Screen Time - Media Time Manager App Reviews

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.

Concept is great however i was looking sown thing more for my 13 year old son to have it in the background so i can know how much time he uses his iPod, not one that i would need to monitor back to him all the time. Thanks anyway

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.

This keeps us accountable, very useful!

While Ive only used this app for one day, Im very happy with it! We are implementing a screen time limit, chores, allowance and reward system for our children. This app will be so helpful! Also, excellent communication with the app developer. Unlike most, they really do want user feedback.

Constantly crashes. The time I entered is not what shows up. Cant find a way to adjust it. Not worth the trouble. Waste of a dollar.

Best app I have purchased in a long time. Works perfect! Thanks Mr. Liberal

I love this app. I work for a company where we recommend parents regulate childrens screen time and this works perfectly.

This app is simple and easy to use. You can easily help your child complete task and gain rewards in this app. Set goals for your child so they can earn many different things such as reading time, ipad time, ect. This app makes all this easy and then you can post to facebook, twitter, ect. if you wish as well.

I think this is a great app for parents to use for managing your kids tasks and time on the computer, ipad, television etc. The redeem section is a great way to teach kids how to manage their time and money.

Overall, this is a good app to help monitor your child or childrens media time usage. It enables you to set the amount of time per child. The child can earn extra time by making healthy choices and can earn rewards by trading in time. You are able to add, change, delete rewards as it comes with some already put in for you. This would need to most likely be run by the parent as it may be to difficult for younger children to use and older children may change the settings.

I love the idea of this app, but it will not work for you if you set a weekly allowance for your kids. Ive even tried to work around this by dividing it up on a daily basis, but if they choose to watch a movie one day it just wont work with the app as we limit our kids to 4 hrs a week, that breaks down to 35 min per day. My understanding is they are adding weekly allowance to next update, until then this app is pretty much worthless to me. Please update soon!!!

Love this app. It makes it easy to track all of my kids screen time! They like it, too! They like the visual of how much time they have left for the day.

This app absolutely helps us control screen time. The kids look forward to earning rewards, I dont have to try to track earnings and time, and the app does everything I was looking for! Its the perfect screen time tracker app. Absolutely perfect!!