Block apps and set app limits on your child’s Android phone.
Cap the apps that take the most time, block the ones that aren’t right yet, and stay in the loop when something new is installed, without taking the phone away.
- App LimitA video app1 hour a day on school days
- Block AppsA gameCan’t be opened. Your child can ask for access
- New App ApprovalA new downloadWaits for your OK before it opens
A cap for the apps that need one.
Choose an app from the ones installed on your child’s phone, with their real names and icons, and set minutes per day and the days it applies. Each app has its own allowance, a new day brings a fresh one, and everything else keeps working.
You see each app’s time today next to its limit. When it’s used up, your child sees a calm screen saying they can use it again tomorrow.
Blocked, not deleted.
Pick the apps your child shouldn’t open yet and tap Save Changes. Blocked apps stay on the phone but can’t be opened. Your child sees a screen that explains it: “This app is currently blocked by your parent. You can use it again when your parent allows it.”
A way to ask, built in.
From the blocked screen, your child can tap Request Access. You get a notification and answer with Allow Access or Keep Blocked.
New downloads, your call.
Choose what happens when an app is installed after you turn this on.
- Ask Me to Approve New Apps
- New apps wait for your yes. You can approve or reject from the notification, and your child can send a reminder once every few minutes.
- Auto Block New Apps
- New apps are blocked straight away, and you’re told.
Kinuvo first notes the apps already on the phone, so only genuinely new installs are affected. App updates never count as new apps.
Know when an app disappears.
You’re told when an app is removed from your child’s phone. Updating an app doesn’t trigger this.
Phones down, right now.
Tap Lock Device Now on your Home screen for dinner, a conversation or a moment that needs phones down. Your child sees “Phone Locked. Your phone is currently locked by your parent.” It stays locked until you unlock it, and calls still work.
When rules overlap.
Your child sees one calm screen at a time. Phone Lock comes first, then the Daily Limit, then a Screen Time Schedule, then a blocked app, an App Limit or an app waiting for approval.
Good to know
Honest limits are part of trust.
- Blocking works on apps, not websites (see Safer internet), calls or text messages.
- System apps and Kinuvo Kids itself can’t be blocked or limited.
- New App Approval covers apps installed after you turn it on.
- There’s no “ask for more” for a single app; you can raise its limit any time.
- App Limits follow the phone’s calendar day.
- Phone Lock has no timer; you unlock it yourself.