BBC iPlayer Kids is an Android app developed by BBC Media App Technologies. Others apps created by BBC Media App Technologies are: BBC Sounds: Radio & Podcasts, BBC Learning English, BBC Mundo, BBC Russian.

BBC iPlayer Kids first became available on 29 Mar 2016. It is estimated that BBC iPlayer Kids has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

BBC iPlayer Kids 1.109.0.24694 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.