Adding and removing sites

Sukhi Play does not pick websites for you. What it ships enabled is three of the apps that live inside the download — Sukhi Colouring, a keyboard playground and first games — because those are files on your own disk with no network behind them and nobody’s terms to accept. A fourth, Jazz’s Studio, is for older children and waits in the catalogue until you add it. Every website is yours to add, and you never need to work out hostnames yourself.

Open the grown-up screen (Grown-ups, hold 3 seconds). Four tabs: play time, installed apps, the catalogue, and settings.

The catalogue, in one tap

Sites that are known to work, grouped by category and labelled no ads, ads filtered or ads showing. Tap one and it arrives on the tile screen with the hosts it needs already filled in.

The list is not reproduced here: it would drift the moment it changed, and it has. It lives at sukhiplay.com/catalogue and in config/suggestions.json, which is the one file both the app and the site are built from.

Nothing in it is endorsed by this project, and none of those sites is connected to it. Read DISCLAIMER.md.

Create a custom app: type an address and it works out the rest

Type pbskids.org. The app opens it once, watches every request it makes, and tells you:

Found 1 host. 2 looked like advertising or tracking and will be blocked.
  pbskids.org

Give the tile a name, press Save, and it writes the allowlist for you. This is the same machinery as npm run check, driven from the interface. Pick one of the sixteen shapes and a colour for the tile: a site’s own favicon is its trademark, and this project has no licence to put one on a tile or in a release.

Your apps: turn things on and off

Each app is a card shaped like the tile your child sees. The switch in its corner decides whether it appears on their screen, and tapping the card opens everything else: name, picture, colour, address, allowed hosts and ad filtering, with Delete at the bottom.

Leaving a site as its operator intended

Some sites say plainly in their terms that you may not interfere with their advertising. blockAds: false is available on any site you add, for exactly that case. Containment still applies in full: your child cannot leave the site, open a popup, or reach anything else.

youtube.com is deliberately not in the catalogue. Recommendations, comments and autoplay make it unsuitable for a small child.