The video ends. Your child decides what’s next.
A Wheel of real cards by your TV. Your child picks one, scans it, and watches one video. Then the screen goes quiet, and the next choice is theirs: another card, or something else entirely.
Click the card to flip it over.
Charms finds the good stuff. 28,531 videos in the library so far. Your child picks.
From €129 + €18/mo · incl. btw
See what's on the WheelThe afternoon my kids turned off the TV themselves
The first time my kids tried Charms, they scanned a card and watched a four-minute video. When it ended, the screen went quiet. They looked confused, because YouTube always just keeps going. So they picked another card. Then a third. After the third, my daughter looked at the couch, looked at the Wheel, and said to her brother: “Let’s go outside and play.”
Nobody told them to stop. For once, they had the space to decide.
It’s not only what they watch. It’s who decides what’s next.
Video apps are built to remove the moment where a child might stop: autoplay, “up next,” endless suggestions. Even good videos turn into an hour nobody actually chose. Charms gives that moment back.
Pick. Your child chooses a card from the Wheel: a real object, not a scroll.
Scan. One scan on the little Box by the TV, and that one video plays.
Decide. The video ends on a calm, quiet screen. Watching another means getting up and choosing again, and sometimes they choose something else.
“Can’t I just turn off autoplay?”
Turning off autoplay stops the next video. It doesn’t stop the feed, the suggestions or the swipe. Charms works the way putting in a tape used to: getting up and choosing is part of watching. That small bit of effort is the pause where kids decide for themselves.
What you can count on
- No algorithm decides what’s next. Your child picks from the cards you put on the Wheel, nothing else.
- Wiggle Time. Built-in movement breaks, timed by age.
- Your cards stay yours. Cancel anytime; every card you’ve received still plays.
- Calm art. Every card has original watercolor-style art showing what the video is actually about. No shouting faces, no clickbait.
- Paid by you, not advertisers. We optimize for your family’s time, not watch time.
