Set the hours for school, homework and bedtime. Your child's iPhone follows them — through reboots, force-quits and days with no signal. The rest of the time, their phone is just their phone.
iPhone and iPad · Built on Apple's Screen Time technology · No tracking, ever
Most parental control apps are surveillance with a dashboard. Kontrl is different on purpose: no location tracking, no message reading, no activity feed. Your child can ask, you decide, and the phone looks normal to everyone else.
Two phones, three steps, no jargon.
School, Homework and Bedtime come ready-made. Change the times, or add places like school so the rules apply whenever they're there.
A six-character code links their phone to yours. Choose which apps pause during restricted hours — everything else keeps working, always.
Restrictions run on their phone itself — not our servers. Reboots, airplane mode, no signal at school: the schedule holds.
Enforcement lives on the phone, not in the cloud. Force-quit the app, restart the phone, lose signal all day — the hours you set still hold.
Blocked from an app they need? Your child taps once to ask, adds a reason like “15 minutes to finish homework research”, and you approve or decline in a tap.
School rules at school, automatically. Their location is checked on their own phone and never leaves it — there's no map, no history, and we couldn't show you where they are if we wanted to.
Ten minutes before apps pause, one quiet heads-up — so nothing dies mid-game. It's the only notification Kontrl ever sends your child.
Blocked apps show a calm, system-style message with when they'll be back. No lectures, no branding, no red badges of shame.
If your child's phone hasn't checked in, or protection stops working, your dashboard says so. No false green ticks.
No feature-gated tiers, no per-child charges. Because “which protections don't I get?” is not a question we want to sell you an answer to.
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For comparison: the big names charge £40–£130 a year — to track your child. We charge less, to not.
Screen Time is good, and Kontrl is built on the same Apple technology underneath. Kontrl adds the things families actually fight about: remote lock and unlock from your phone, requests with reasons instead of a mystery “ask for more time” button, rules that follow places like school, a warning before apps pause, and a dashboard that tells you honestly whether protection is still running.
Neither. Kontrl has no location sharing in either direction. Place rules are checked on your child's own phone and their location never leaves it. This is a design decision, not a missing feature.
Everything that affects them: what mode is on, when it changes, which places have rules, and what happened to their requests. Nothing is hidden from them, because rules people understand are rules they accept.
The schedule already on your child's phone keeps running — a failed card never silently unmanages their phone. Your side becomes read-only until you resubscribe.
Not while it's managing their phone. Removing management is a deliberate parent action, and when you unenroll, everything is released cleanly.
Almost nothing: your sign-in, your schedules, and the request history. No analytics, no crash reporting on your child's phone, no app usage data (Apple keeps that on-device), no locations. See our privacy policy — it's short because there's little to say.