Features
Simple controls, explained honestly
Everything in Koby's first version, what each control does, and where its limits are. If a control can't be checked on a device, Koby says so.
Rules and routines
Set the shape of the day once. Koby applies it on its own.
Screen time limits
A daily budget overall or for chosen apps and categories. Your child sees the time left and gets a fair heads-up.
School & sleep schedules
Chosen apps pause during school hours and at bedtime, by weekday, in your child's time zone. A bedtime that runs past midnight just works.
Instant pause
Pause chosen apps right now, from a few minutes up to 12 hours. End it early with one tap.
Always-allowed apps
Phone, messages and the apps you choose are never blocked by limits or schedules.
Asking instead of arguing
A calm way to handle “just five more minutes”.
Extra-time requests
Your child asks for 5 minutes to 4 hours with an optional short reason. You approve, adjust or decline. Unanswered requests expire after 30 minutes.
Time you can give anytime
Add bonus minutes without a request. Extra time adds to limits but never overrides school, bedtime or a pause, and it ends at midnight.
Safer browsing and whereabouts
Useful basics, with the scope stated plainly.
Web filtering
Standard or Strict filtering of adult websites in supported browsers, plus allow and block lists for your family. Koby lists the covered browsers and does not filter what happens inside apps.
Last known location
Shows where your child's device last reported from, how long ago, and how accurate it was. It is not live tracking, Koby keeps no location history, and the last location is deleted after 7 days.
Trust you can see
The difference between “switched on” and “working”.
Protection status
Each control is shown as Active, Partial, Off or Can't verify, with the technical reason in plain words.
Rule delivery
Every change is marked Sent, Delivered, Applied or Failed for each device. Koby never says “applied” without confirmation from the device.
Second parent
Each parent has their own sign-in. Invitations can be cancelled and access removed at any time.
Child's own screen
Time left, the reason for a pause, the next schedule and who can see what, written for kids.
What Koby does not do
Some things are left out on purpose; others are limits set by phone makers. You should know both before you start.
- Read messages, chats or app content
- Track in secret, or switch on the camera or microphone
- Filter content inside apps such as games or social media
- Promise that a phone can never be reset or a control never removed
- Live, continuous location tracking or location history
- Use workarounds such as jailbreaking or rooting
Being considered after launch
Ideas we are exploring once the basics are proven with families. No dates, and no promises until they are ready.
- Safe places with arrival notifications
- Site access requests
- Tasks and rewards agreed together
- Weekly family summaries
- Caregiver access for a set time
- Android app
Set up your child's first phone the calm way
Create your family in the web panel today. The iPhone, iPad and Mac apps are coming to the App Store.
