Common Sense Media
Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. We empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice, and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kidsÍ lives. Common Sense MEDIA helps families make smart media choices. We offer the largest, most trusted library of independent age-based and educational ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. Our Parent Concerns and Parent Blog help families understand and navigate the problems and possibilities of raising children in the digital age. Common Sense EDUCATION provides teachers and schools with free research-based classroom tools to help students harness technology for learning and life. Our K_12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum and interactive games teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world. And our revolutionary educational rating system, Graphite, helps educators discover, use, and share high-quality digital products that propel student learning. Common Sense KIDS ACTION has a mission to make kids and education our nationÍs top priority. Kids Action works with policymakers, industry leaders, legislators, and a grassroots community of concerned parents and teachers to promote access to high quality digital learning experiences with well-trained teachers; ensure all kids are able to harness the power of technology, while also keeping their personal information private and protected; advocate for access for all children to high quality early education and early childhood services; and fight to reduce the highest rate of childhood poverty in 40 years.
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Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. We empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice, and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kidsÍ lives.

Common Sense MEDIA helps families make smart media choices. We offer the largest, most trusted library of independent age-based and educational ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. Our Parent Concerns and Parent Blog help families understand and navigate the problems and possibilities of raising children in the digital age.

Common Sense EDUCATION provides teachers and schools with free research-based classroom tools to help students harness technology for learning and life. Our K_12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum and interactive games teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world. And our revolutionary educational rating system, Graphite, helps educators discover, use, and share high-quality digital products that propel student learning.

Common Sense KIDS ACTION has a mission to make kids and education our nationÍs top priority. Kids Action works with policymakers, industry leaders, legislators, and a grassroots community of concerned parents and teachers to promote access to high quality digital learning experiences with well-trained teachers; ensure all kids are able to harness the power of technology, while also keeping their personal information private and protected; advocate for access for all children to high quality early education and early childhood services; and fight to reduce the highest rate of childhood poverty in 40 years.

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  • 10 SDKs
  • 4.18 Avg. Rating
  • 965 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://itunes.apple.com/app/common-sense-media/id504932051
  • App Support: http://www.commonsense.org/contact
  • Genre: Entertainment
  • Bundle ID: org.commonsense.iphone.Kids-Media
  • App Size: 87 M
  • Version: 4.3.4
  • Release Date: September 28th, 2012
  • Update Date: January 3rd, 2017

Description:

Common Sense Media helps your family make great media choices! We offer the biggest most-trusted library of age-appropriate ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, and books your kids will love.

With the Common Sense Media app, you can search our entire library of 25,000 ratings and reviews in the palm of your hand--and you can personalize recommendations just for your kids!

Create profiles for your kids to personalize your search, and discover fun learning apps, recommended movies, and inspiring books to help your child thrive.

Plus, get movie showtimes and download products directly from iTunes, right from our review. (Please note that this feature requires enabling location detection; for this reason our app is not for kids under 13.)

Key features:

• Detailed reviews give you critical information, including amount of violence, sex, bad language, positive role models, and much more.

• Want a second opinion? See reviews and ratings from other parents and kids too.

• "Picks for My Kids" allows you to create profiles for each of your kids and personalize your search for age-appropriate movies, games, TV shows, and more.

• “Best Lists” are hand-picked lists from our editors to help you discover the very best media for your kids.

• "Families Can Talk About” feature gives you conversation starters to talk to your kids about what they are watching, playing, and reading.

• “Get Showtimes” allows you to search for movies in nearby theaters without leaving the app.

• Watch video reviews and trailers for top movie releases.

• Save reviews as favorites or share with friends on Facebook or Twitter.

• Get notifications when new reviews are posted.

• Available for iPhone and iPad.

Note: you cannot view actual media in our app (except for our video reviews), though we do offer iTunes and Amazon links.

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Listening from Shanghai

Jan 24, 2017

Incredibly useful

I have found this app extremely valuable when checking the appropriateness of a show or movie my kids want to watch. They also rate video games. I love how specific their ratings are for different content like violence, sex, consumerism, positive messages, etc

JeffSmyth

Jan 20, 2017

Great, but...

Overall this is our family go to media reviewer app and site. Some media (movies/TV) is missing. Can't have everything. I can share a review on social media platforms. One thing I wish the app would allow me to do is to text message a link to a review.

ILoVeComiXanDMoVIEs

Jan 19, 2017

I love CSM

I love the website but I don't like the app. They never update it!!!

Kcb74

Jan 16, 2017

My go-to app for suitable movies for my daughter

This app (& web-site) are a fantastic resource for parents, or anyone wanting information on what's suitable for specific age groups. So far every review of a movie etc has been spot on.

Sarita la del Norte

Jan 14, 2017

I use it all the time.

I never write reviews for apps, but as I was using Kids Media for the hundredth time today I was compelled to rate it. With the overwhelming amount of media out there today for our kids, there is no way for me to preview everything for content. This app has helped me in two major ways: 1) finding out if a certain show, movie, app or book is age-appropriate and explaining why. 2) searching for media when we'd like suggestions on what to try. Every parent should have this easy to use app.

GIB415

Jan 14, 2017

Super helpful

Kids Media is a great app for gauging the appropriateness of all sorts of media for kids. It's been pretty spot on in my view.
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MobileCoreServices
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Quartz Core Framework
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