Safety
Every book is checked before your child sees it.
Below is exactly what Yarnily will and won't write, how each book is checked, and what those checks can't do.
Six commitments
Children's content stays children's content.
Every book is checked for age and safety before your child sees it. The rules are stricter the younger the reader is.
Photos are private to you.
If you share a photo of your child, it stays in your account, and we never sell it or use it for advertising. To draw your child it does go to the illustration providers we use, and our Service providers page says exactly what they receive.
No autoplay. No shaming. No ads.
Yarnily is made to be read together and then put down. Nothing on the page is there to keep your child tapping. Most of the week happens away from the screen.
You decide what reaches your child.
Nothing reaches your child until you have read it and published it. You choose the children each linked tablet shows, switch Yarnily's library on or off for each child, and remove a tablet from your phone at any time.
Aligned with COPPA and the DPDP Act.
We treat children's data with the care the law (and common sense) requires. No behavioural targeting. Yarnily Kids, where your child reads, runs no analytics and no third-party scripts.
Delete everything from the app.
If you want to leave, you take your data with you and we delete it. You don't need to email support, and there are no tricks to keep you. To keep it safe, we text a code to your phone first.
Four checks
How a book is checked, from start to finish.
- 01/ Layer
Before the book is written
Every request is checked against your child's age before a word is written. Depending on what it asks for, Yarnily writes it normally, writes it gently with a trusted adult present and a calm ending, asks you to confirm first, or says no and offers a safe idea close to it.
- 02/ Layer
While the book is written
Every book is written under fixed safety rules that cannot be overridden, and the rules are stricter the younger the reader is. What they rule out at every age is listed in full below, under “What Yarnily will not write”. Every book ends with safety, comfort or growth.
- 03/ Layer
After the book is written
The finished draft is checked again against the age it was written for. A draft that breaks the rules — violence, self-harm, hate, a frightening ending, a topic too old for the age — is rewritten or replaced with a safe alternative before you see it. This check reads the words on the page. It does not screen the pictures.
- 04/ Layer
Before the book reaches your child: you
Nothing reaches your child until you publish it. You read the finished book page by page, change what you want, and confirm you have reviewed it. We ask for that on every book. The other three checks support this step; they do not replace it. They turn work away every day, and they are still not a guarantee.
The limits
What those checks don't do.
The checks above are real, and they turn work away every day. They are not a guarantee. A safety page that only lists what it catches would mislead you, so here is the other half.
Pictures are not screened by machine.
The checks above read text. A picture is drawn from the scene it belongs to and the style rules we set, but no automated check looks at the finished picture. You see every picture when you review the book, and you can have any of them redrawn before you publish.
No check catches everything.
The technology that writes and draws the books can still get things wrong. A book that passed every check above can contain something wrong, odd, or not right for your child. That is why the last check is you, and why we ask you to confirm you have reviewed each book.
Narration plays as soon as you publish.
The narration, and the activities and questions made from a book, are ready while you review it. Listen and look before you publish: once you do, a device you have linked for your child can play the narration straight away.
The app is for grown-ups.
Making, checking and publishing a book is a grown-up's job, and there is no child account. A child reads on their own only in Yarnily Kids, on a device you have linked for them. It shows only the books you have published to them, plus Yarnily's library if you switch it on, and it cannot make, buy or change anything.
At every age
What Yarnily will not write.
Applies at every age, in every language, no matter how the request is phrased. When a request lands on this list, the app says no gently, in plain words, and offers a safe idea close to it so the moment isn't lost.
- Sexual or physically romantic content at any age.
- Graphic violence, gore, or detailed peril.
- On-page death for children under seven.
- Self-harm methods, suicide methods, or anything that resembles instruction.
- Instructions for weapons, explosives, drugs, or illegal activity.
- Hate, mockery, or stereotyping of any group: including by religion, caste, region, gender, sexuality, disability, body type, or family shape.
- Real political figures or recent real-world traumatic events as plot drivers.
- Prescriptive medical, legal, or financial advice.
- Scary endings. Every book ends with safety, comfort or growth.
Age bands
Written for the age of the reader.
The same topic (fear of the dentist, say) is told very differently for a four-year-old than for an eight-year-old. Age is not a label on the story; it shapes how the story is written.
Age 3
Very short sentences and a calm, predictable shape. The trouble in the book is a lost toy, a small worry, or a misunderstanding — and a grown-up your child trusts is there the whole way through.
Ages 4–5
Gentle challenges: a rainy day, a first try that doesn't work, a friend who needs help. Feelings are named out loud, so your child picks up the words for them.
Ages 6–7
Slightly longer sentences and a little more to follow. A trusted grown-up is still part of how things get put right.
Age 8
Room for a harder question: a friend in the wrong, a choice with no easy answer. Actions have consequences, shown kindly rather than as punishment.
In one line
If a careful parent wouldn't accept it, we don't make it.
Autoplay, ad-targeting, dark patterns that pressure a child to keep going, a story that leaves them anxious: none of that ships at Yarnily. That's the whole policy. Everything else is implementation detail.