Screen Time - Media Time Manager app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
4064 ratings )
Lifestyle
Education
Developer:
Rod Liberal
2.99 USD
Current version:
2.0.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 05 Jan 2011
App size: 14.98 Mb
"An app that motivates my kid to clean his room? I am so in." - Cool Mom Tech
"Impressive features that many parents will appreciate I’m sure." - Bibsy @ itsMyi
"Parental management the 21st century way!!! This is an application that we will be using frequently and can help any type of family." - Andrea @ Applicable2U
Finally a way to manage your childrens screen time!
"Children in the United States watch an average of three to four hours of television a day. By the time of high school graduation, they will have spent more time watching television than they have in the classroom. - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"
One of CBS News and Forbes Magazine recommended apps for families.
Screen Time was developed by a dad of 3 young boys who love technology. It was with them in mind that this easy-to-track tool was born.
We understand tv and gadgets are an important part of our kids lives and can be used to provide educational opportunities for them. At the same time, we want our kids to develop healthy viewing habits and feel empowered by the choices they make.
Screen Time is NOT just a time tracker!
With Screen Time, you can:
* Assign daily, weekly, or custom minute allowances for each child. Allowances can be set to repeat each day or accumulate based on your preference.
* Empower children to earn screen minutes by doing chores and displaying good behavior.
* Encourage your kids to give up those minutes (with a kid-friendly screen) for other activities and rewards. Kids learn valuable skills by saving minutes for delayed gratification.
* Customize and have fun!!! Add, change, or remove tasks and rewards to fit yours and your kids needs.
Children need a balanced lifestyle that involves a great mix of rich activities, both indoors and outdoors. Let us help you take care of their media interactions.
We welcome your feedback!
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Note: Screen Time cannot (as any other app) automatically track your device’s usage or lock kids out of apps or the device itself as it is against Apple’s usage policies. Our app is meant for the involvement of parents in managing and actively tracking their kids’ time. We help create a healthy relationship between parents and kids in dealing with one of the main challenges we have in our highly technological age.
Rod Liberal is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: Parents
Categories: Parents
Pros and cons of Screen Time - Media Time Manager app for iPhone and iPad
Screen Time - Media Time Manager app good for
What We Liked:
Our family adores our iDevices, but we (the adults) know that life doesn’t revolve around a screen. There are family members to take care of, meals to make, chores to be done, books to be read, homeschooling to be completed, games to play outside, the list goes on and on! Young children don’t always seem to realize this though.
I love that Screen Time helps parents to set clear boundaries and guidelines for screen usage in their homes that their children can look to for a consistent policy on the amount of time they can watch television, play with the iPod, etc. for. It can be all too easy as parents just to snap when the kids have had ‘too much iPod! Screen Time can help everyone be on the same page.
I really appreciate that you can time multiple children at the same time, so if you have one child on the iPod and another on the iPad – no problem. They can each have their separate timers ticking away.
And who can dislike the fact that you can even encourage children to do more around the house to earn more time on the iPad! You have to love that.
What We Didn’t Like:
Some of the small round buttons were very hard to tap on. They have a very small touchable area and it’s tricky to get the touch JUST right. I’d love to see the tappable space enlarged.
Overall:
If you’re looking for a tool to help you manage your children’s screen time and guide them into maintaining a healthy balance of activities with a minimum of fuss, Screen Time can help. In fact, it might become a vitally important app in your collection of family management tools.
Disclosure: I received a promo code so that I could review this app.
I always found it hard to keep track of how much time the kids spend watching tv and playing on the computer. This app helps me monitor this time. Also, I like how you can add time by doing jobs around the house.
Some bad moments
I was want to put an allowance time lock to my 13 years old sons iPhone. And I love the idea that we can reward him with more time. But I didnt know that someone has to manually start/stop the timer....
It would be amazing if the timer starts as soon as the iPhone is unlock....
This is a rip off. Im frustrated that I paid for this. Its a glorified timer. What child will voluntarily turn a timer ON every time that they begin using their device. I was under the impression the app would immediately begin timing each time the iPad is on and being used. But no, the adult has to literally start and stop the timer each time! I can do that myself with ANY timer. Dont waste your money!!!
App doesnt work as promised. You have to reset the timer each day, but it doesnt automatically come on. Nice idea, failed execution.
This is a clever use to make a couple dollars out of nothing, doesnt have any real use for it.
Being a mother of 6 kids, it is important to monitor and manage entertainment and education activities. This application helps balance responsibilities easily and efficiently.
What a great app. Monitoring kids tv time is so important, its nice to have a tool like this that is so easy to use.
