Questions parents ask.

Kinuvo helps you guide your child’s phone use. You use the Kinuvo app on your phone, and your child’s Android phone runs Kinuvo Kids. You set fair screen-time and app rules, keep harmful websites away, get notified when your child arrives at places you choose, and receive their SOS. Kinuvo Kids is visible to your child and never reads their messages.

The Kinuvo app for parents runs on Android. Kinuvo Kids, for your child’s phone, needs Android 7.0 or newer. There is no Kinuvo Kids for iPhone or iPad.

In Kinuvo, tap Add Child to show a QR code and a pairing code (KIN-XXXX-XXXX), valid for 10 minutes. On your child’s phone, open Kinuvo Kids, scan the QR code or type the code, and add your child’s name, avatar and age. Your child then appears in your app. The two phones connect through Kinuvo’s secure service, never directly.

A few minutes. Most of it happens on your child’s phone, where Kinuvo Kids explains seven permissions one at a time before Android asks for them.

No. Your child’s name, avatar and age are entered on their phone during pairing. You can edit them later from your app.

Your child can type the pairing code instead of scanning it. Codes last 10 minutes and can be used once; if one expires, tap Add Child again for a new one.

Yes. Each child has their own phone, rules, alerts and reports, and you switch between them at the top of the Home screen.

Yes. Sign in to the same Kinuvo account on each parent’s phone. Every signed-in phone gets alerts, requests and SOS. Separate co-parent accounts aren’t available.

Not at the moment. Create your account with your email address and a password.

No. Kinuvo Kids is a visible app that explains itself to your child. It doesn’t read messages, capture what your child types, record the screen or keep a history of the websites they visit. It records only what its features need, like app time, location for your saved places and the sites it blocked.

Kinuvo Kids shows your child their Daily Limit and time left, their next schedule, how many App Limits and blocked apps apply, whether Web Protection is on, and that their location is shared. It also has an SOS tab and a way to ask for more time. Before each sensitive permission is switched on, it explains in plain words what it’s for.

Kinuvo is designed to be used openly. Your child can see their rules, gets reminders before time runs out, and can ask for more time or for a blocked app instead of arguing. Screens are calm and never punitive.

No. Your child sees the rules that apply to them and the answers to their own requests. They can’t see your app, reports or other children, and they can’t change or pause rules.

Apps pause with a calm screen until tomorrow. Phone calls, Settings and the home screen keep working, and your child can tap Ask for more time. You decide.

Yes. Use the same limit every day, a weekdays and weekend split, or a different limit for each day of the week.

Yes. You can add Bonus Time for today in one tap, or approve your child’s request with the amount you choose: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour or your own amount. Bonus Time never carries over to tomorrow.

Your child sees that it wasn’t approved and can ask again after 10 minutes. Only one request can be open at a time.

Yes. Add them to Always Allowed, for example a reading or school app. They stop using Daily Limit time from that moment, but they still follow any App Limit, schedule, block or Phone Lock.

Yes. Kinuvo Kids sends reminders at 15, 5 and 1 minute left, as long as notifications are allowed on your child’s phone.

Kinuvo is designed so that changing the phone’s date, time or time zone doesn’t reset the Daily Limit or add time.

The Daily Limit is a total for the whole phone. App Limits cap individual apps, for example one hour of a video app on school days. You can use both together.

They stay on the phone but can’t be opened. Your child sees a calm screen that explains why, and can tap Request Access to ask you.

Yes, if you turn on Ask Me to Approve New Apps (new apps wait for your decision) or Auto Block New Apps (new apps are blocked and you’re told). You’re also notified when an app is uninstalled.

Yes. Tap Lock Device Now on your Home screen. It stays locked until you unlock it, and calls still work.

Yes. Every child starts with a ready-made Night Screen Lock from 9 PM to 7 AM that you switch on with one tap, and you can create your own schedules for homework or dinner.

Yes, with an Internet Schedule. It covers Wi-Fi and mobile data, and apps that don’t need the internet keep working. There’s no instant one-tap pause; create or switch on a schedule that covers now instead.

Nine categories you choose from: Adult Content (on from the start), Violence, Gambling, Dating, Drugs, Weapons, Social Media, Malware and Phishing, plus any website you add. You can also allow specific sites. Categories use curated lists of known sites, not the whole internet, so you can add anything they miss.

No. Kinuvo keeps no browsing history. When a site is blocked, it records the site name, the reason and the time so you can see blocked attempts. Those records are kept for 30 days.

No. Web Protection works on whole websites, not individual pages, videos or searches.

Yes. Web Protection and Internet Schedule work on Wi-Fi and mobile data.

Kinuvo uses Android’s VPN slot for its Network Protection, and Android allows only one VPN at a time, so another VPN app will conflict with Web Protection and Internet Schedule.

No. You see your child’s latest reported location with how recent it is, and where they’ve been over the last 30 days. Kinuvo records more detail while your child is travelling, but it isn’t a second-by-second tracker.

Yes. Save School as a place and turn on an arrive alert, a leave alert or both.

Yes. Kinuvo Kids explains location sharing during setup, before Android asks for permission, and its Dashboard always shows that location is shared.

Your child taps SOS and a three-second countdown starts, which they can cancel. Then every phone you’re signed in on gets an urgent alert, with their location when it’s available. Tap I’m on my way and your child sees that help is coming. If their phone has no connection, the SOS keeps trying to send.

No. Kinuvo’s SOS reaches you, not emergency services. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

An SOS, your child arriving at or leaving a saved place, a new app waiting for approval or blocked automatically, a request for more time or for a blocked app, an app being uninstalled, and a key protection setting being switched off. There are no alerts for the Daily Limit running out, an app being blocked or a schedule starting.

Reports cover up to the last 30 days: App Usage, Location, Installed Apps and Web Blocked Attempts. Alerts stay in your feed for 24 hours.

Not at the moment. Reports are available in the Kinuvo app.

No. Kinuvo doesn’t read messages, chats or emails, capture what’s typed, or record or screenshot the screen.

Only what its features need: which apps your child uses and for how long, the apps installed on their phone, location, the websites that were blocked, and the phone’s status, such as battery, language and the Wi-Fi network it’s connected to. Our privacy page lists everything, and why.

No. The Kinuvo apps contain no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting software.

Not without you. Removing Kinuvo Kids or changing its protection needs your Parent PIN, and you’re alerted if Accessibility or Usage Access is switched off. A full factory reset of the phone would remove it, as with any app.

A 6-digit code that protects removing a child, disconnecting or replacing a child’s phone, and unlocking Kinuvo’s protection on your child’s phone for two minutes.

Contact us and we’ll help. Resetting them inside the app isn’t available yet.

Data travels over encrypted connections, passwords and PINs are stored only as one-way hashes, and sensitive details such as your child’s contact information are additionally encrypted.

Alerts stay in your feed for 24 hours. App usage, location history and blocked-site records are deleted after 30 days.

Their alerts, SOS history and app approvals are deleted right away, and their usage and location history within 30 days.

We’ll publish Kinuvo’s pricing before launch. Billing isn’t available in the app yet.

Store links will appear on our Download page as soon as Kinuvo is available.

Kinuvo is currently available in English.