Askimo: age suitability
- Askimo is our second app: Wikipedia curiosities for children, shown as questions ("Who is…?", "What is…?") with a child-friendly summary, read aloud in 7 languages.
- Audience: children from age 4 to 12. Pre-readers use the Listen button; the youngest should have a grown-up nearby. App Store: Kids category, rated 4+ (Education). Free.
- Content: summaries come from Wikipedia and pass a child-safety word filter; anything the filter rejects is replaced by a short explanation instead of the text. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
- No account, no advertising, no in-app purchases, and no analytics or tracking SDKs. The app only talks to Wikipedia (content) and a text-to-speech service (the words to read aloud) — never anything about the child.
- Every link that leaves the app — a Wikipedia page, Wikipedia's donation page, the Samio Learning store page — sits behind a grown-up check, every single time, as the Kids category requires.
- Reminders are optional and local to the device: off until the system permission is granted, and only asked for after the first content appears.