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KIDO'Z

2009 – ? Discontinued
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Israeli web browser/environment for young children built on Adobe AIR: visual interface requiring no reading, games, videos and team-approved sites, impossible to exit without closing the app; later brought to Android.

Facts

Developer
KIDO'Z Ltd. (Tel Aviv), later Kidoz Inc. (Vancouver)
Website
web.archive.org
Engine
WebKit
Platforms
WindowsmacOSAndroid
Details
Adobe AIR application (desktop, HTML rendered by the WebKit built into AIR) in 2009, then Android in 2012 (17 languages); “Play Mode” still downloadable from kidoz.net in May 2015; the company later became a mobile ad network
Popularity
59/100 — Nearly one million users of the desktop version (TechCrunch, 2012)

Sources

  1. https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/no-childs-play-kidoz-creates-a-kid-friendly-media-browser
  2. https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/kidoz-arrives-on-mobile-making-android-devices-safe-for-kids/
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20100107160610/http://kidoz.net/
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20140101082638/http://kidoz.net/
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidoz
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20150529160842/http://kidoz.net/