Digital parenting, without guesswork
Gadget Minder gives parents clear controls for screen time, app access, and safety boundaries, while children get consistent limits that are hard to bypass — and extra minutes when they have earned them.
What makes us different
Most parental controls only take time away. Gadget Minder also lets you hand it back: homework done early or a good week at school, and you grant extra minutes for a specific app straight from your phone. It reaches the child's device in seconds, leaves tomorrow's normal limit untouched, and can be cancelled just as fast.
Set time windows, daily limits, and focused schedules so distracting apps stay blocked during school, bedtime, or family hours.
Gadget Minder is designed to resist easy disable attempts by protecting key settings with parent PIN control.
Track usage trends and enforce policies from the parent side, with quick updates that sync to the child device.
Built with Android behavior in mind, including manufacturer-specific flows where needed for more reliable enforcement.
Gadget Minder is not about spying. It is about creating predictable boundaries that help children stay safe, develop discipline, and reduce daily conflict around devices.
View how data is handledThe parent app, running on Android. Tap any screen to view it full size. Names shown are examples.
Gadget Minder is a parental control app for Android. A parent installs the parent app on their own phone and pairs it with their child's device using a one-time code. From then on the parent can block apps, set daily time limits, schedule allowed hours, and filter websites remotely.
Yes, and it is one of the things that sets Gadget Minder apart. From the parent app you can grant extra minutes to a specific app immediately — for homework finished early, or chores done — and it takes effect on the child's device within seconds. The extension does not change that app's normal daily limit, so the usual rules return the next day, and you can cancel it at any time.
Both apps run on Android 9.0 or later. The child device needs the Gadget Minder Kid app; the parent uses the Gadget Minder app on their own phone or tablet. There is no iPhone version.
Gadget Minder is built to resist the common workarounds: settings that would disable it are protected by a parent PIN, uninstalling requires that PIN, and monitoring restarts itself if the system stops it. No parental control on Android is impossible to defeat, but casual attempts — force-stopping the app, clearing data, or opening Settings to remove it — are blocked.
No. Gadget Minder does not collect messages, call logs, photos, contacts, keystrokes, microphone audio or location. Website rules are applied on the device itself, and browsing history is never sent to our servers. What is collected is limited to what enforcing limits requires: which apps are installed and how long each is used.
Yes. Website rules apply across every browser on the device rather than one at a time, using an on-device filter. You can run a block list, where everything is allowed except the sites you name, or an allow list, where everything is blocked except the sites you approve.
Gadget Minder is in active testing on Android. Beta testers help shape it — and get full access to every feature of the Gadget Minder Kid and Parent apps.