Fledge Companion

Wolf Cub Ventures

About this app

Fledge Companion is the dedicated child-device application designed to work hand-in-hand with Fledge Parent. Together, Fledge helps families establish healthy digital boundaries, cultivate focused study habits, and navigate the digital world safely and transparently.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Fledge Companion is a parental control companion app. It must be paired with the Fledge Parent application installed on a parent or guardian device to activate safety guardrails and wellbeing schedules.

KEY FEATURES:

1. Balanced Screen Time & Focus Goals
Help children build balanced screen habits with custom daily limits and focus schedules. When focus time or limits are reached, Fledge gently redirects the device to the home screen so kids can transition back to real-world activities.

2. Bedtime Wind-Down
Protect restful sleep with scheduled wind-down routines. Fledge Companion delivers proactive bedtime reminders and prevents late-night screen disruption during designated sleeping hours.

3. Real-Time Safety Guardrails
Transparent, AI-powered safety analysis helps protect children from acute digital hazards (such as predatory behavior, cyberbullying, and harmful content) while preserving privacy.

4. Privacy-First Protection
Fledge operates with hardcoded privacy boundaries. Banking applications, financial portals, and password managers are strictly excluded from inspection at the system layer. Personal phone calls, SMS messages, and emails are never recorded.

5. Open & Transparent Supervision
Fledge believes in trust and open communication between parents and children. Whenever companion monitoring is active, an ongoing, non-dismissible system notification is displayed on the child device so they are always aware of active protections.

PERMISSIONS & ACCESSIBILITY DISCLOSURE:
To provide parental control, focus goal enforcement, and safety monitoring, Fledge Companion requires explicit parental permission for the following Android system capabilities:

- Accessibility Service: Used strictly to detect active foreground applications for screen time limits, redirect to the home screen when limits or bedtime schedules are reached, and inspect on-screen content for severe safety risks to notify parents. Fledge does NOT use accessibility services to perform autonomous clicks, gestures, or actions inside third-party apps.
- Usage Stats: Used to calculate screen time usage trends and report daily app activity to parents.
- Notification Listener: Optionally used to monitor media playback controls so parents understand media consumption. Personal chats and messaging notifications are never read.

What’s new

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