Boomerang Parental Control

National Education Technologies Inc.

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About this app

Boomerang Parental Control: Empower Your Child’s Digital Wellbeing

Boomerang Parental Control is your trusted partner in fostering healthy tech habits for your children. With our comprehensive tools, you can monitor, manage, and guide your child's digital experiences. Use our activity reports to spark conversations about your child's online activities and understand their interests.

Transform screen time battles into opportunities for growth with Boomerang’s robust features for Android devices.

Flexible Screen Time:
Set daily device time limits and schedules to encourage balanced tech use. Our detailed app usage reports provide insights into your child's digital habits.

Screen Time Schedules:
Implement device downtime at bedtime to eliminate distractions from games and social media. Ensure devices are charged outside the bedroom for a restful night.

Per App Daily Limits:
Customize screen time further by setting individual daily limits for specific apps, ensuring that high-use apps like social media and streaming services are balanced within the overall device usage.

Safe Browsing:
Protect your child with our free SPIN Safe Browser (or continue using Chrome), which enforces Google SafeSearch and blocks millions of inappropriate websites. Many other parental control apps do not offer web filtering, including Family Link. Additionally, Boomerang's app blocking feature ensures a safe browsing experience by blocking all other web browsers both installed or not installed on your child's device.

Location Tracking Safety:
Check-in on your child's device recent location. Set geofences and get notification when your child arrives / leaves. Review your child's recent location history (up to 30 days).

App Control:
Monitor and control app installations and usage. Approve or block new apps and receive alerts for games, social media and even inappropriate apps. Engage in meaningful conversations about their app interests and sources.

YouTube App History Monitoring:
Access your child's YouTube viewing and search history from your parent device. Ensure safer YouTube usage by enabling Restricted Mode and following our how-to guide: https://goo.gl/Do8h9a.

Encourage Good Apps:
Promote positive screen time by allowing unlimited access to educational and beneficial apps. Set preferences for learning, language, math, health, and other valuable apps that support your child's development.

Why Choose Boomerang Parental Control?
Boomerang Parental Control is designed to help parents like you nurture a healthy digital environment for your children. Join thousands of parents who trust Boomerang to balance screen time, safeguard online activities, and encourage positive digital habits.

Download Boomerang Parental Control today and take the first step towards empowering your child's digital wellbeing.



Important Notes for Child Mode
This app uses the Device Administrator permission
This app uses AccessibilityService API to perform key functions such as screen time and app controls.
Samsung Knox: Exclusive to Samsung devices to enhance the security and capabilities of the Boomerang Parental Control app.
Notification Access: Needed to mute notifications when time's up
Supports Android 9.x and higher

Resources
Visit our Knowledge Base for frequently asked questions: https://community.useboomerang.com/hc/en-us
Contact our Support Team: [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

*Edit3*As my one year subscription comes to an end soon. These are things I would like to point out. Updates- Like most updates, these cause issues. So much so that the app becomes unusable sometimes. Collection of data - not sure if text or call data collection truly functions. Hasn't in the year I have had the app. Final thoughts- With all of that being said. The app is still nice to have for bedtime routines and tracking kiddos locations. On the fence about renewing for another year.

Been using for a few months now. So far the app has been ok and works pretty well. However, the user interface could use a redesign to be more user friendly and functional. The text message monitoring interface is almost laughable. When the phone finally reports back, messages are listed in order as they are sent/rcvd instead of organized by contacts/group chats. It's nearly impossible to follow a conversation. We used the Pinwheel phone previously and their text monitoring is far superior.

App capabilities are great... when they are working. When I "extend time" or apply a "time-out", the circle just keeps turning and it doesn't actually register. Sometimes my daughter will restart her phone and then the action will work. But this defeats the purpose of these actions. Please send an update.

What’s new

Crashes and Bug fixes.