EB IT Radio Kids is our app for children: stories, kids' radio, games, drawing and colouring in, all in one place, with big, easy buttons made for little fingers. There's nothing to download, no account to make, and it's free.
What's inside
- 🧒 Kids radio — stories and shows for children, playing all day. No music, just stories and chat made for young listeners.
- 🌙 Story time radio — all of our stories, read aloud, all day long.
- 📻 EB IT Radio — the main station, during the shows we've marked ⭐ family safe.
- 📖 Stories — pick a story and listen chapter by chapter. The app remembers where you got to.
- 🎧 Shows — "Listen again" episodes chosen for children.
- 🎮 Games — Memory match, Simon says sounds, Odd one out, Dot-to-dot, Sliding puzzle, Counting and Shape match. Each game has levels for ages 3+, 5+, 10+ and teens. Counting starts with simple counting and goes up to sums, times tables and order of operations.
- ✏️ Draw — a blank page for a finger or stylus, with colours, brush sizes, a rubber and undo.
- 🖍️ Colour in — pictures to fill with a tap or colour with the brush.
- 🖼️ My pictures — everything they've drawn and coloured, saved on the device.
- 😴 Sleep timer — for the radio, stories and shows, from 15 minutes to an hour.
For grown-ups
A grown-up PIN keeps you in charge. Behind the PIN on the For grown-ups page you can:
- switch each part of the app on or off, and each game;
- set the age level for the games so it can't be changed;
- hide stories and shows with loud or sudden sound effects;
- set a daily screen-time limit — when it's up, the app says "All done for today" (you can give more time);
- set a bedtime — after bedtime there's just one button, "📖 Read me a story", which stops by itself after 30 minutes.
The PIN is also needed before the app plays the main station outside family-safe shows, or Story time radio when it has stories meant for everyone. You choose where it's asked.
From the My pictures page, a grown-up can print a picture, share it, save it, or have it emailed to them. Before we send anything, we email a 6-digit code to check the address really is yours, and we don't keep the picture.
Safe and private
- No accounts, no names, no messages. Children can't send anything to the station or to anyone else.
- Settings, story places, best scores and pictures stay on your device. Nothing is sent to us, except a picture a grown-up chooses to email to themselves.
- Only stories and shows we've checked and marked child friendly appear.
Add it to your tablet or phone
Open ebitradio.co.uk/kids, then:
- iPad or iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android (Chrome): tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen or Install app.
It then opens like any other app, full screen. It's made for tablets and doesn't zoom by accident when little hands pinch or tap twice.
Questions?
We'd love to hear what your children think. Email studio@eb-it.uk.