Show HN: Muky – A kid-friendly music player for iOS
Muky is a music app for iPhone and iPad that allows parents to create secure, distraction-free playlists for children, supporting iOS 15 and prioritizing user privacy with multilingual options.
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Muky is a music app designed for iPhone and iPad that allows parents to create and manage music playlists for their children. The app focuses on providing a distraction-free audio experience, enabling kids to select their favorite tracks easily through a user-friendly interface. Parents can create custom playlists with personalized titles, colors, and emojis, ensuring that each playlist is memorable for their children. Muky features a secure access mode that requires a password to exit, preventing kids from leaving the app unintentionally. The app supports iOS 15, making it compatible with older devices like the iPhone 6s and iPad Air 2. Users can back up and restore playlists, start directly in audio player mode, and enjoy a dark mode for low-light environments. Additionally, Muky offers a multilingual experience, supporting both English and German, and prioritizes user privacy by not collecting personal data. The app is currently available on Apple Music, with Spotify support expected soon.
- Muky is designed for creating parent-controlled music playlists for kids.
- The app features a distraction-free interface and password protection for secure access.
- It supports iOS 15 and is compatible with older Apple devices.
- Users can create custom playlists and back up their data easily.
- Muky offers a multilingual experience and prioritizes user privacy.
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Does it use the default music library that you load through Apple Music? Can you load mp3/flac/alac directly in it?
We don't want kids looking at certain Hub sites, obviously, but, like, those same filters also often prevent high schoolers from looking up necessary safe-sex information.
As a music app, that's less of a concern, but I do think there's risk of parents over-controlling to only provide, say, conservative podcast audio and Christian music. Weather or not that's a parent's right also depends on the age. 4, like your daughter. Sure. What about 12? 16? 17? Age of majority in Nebraska, where I'm located, is 19. Should a parent be able to restrict their child from listening to, say, NOFX, Flobots, or The Narcissist Cookbook, at 18?
I lean no. Now, you're not the moral police and, arguably, it's not up to you if parents abuse this app against their more-adult-kids wishes, but have you put any thought into this? Have you made an effort to only target parents with kids of an age range or to put a "What should I let my kids listen to?" guidance section in the app?
I'd also like to ask if the app is obviously branded as for kids to kids, so that those "kids" or maybe some highly sheltered romantic partner, can take it as a hint?
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> Exiting the audio player mode requires the password set by the parents
How does this work? I'm an Android guy, but over there, to my knowledge, there's no good way to tell the OS "Users shouldn't be able to kill this app", so how does it stop kids from closing it/switching apps?
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