How the TeenCue Rating works
The TeenCue Rating is a score from 0 to 100 for how well an AI app protects kids and teens. It’s built only from what each company publishes and what regulators have found, and every point links to its source.
The four bands
- 75 to 100: Strong protections
- 50 to 74: Some protections
- 25 to 49: Weak protections
- 0 to 24: Few or no protections
What we score (100 points)
- Age rules and checks (15): a published minimum age, checks beyond a typed birthday, and a separate experience for under-18s.
- Teen protections (20): stricter content filters for minors, no sexual or romantic roleplay with minors, break or time prompts, and limits on companion-style features for teens.
- Parental controls (20): parents can link accounts, set hours, turn features off, and get an email about serious risks.
- Data and privacy for minors (20): minors’ chats aren’t used for training by default, deletion is easy, there are no targeted ads to minors, and retention limits are clear.
- Safety response (15): crisis resources when self-harm comes up, a way to report harmful content, and a published teen safety policy.
- Track record (10): starts at 10. Points come off only for official findings, such as a regulator’s order or settlement or a court judgment. Lawsuits and news stories alone never cost points.
Our rules
- Public evidence only: the company’s own policy pages, help center, terms and announcements, and regulator documents. Every point links to its source and the date we checked it.
- This is TeenCue’s opinion, based on the published evidence shown on each rating page.
- Companies can send corrections using the form on any rating page. If the evidence supports a change, we make it within 10 business days.
- We re-check every rating each quarter, and whenever a company announces a change to its teen policies. Every rating shows the date it was last checked.
- Ratings are never paid for or sponsored.
- We don’t rate TeenCue or tools that compete with it.
Why we built it
Parents keep asking us which AI apps are safe for their kids. App stores don’t answer that, and company announcements are hard to compare. The TeenCue Rating puts the public facts in one place, in the same format for every app.