PBS KIDS Video
Episodes, shorts, movies & TV
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Education
Languages
English
Fri Feb 06 2026
PBS KIDS is excited to celebrate Valentine's Day. Join some of your favorite characters on their Valentine's Day-themed adventures!
* Updated app icon
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
The PBS KIDS Video app provides children and parents with access to thousands of free videos, including full episodes and clips from top PBS KIDS series. As the #1 educational media brand for kids, PBS KIDS offers a safe and trusted environment where children can learn through high-quality programming. The app features a 'Live TV' button to watch your local station, weekly updates with new content, and a dedicated 'Adults' section for parents to find educational goals and schedules.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
PBS KIDS Video is simply the gold standard for children's educational content. In a world of confusing subscriptions and ad-filled platforms, this app stands out by being 100% free and incredibly safe. The library is massive, featuring all the heavy hitters like Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, and Wild Kratts. The interface is specifically designed for little hands, using large, recognizable character icons that allow even pre-readers to find their favorite shows with ease.
The 'Live TV' feature is a fantastic addition, allowing kids to watch the scheduled PBS KIDS broadcast as it happens in their local area. For parents, the 'Adults' section provides peace of mind, offering insights into what each show teaches and letting you manage local station settings. It’s an essential app for any family, providing high-quality, prosocial, and educational entertainment that you can trust without reservation.
Features
100% free with no subscriptions
Ad-free and safe for children
Live TV streaming of local PBS KIDS channel
New full episodes added every Friday
Downloadable content for offline viewing
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Upcoming Events
Tips & Walkthrough
Children can browse by swiping through character icons at the bottom of the screen. Tapping a character opens a list of available full episodes and clips. The blue 'Live' button at the top right instantly starts the current live broadcast from your local PBS station.
Gameplays
Tap the 'Adults' icon to access the parent dashboard. Here you can see the 'TV Schedule' for your local station, learn about the 'Learning Goals' of each show, and find related educational apps and games.
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Q&A
No, PBS KIDS Video is completely free and does not require a subscription or login.
Ratings & Reviews
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Pbs rocks the brains of the little people.
Sun Dec 01 2019 ViceVibeI loved pbs as a kid and still love it to this day. This is an amazing app because it brings with it old childhood memory’s. In the future I hope we keep pbs around with enough donations. Because I would extremely like it for my kids in the future as long as it doesn’t become some way of trying to manipulate my children through the shows. Please always keep it the same. Besides that I find pbs great because I have had conversations with other “adults” who are to “mature” for the shows 😂 and have found that pbs has taught me things the most adults don’t know, but here is the thing. I gave the app a four star because it doesn’t seem to be as organized as it could be. I like the individual tabs that show the shows and main characters. When you click on them though most of the episodes cut out before the show ends or begins or even in the middle sometimes like not all of the episode is there? Also it would be cool if we could just get all seasons and episodes all in chronological order like. Season 1 episode 1,2,3 and so on. That way the viewers can choose or pick favorite episodes for there kids. Or make it so you could bundle all your favorites together. I am so glad you guys have cyberspace and Clifford and many others on here. Coming from a viewer like me. Thank you! For creating such a good education program for kids. One of my favorites is Sid the science kid!
Yay! But one question
Fri Mar 22 2024 Bribunny18I first want to start off saying how AWESOME the shows r. Even tho I am a bit too old to watch, as a kid I LOVE ur shows! I do wish that you would stop getting rid of good shows. Like, I used to watch this kid (I forgot how to spell his name) and you deleted him from PBS kids and replaced him with a boring show called Through the Woods. I really hated Through the Woods because it was so short! Another thing is that I agree that you should add PG-13 shows but make it in a separate spot so that little kids don’t come across a PG-13 show and start crying because on the show something a little kid shouldn’t watch happens. I have a lot of suggestions, because while I love your app and shows there r some issues. But I realize that would be wasting your time, so instead I won’t waste your time with those, instead I will go to your website and one day finish my list. To finish off, I LOVE your shows but please take these suggestions into consideration and please write me back. Thanks! And keep up the good work! 👍
Update Leaves a Lot to be Desired
Sat May 03 2025 RandomNickname73826This is one of the few streaming apps we have to use directly from our phones, since our Samsung TV’s App Store interface is so bad that we can’t even search to find if there is a version of this app available there. Therefore, we have to use AirPlay to stream the content to the TV. This update took an already-buggy AirPlay experience and made it so much worse. On opening the app, it starts autoplaying (not new but still frustrating: please add a setting to disable that!). You cannot pause the video without tapping the video preview which then goes to a full screen mode. If you exit that mode back to the app, it begins playing again! If you then navigate to a show and begin playing a video on AirPlay, you, again, are in a full-screen mode and exiting it (or navigating away from the app) pauses the video again and/or begins playing something else. Lastly, the AirPlay controls on the Lock Screen seem to have disappeared altogether. The new update is beautiful and the old app did need a refresh, but there are so many bugs to be addressed around playback. I know this was built to be “kid-oriented” but with no ability for parents to control the experience their kids see, the promise falls short. Please add settings to disable auto-play, filter which shows kids can watch, and fix the AirPlay experience!
Thank you for being FREE
Sun Sep 04 2022 Specialneeds momHello, I am a mom of a special needs teen I myself being an autistic adult with a special needs teen consistency really matters. When I had cable my daughter and I would watch the PBS kids 24/7 channel and our local PBS station alternating between the 2. I can no longer afford cable so I have an Apple TV device and we have the PBS kids video app. I’m so thankful that your app is FREE. Where as the competition channels are not free. You need a cable subscription which we do not have. But your station is FREE: I’m also so glad that you have brought back some of the older shows on the PBS kids video app such as Word World, Sci Girls, Mister Rogers Neighborhood and Maya and Miguel. My daughter LOVES word world we’ve struggled to find a place we can watch it and I can put it on for her my daughter is super excited for the new Daniel Tiger content coming out. I’m just all around so happy with your app. So thank you for being amazing and having an amazing app that we can enjoy for years to come.!
Great content, unstable app with quirky behavior
Fri Apr 01 2022 Sheepguy42PBS Kids is dependable for having the best kids content—I never worry about what my kid is watching if I have him in here on Guided Access. It does, however, tend to crash/freeze a bunch (especially on older devices like an iPad Air 2, but also on our Apple TV HD) and for some reason often fails to stop the auto-playing stream when you choose something different to watch. This is worst on Apple TV, where you might try clicking to see the next Daniel Tiger episode from the TV app’s ‘up next’ selection, only to have the audio from an episode of Arthur (or whatever is next in the “Live TV” lineup) playing simultaneously with the Daniel Tiger episode — both at the same volume. I’ve learned to force quit the app then go directly to it to navigate to (in this example) Daniel Tiger, but the same thing can still happen even on iOS/iPadOS when choosing a video to watch while the “Live TV” selection is playing.
Reupload and also fixed, pbs kids why
Sun Jun 30 2024 ThomasthecoolengineI see on my tv that your brainwashing kids right now by this one specific month called pride month and it’s driving all of us kids and adults nuts, it’s not okey to make kids do wrong stuff that shouldn’t be done at all, and Rosie’s rules is so terrible I’m not being mean to all the people that help made this but it’s a caillou clone, except the short where Rosie helps her abuela, and even worse Lyla in the loop is really not so good and annoying, even more worse is that I checked the learning goal and there’s nothing at all, even more more worse I don’t care if I say this or not but Milo is a peppa pig clone and a cheap copy cat, just saying I’m not being mean again but it’s all terrible, like just do your own idea that would be good and would be popular as well, here’s some of my ideas the jumping spiders, driving on the road, the great world of great adventures, Harney the yellow dog petcel, also pbs kids why did you remove a lot of the shows, Thomas and friends, bob the builder, pingu, reading rainbow, between the lions, mister roggers neighborhood, and much more, except caillou, anyways keep up the okey work, I guess…
Disappointed in update
Sun May 25 2025 J.S.F. R.E.F.M.R.F.B.A.FI’ve been a parent for 6 years and for most of those 6 years I can say that one of the things that has made my life easier is this app. And it has remained constant in a world full of unnecessary changes. But unfortunately PBS kids has decided they can’t leave well enough alone A few mornings ago when my daughter woke up in the 5 o clock hour I decided I needed a bit more sleep and I would let her watch her favorite PBS show on my phone. Groggy and with eyes half shut it should have been like autopilot but when I opened my app I figured I opened the wrong one. I opened it again and realized it had all changed. First- the orientation is different? Why? Landscape makes more sense because that is how shows are viewed. It is confusing to find anything. My kids used to be able to navigate the app and now it’s not even user friendly for me. When I select a show, one starts playing instantly. Very inconvenient as most kids like to pick their episode. Then when you pick your episode you have to make sure you screen orientation is unlocked so the show can be viewed in full screen. I’m all for change when it makes sense. In my house I always tell my kids we don’t say hate so I’ll just say I really really don’t like these changes. I’m begging you to go back to the original. I would be happy to change my review to 5 stars after that but this app just doesn’t make sense! You had something clear and streamlined and user-friendly. Now you have a jumbled mess.
5 Stars all the way. Perfect app for kids in every way
Mon Feb 07 2022 Petro277How anyone could give this less than five stars beyond me. The content is unbelievable, and it’s FREE! Like really free. Like as in no ads, no banners, no pop-ups. There is literally nothing to purchase ever, and no way your child could accidentally wrack up charges like literally just about every other kids app that exists. All the content is completely wholesome. You will never, ever have to worry about what your kids are watching. The only people who are giving this low ratings are doing so for odd reasons like they can’t get it to cast properly to other devices, or it’s closing out the app when a phone call comes in, etc. All things that they could fix if they understood the settings on their devices. These are not issues caused by the app itself. Overall, I can’t imagine a more perfect app for kids.
