Award-winning
Named Best Kid-Friendly AI of 2026 by SafeWise, an independent review organization.
Read the awardFor Parents
Built for kids to explore. Built for you to trust.
HeyOtto is a safe AI platform where kids and teens learn, create, and ask anything — shaped by your family's values, tuned to each of your kids, with you in the loop the whole way.
One platform. A whole world of safe exploration.
Every conversation, creation, and question happens inside an environment designed for kids and teens.
Meet Otto
Real answers to any question, at any age.
- What kids do: Ask anything — curious questions, big feelings, weird hypotheticals
- How it adapts: Age-appropriate from 8 to 18, dinosaur facts to college essays
- How it responds: Real answers in a kid-safe environment — never dumbed down, never inappropriate
Homework & Learning Help
Support that teaches, not answers that shortcut.
- What kids do: Work through problems step by step, in their own words
- How it teaches: Otto guides the thinking instead of giving the answer
- What parents see: Progress and understanding, not just activity
Create & Publish in the Marketplace
Kids are the creators, not just the users.
- What kids do: Build their own AI-powered apps and games
- What happens next: Publish to the Marketplace for other kids to use
- Why it matters: Real creations, real audience, real confidence
For you
You're not watching from the outside. You're part of the platform.
Three ways to stay connected to your kid's AI life.
Parent Dashboard
Your command center for the whole family.
What you see
- Activity, topics, and real-time safety alerts
What you control
- Boundaries, permissions, and settings per kid
When it matters
- Alerts reach you the moment a conversation needs your attention
Parent Chat
Your own Otto, for adult-level conversations.
What you ask
- "What has Maya been curious about this week?" — and get a real answer
What you discuss
- Parenting, your kid's activity, anything on your mind
What you change
- Any setting, just by asking
Your Family's Values
Otto follows your lead on the topics that matter.
What you set
- How your family approaches faith, screen time, current events, hard topics
How Otto responds
- Answers reflect your household, not a generic default
Who decides
- You do — always
Made for your kid. And your family.
No two kids are the same. Neither are two families.
Every kid gets their own Otto
Profiles tuned to each kid, not one-size-fits-all.
What's personalized
Age, interests, learning style, communication preferences
How parents shape it
Pacing, directness, structure, routine — per kid
Accessibility built in
Dyslexia-friendly font, plus communication controls for kids who read, learn, or process differently
A relationship that remembers
Context that builds over time — and you see it too.
What Otto remembers
Interests, projects, and what your kid has struggled with
What you see
Bright spots worth celebrating, alongside safety alerts in your dashboard
What never happens
Nothing lost between conversations, nothing important past you
Built for real families
Your account structure matches your actual family.
Who fits
Two-parent, single-parent, co-parents, grandparents, blended families
How it works
Add a second parent, or switch between family accounts across households
What stays separate
Each household keeps its own kids, settings, and values — Otto knows which is which
Grows with them
Not an app they age out of. A platform they grow up on.
What changes
More depth, independence, and challenge as your kid grows
What doesn't
Your visibility and your values stay constant
The span
Otto at 8 isn't Otto at 15 — by design
Trust & Safety
Safety, shown and verified.
95% on the KORA child-safety benchmark
Self-reported: HeyOtto runs KORA's public benchmark methodology against its own AI responses and publishes the results. See our transparency page for what the score does and does not prove.
See the KORA resultsCOPPA-compliant by design
Privacy is the architecture — data minimization, verified parental consent, and safeguards built in from the first line of code. Built by a founder with a career in privacy compliance.
Read our privacy commitmentsNo ads. No data selling. Ever.
Your family's conversations are never sold, shared for advertising, or used to profile your kids.
Every kid uses it differently. That's the point.
Younger kid
A 9-year-old asks Otto why the moon follows the car, then spends twenty minutes going down a (safe) rabbit hole about orbits. Her mom sees the topic on the dashboard that evening and keeps the conversation going at dinner.
Middle schooler
A 13-year-old is stuck on a pre-algebra problem set. Otto walks him through the first one step by step, then coaches him through the rest without giving answers away. His dad checks Parent Chat: "How's homework going this week?"
Teen
A 16-year-old builds a study-flashcard app in Studio and publishes it to the Marketplace. Other kids actually use it. It goes on her college application.
Blended family
Dad has kids in two households. He switches between the two family accounts — one set of kids, one set of values in each home — and Otto keeps it all straight. No settings collisions, no explaining the family tree twice.
Parent FAQ
Straight answers to the questions families ask before they sign up.
Your kid is going to use AI. Choose where.
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