KidPair: Parental Control

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About this app

KidPair is parental control that your child can see. It helps a family agree on phone rules and keeps you informed about where your child is and whether everything is all right — without secret tracking.

KidPair has two apps: this one goes on your phone, "KidPair — for the child" goes on your child's Android phone or tablet. You install and set up both — the child app best together with your child — and connect it with a 4-digit code. Before anything is connected, the child app lists what the adults will be able to see and do.

WHERE YOUR CHILD IS
• The child's position on a map, with the time and accuracy of each reading
• Places such as home, school or a club: a notice when your child arrives or leaves
• "Not there on time": a notice if your child has not reached a place by the agreed time
• The route of the day and up to 30 days of history
• Accuracy depends on the phone and the place: outdoors with GPS usually 5–20 m, indoors by Wi-Fi about 100 m

SCREEN TIME AND RULES
• A break with one tap, and schedules for sleep, homework and dinner
• A daily screen-time limit for the whole phone, separate for weekdays and the weekend
• Limits for single apps, closed apps, and approval of newly installed apps
• Time per app for the day, week and month, with weekly and monthly reports
• Your child can ask for more time or to open a closed app, and you answer with one tap

SAFETY
• A big SOS button on the child's phone. Your phone rings like a call, even on silent (not in "Total silence" mode), and opens a screen with the map
• Calls with your child inside KidPair, which work during a break or after the limit is spent
• "Sound around": a live audio link from your child's phone, started by you, up to 15 minutes at a time. Your child sees a notification with a Stop button and the system microphone indicator. Audio is not stored on our server or on your child's phone
• "Find device": a loud ring on your child's phone, also through silent mode
• Battery warnings at 20, 10 and 5 %, and a warning if the battery will likely run out before your child gets home

FAMILY
• Family chat with your child, tasks and rewards
• Several adults in one family — your child sees who did what ("Mum started a break")
• A home-screen widget with your child's place, battery and screen time
• A school timetable shown to you and your child

HONEST BY DESIGN
• Your child always sees that parental control is on — a notification, or a banner in the app if the notification is hidden — and a "What adults can see" screen with every kind of data, why it is used and how long it is kept
• The SOS button and calling emergency services always work, even during a break
• If your child's phone stops reporting or protection is turned off, KidPair tells you — it does not pretend everything is fine
• Android limits what any app can do; where a phone cannot do something, KidPair says so

PRIVACY
• No ads, no third-party analytics, no data sold
• Data is stored on KidPair's own server and is seen only by the adults of your family
• You can download a copy of your family's data or delete the family and all its data in the app; any adult can delete their own account. More at kidpair.net/delete-account

Something missing? Write to us. We read every message, and many KidPair features came from parents' requests.

Requires Android 10 or newer on both phones and an internet connection.

What’s new

• A break at a chosen time: date, start and end, just once.
• A school timetable is harder to overwrite, and you can go back to an earlier version within 30 days.
• A new support chat, where you can rate the help with stars.
• New icon.