Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. announced the early May launch of its highly-anticipated and completely redesigned COPPA-compliant (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) social media app just for kids, Grom Social. The culmination of several months of redesigning its interface and sign-up process, the new Grom app places primary emphasis on several new features to further ensure the safety of its users while boasting fun to both engage kids and educate them about the growing importance of embracing digital safety habits at a young age. The new Grom app will debut in iOS beginning in early May, with the updated interface for Android users slated to premier at a later date.

The updated Grom Social app comes with a brand-new look, feel, and experience with all the safety integrations today's kids deserve and need. Existing users and their parents will migrate from the current experience to immediately enjoy Grom's exciting new environment and interface. Leading the new safety features will be a new parent-child video verification process that ensures that parents and caregivers have granted consent to their child.

Additionally, Grom's new 3D avatar asset library allows kids to create their own profile avatar using hundreds of assets featuring a variety of complexions, hairstyles, clothing, accessories, animations, and more. The app's new camera allows users to create and post videos utilizing the latest in augmented reality (AR) technology. When it comes to safety, Grom incorporates the latest advancements in online safety measures, ensuring compliance with COPPA regulations and providing parents with enhanced control and monitoring features.

Despite the challenges posed by the evolving digital landscape, Grom remains dedicated to creating a safe and enjoyable online environment for children worldwide. Parents can have full confidence in their child's digital experience with Grom's parent monitoring features, through which parents will have full control of their child's profile, and view every post, comment, message, and friend. Additionally, parents can limit their child's screen time and will be promptly notified if their child has violations the app's rules on digital citizenship.

Children under 13 are legally barred from social media without a parent's permission to protect them from content intended for older consumers and prevent the use or sale of their data. Grom never sells its user's data. Grom Social, which began as a website in 2012, and was upconverted to a mobile app in 2018, is designed to help parents teach their kids about safe social media in a fully secure environment exclusively for kids under 13.

Grom offers a fun, escapist atmosphere where kids can be kids and also access short-form content through the app's Digital Citizenship Licensing (DCL) course (coming later this year), in which they get interactive lessons on the importance of digital safety and navigating online environments. Today, Grom Social serves as the model social media for kids 13 and in 2016, inspired Grom Educational Services, which helps protect kids when in online learning environments and on school-issued devices through its NetSpective web filter solution.