SkieWhat is the Skie approved app store, and who decides what is in it?
It is a curated list of apps the Skie team has checked as suitable for children, from which parents choose. The Skie team curates it and parents decide which apps their child gets. You can suggest an app by contacting support, and Skie can remove an app if an update turns it bad.
Skie keeps a catalogue of approved apps. Each has a category and an age band, so you can see at a glance what suits a child of a given age. When you pick apps in the dashboard, you are choosing from this catalogue.
The Skie team curates it. Parents do not have to judge every app alone, and they still decide what their own child has. An app being in the catalogue does not mean your child must have it.
To add something that is not there, paste its Google Play link in the dashboard and the details fill in. An app that is new to Skie waits for Skie approval. You can also ask support to suggest an app for the catalogue.
Updates can change an app. If an approved app turns bad after an update, for example by adding something unsuitable, Skie can remove it from the store. It then stops being available to choose.
All apps come from Google Play. Skie does not host or install apps from anywhere else.
The Skie approved app store is not a separate app on the child's phone. It is the list you pick from in the dashboard. On the child's device the result is a home screen with only your choices.
Tip: browse by age band first, then by category. A new parent often finds that five or six apps cover most of what a young child needs.