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Best parental control app for iphone and ipad
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Liana Khanova
Grace — Parental controls for iPhone done right
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Raise children aware of the screen-life balance, teach healthy digital habits, and reduce phone addiction with Grace, a new modern privacy-first parental control app for iOS.
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Salavat Khanov
Maker
Hi Hunters! 👋 This is Liana and Salavat, indie makers of Grace. We’re super excited and happy to finally release the app after months of hard work. Children are glued to screens nowadays (6hrs per day on average). Obviously, it’s not healthy physically and mentally. To make things worse, parents on iOS had two choices: use Apple’s Screen Time or a third-party MDM-based app for parental controls. The former is quite limited and buried in the Settings app, which makes it cumbersome to manage restrictions on the go. The latter misuse the MDM technology, granting third-party companies extensive control over your child's device, like the ability to erase it remotely and access sensitive data, such as the child’s phone number, installed apps, visited websites, etc. We’ve developed Grace to offer a third option. Grace is built using the official Screen Time API that Apple introduced last year. We’ve been able to build a full-featured parental control app, which has the same privacy-first approach, but with a much friendlier interface. We designed Grace to let busy parents easily manage parental restrictions on the go with quick actions like Lock & Pause and flexible Schedules like Study Time, Bedtime, etc. Grace works on iPhone & iPad. Some feature highlights: - Limit Daily Screen Time. - Pause & Lock, quick actions to allow or block everything in one tap. Schedules, automated restrictions for recurring activities, such as Study Time, Bedtime, etc. - Flexible Customizations, ability to block certain apps while allowing others. For example, during the Study schedule, parents may block distracting games and apps while allowing educational apps. - Always Blocked Apps - Block Sites (coming soon) - Block In-App Purchases - Block App Installation & Removal Furthemore, - Manage an unlimited devices for free - Grace is protected from uninstall, so kids can’t delete your restrictions unexpectedly We don't track your Grace usage with Google Analytics like frameworks because we stand for privacy in all terms. Core features of Grace are free. Additional features are available in the Grace+ plan for $19.99/year with 14 days free trial. 🎉SPECIAL OFFER Use code PH2022 to get 1 month for free (this offer expires in 7 days.) We would love to hear your feedback and answer your questions! What do you think about Grace? Thanks a lot for your support! Liana & Salavat.
Liana Khanova
Maker
@khanov OMG! 🙀 TechCrunch just published a post about Grace: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/1... I'm beyond happy and can't express my feelings. 💥
Ivan Kozlov
Looks awesome :) will test Grace tomorrow on my kids 😎
Liana Khanova
Maker
@ikozlov Awesome! Keep us posted on how it goes 😉
deepu
congrats!
Nathan Monk
How is this different to the iOS built in screen time controls?
Liana Khanova
Maker
@nathansmonk Hey Nathan, TechCrunch laid out main differences thoroughly in their review here https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/1... Here are some highlights: - Much more intuitive interface - Flexible Schedules - Quick Actions Pause & Lock - Ability to customize restrictions for Downtime (block some apps, while allowing others)
Liana Khanova
Maker
🥳 Hey Hunters! We're so excited to share Grace with you today. Please feel free to share your feedback, thoughts. We are happy to answer your questions. Many thanks for your support! ❤️ It means the world to us.
Samee Hassan
Great work! Congrats!
Vadim Khamzin
Looks great 👍
Liana Khanova
Maker
@kuberlancer Thanks a lot 🙌
Maya Ben Zid
Both the interface and the feature range really hit the spot. This is definitely a strong contender in the parental control market.
Liana Khanova
Maker
@maya_ovice Thanks a lot!
Sergey Zapuhlyak
My congratulations with launching the app! The problem that you are solving is important. Grace app looks fresh and nice. I had a call with my mom and we tried to setup the app on nephew's iPad. It was not too easy because we did it remotely. Nephew Max is going to the disco tonight and has no idea that I will see and manage him activity on the iPad tomorrow. 🤞
Liana Khanova
Maker
@sergey_zapuhlyak That's funny! 😀 keep us posted on how it goes!
Igor Volodin
Nice idea! Good luck!
Liana Khanova
Maker
@ivolodin Thank you 🌟
Troy (Mitch) Mitchell
@lianakhanova @khanov Congratulations on the launch.
Liana Khanova
Maker
@khanov @mitch_mitchell 🚀Thank you!
Riddhi Dagli
@khanov Congratulations on the launch!! This is an extremely useful and much-needed product! All the best :) Also wanted to know how did you come up with this idea?
Salavat Khanov
Maker
@riddhi_dagli Thanks! It feels like our backgrounds led us to building Grace. Before Grace, Liana worked at her startup, which she started to reduce children’s phone addiction. She created interactive children’s books with AR to switch their focus from entertaining videos and virtual games back to real life, books, and instill the love of reading. I worked on 1Blocker, which focused not only on blocking ads, but also on protecting people’s privacy online. Being in the privacy field, I was aware of Apple’s conflict with MDM-based apps. So we knew about all the shortcomings of Screen Time on iOS and the MDM-saga, we became excited to build a new parental app, which is not based on MDM and offers an easy-to-use interface.
Andrew C.
with the alarming rate at which kids ar using phones these days, this is definitely a must have!
Liana Khanova
Maker
@andrewcanday Can't agree more! Thanks for your support!
nickson durai
@khanov Great product! Congratulations on the launch.👍
Liana Khanova
Maker
@khanov @nickson_durai Thank you! 😊
Shreya Singh
Hey! @khanov Congratulations on the launch! I am really impressed by your product :)
Salavat Khanov
Maker
@shreya_singh13 Thanks!
Stories Album
Congratulations with launching the app!❤️❤️❤️
Dan Kulkov
great job team! app looks stunning
Liana Khanova
Maker
@kronop Thank you! ☀️
Avik Poddar
looks clean, I really like the multi-scheduling options.
Salavat Khanov
Maker
@victor_doom yay! Parents usually set up restrictions for specific recurring activities, so we thought we need scheduling in v1.0.
Denis Pimenov
Great tool! How long did it take to develop it?
Julie Janides
Congratulations on your launch! I really love this. As a parent of three tech-obsessed littles, I cannot wait to try it. Thank you for your hard work--this tool is vital and I know parents will embrace it.
Liana Khanova
Maker
@julie_toytrader Thanks a lot, Julie! 😊 Have you tried Grace? I'd love your feedback! Let me know if you have any question.