tvusage Parental Control App

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About this app

Pause screen, Play life 🪴

tvusage is a screen-time, app blocker, and digital wellbeing app for families and individuals using Android TV, Android phones, and Android tablets.

Parents and legal guardians can use tvusage to set screen-time limits, app blocks, and daily routines on a supervised child device. Adults can also install tvusage on their own device to understand their app habits, set personal limits, reduce distractions, and build healthier screen routines.

When monitoring is active, a persistent notification is displayed on the device so the device user can see that tvusage is running. tvusage must not be used for undisclosed monitoring of another person's device.

Key Features

🔐 Lock apps or the device with a 4 digit PIN for family rules or personal boundaries.
🕰 Set screen-time limits and allowed usage hours for apps or the device.
📚 Group multiple apps together and set shared restrictions for study, focus, entertainment, or bedtime.
🍿 Set watch breaks to prevent extended viewing sessions.
🌩️ Sync multiple profiles across supported devices.
♾️ Allow unlimited use for specific apps.
🚫 Block distracting apps completely.
🗑 Help protect against app uninstall attempts on a supervised child device when enabled by a parent or guardian.
💡 Understand daily and weekly usage habits for each app.

Accessibility Service

tvusage can use an optional Accessibility service on a supervised child device, or on an adult user's own device, to detect the active app or window and enforce app blocking and screen-time limits in real time.

If uninstall protection is enabled by a parent or legal guardian, tvusage may also inspect limited text shown on Android uninstall screens so it can stop removal attempts for protected apps.

tvusage does not capture typed text and does not use Accessibility-derived data for ads, profiling, or unrelated third-party sharing. The app still works without this service, but some real-time restriction features are reduced.

Uninstall Protection

When uninstall protection is enabled by a parent or legal guardian, tvusage can block removal attempts for protected apps on supported supervised child devices. This protection is optional and is intended only for supervised child-device use.

Monitoring Disclosure

tvusage is a parental control and self-control application. It is intended for parents and legal guardians managing their minor children's screen time on supervised child devices, and for adults managing screen time on their own devices.

tvusage monitors app usage, enforces restrictions, and displays a persistent notification on the monitored device while monitoring is active. Do not use tvusage to monitor another adult's device without that adult's clear knowledge and consent.

For help, contact [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

Great idea, but needs work! Unfortunately, with any lag (even a tiny amount- I have a Chromecast with Google TV, so not that slow), it's very easy to bypass the pin to install apps, just by hitting install quickly enough before the pin wall pops up. My kids will figure this out instantly. If there was a way to make this app so it blocked access to the app store altogether, this might work better.

Does the job, has good control - both schedule and total time. And easy to add more time. 2 things they could do better: 1. Allow controlling from an app on an android phone 2. Don't make the control only usable with a remote. On a shield ATV often the main usage is through a game controller, so should have worked with it too, but doesn't

I purchased the TV Basic plan for one device to control my children’s screen time, but the software has been extremely unreliable. It worked initially, then stopped functioning parental controls fail to activate, allowing unrestricted access. I now have to manually reset the locks every time the TV is turned on, which defeats the purpose. Overall, a very disappointing experience and a waste of money.

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