekick. There are no social features and no way to message other users.
The usage stats we keep to improve the app record things like which feature was used and for how long, never what your child said.
AI Sidekick isn't in any app store yet. It's coming to Google Play first, with the Apple App Store to follow. Join the early-access list and we'll tell you as soon as you can try it.
Every family gets a 7-day free trial, with no card needed. After that it's $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, bought by a parent through Google Play or the App Store. The offline games stay free.
English for now. More languages are on the way.
Kids aged 4 to 12. Sidekick adjusts to each child's age: simpler words and easier games for little ones, more depth for older kids. A parent can change the level in the parent area.
Sidekick tells them it isn't. It introduces itself as a computer friend, and the home screen always shows "Sidekick is an AI, not a real person".
Sidekick is an AI, not a person, and it says so. It's built for play, stories and practice with grown-ups in charge, not to be your child's friend in place of people.
We can't say that yet. Sidekick is built around published research on techniques like bedtime routines and repeated tastes of new foods, and we link every study on the science page. We have not yet run our own study of whether Sidekick changes children's habits; a small pilot with families is planned.
To make replies and voices, messages and voice are sent to our AI providers: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google (through OpenRouter), and ElevenLabs. These providers may keep data briefly for abuse monitoring. Conversations are kept with your child's profile while it exists, and you can delete them at any time. The privacy policy has the full detail.
In the app, go to Settings, then Grown-ups, then Delete account. That removes your account, every child profile, all conversations, stories, alerts and any cloned voices. You can also follow the steps on the account deletion page.
No ads, ever. Sidekick has a subscription that a parent buys through Google Play or the App Store, from the PIN-protected parent area; a child never sees a purchase screen.
Lunera AI Solutions FZC, a small software company that builds AI-powered apps. Questions about privacy go to [email protected].
Tell us a little about your family and we'll invite you when there's a spot. It goes straight to our team, and we only use it to reply to you.
Please don't include your child's name or other details about them. See the privacy policy.
