A search engine your child can use alone.
ReKid answers a child's questions without ever putting them one click away from something they should not see. No advertising, no tracking, no account for the child.
20 searches, 7 days. No card, no password, no email for the child.
What ReKid actually is
Most kid-safe search tools are ordinary search results with a blocklist bolted on. ReKid works the other way round. A language model proposes pages that answer the child's question, and the engine then visits every single one of them — checking the address, the domain, and the page text — before a result is ever shown. A page that cannot be verified is never printed on the screen.
Nothing is shown unverified
A result appears only after it has passed every safety layer and its real title has been read from the page itself. Dead links and placeholder pages never reach your child.
The unsafe search never runs
If the question itself is inappropriate, ReKid stops before the model is even called. There is no request, no answer, no cost — and nothing for a child to screenshot.
Care, not a wall
Some searches are not dangerous, they are a cry for help. Questions about self-harm return a gentle message pointing to a trusted adult and a helpline, never a blank refusal.
How a search actually works
- 1
The question is checked first
Before anything else, the query is normalised — leetspeak, look-alike characters and spacing tricks are collapsed — and matched against the blocked topics. Roughly thirty milliseconds, no model call.
- 2
The model proposes pages
A Claude model suggests addresses that would genuinely answer the question, written for a child's reading level.
- 3
Every address is checked
The domain is checked against blocked and risky top-level domains and known unmoderated platforms. Private addresses and redirect tricks are refused.
- 4
Every page is read
The engine fetches the page, reads the beginning of the real HTML and scans it. If the page text trips a safety rule, it is dropped — even if the domain looked fine.
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Only survivors are printed
What reaches the screen has passed all four layers and has a real title read from the page itself.
The four safety layers
Each layer can refuse on its own. The design is fail-closed: when a check cannot complete, the result is dropped rather than shown.
The query
Runs before the model. Blocks the search outright and records the reason. Confusable characters, leetspeak and spacing are normalised first, so disguised spellings are caught too.
The proposed address
Runs on every address the model returns. Blocks adult and high-risk top-level domains, known adult and gambling domains, and unmoderated user-content platforms.
The fetch
Follows redirects one hop at a time and re-checks the destination at every hop. Refuses private, loopback and link-local addresses, so an address cannot be used to reach inside the server.
The page text
Scans the beginning of the real page HTML — title, description and body text. A page whose content trips a rule is dropped even though its address passed.
Two links, no passwords
When you get a licence you receive two links. They belong to the same account and share the same allowance, but they are different secrets — neither can be derived from the other.
The grown-up link
Opens settings, the plan, the remaining allowance and both links. Keep this one to yourself.
The kid link
Opens the search screen and nothing else. This is the one you give your child. From it, the grown-up link is invisible.
Why not a password?
A password would mean collecting and storing one more secret about a family, and children are famously good at watching a parent type. Two separate links give real separation with nothing extra to store and nothing to forget.
What ReKid knows about your child
The honest answer is: almost nothing, and that is a design decision, not a promise.
What rekid.uk stores
- A one-way hash of the access key — the key itself is never written down and cannot be recovered from the database.
- A salted hash of the IP address, used only for rate limiting.
- A two-letter country code, taken from a header the network already sends.
- The search text and the resulting page, so a repeated question can be answered instantly.
What rekid.uk never stores
- No name, no surname, no date of birth, no school.
- No email address and no password — there is nothing to sign in with.
- No raw IP address anywhere, in any table or log.
- No location beyond the country code. No GPS, no city, no third-party lookup.
- No advertising identifiers and no third-party trackers, because there are no ads.
The bridge between this site and rekid.uk is one-way
getrekid.com knows who you are, because you bought something. rekid.uk does not, and cannot ask. This site can tell that account holder X owns key Y; rekid.uk only ever sees key Y. It has no way to learn who searched for what, and neither do we.
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20 searches, 7 days. No card, no password, no email for the child.
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