KidSpy: Parental Control
Fair screen time through tasks and rewards.
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Details
- External ID
- 1272357
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ximos - Parental Control
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Android, Parenting, Kids, Family
Description
KidSpy helps parents set daily screen limits, choose apps to restrict when time runs out, and motivate children with task-based rewards. Parents assign tasks and review submissions, while kids earn bonus minutes for completing them. Built for Android families who want clearer rules, healthier screen habits and fewer arguments.
Enrichment
- Niche
- distraction and screen time blockers
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- parental control app with task-based screen time rewards for families
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While task management and reward tracking are basic CRUD features, programmatic app blocking and screen time enforcement on Android require deep Android system-level permissions and background service management.
What it would actually take: Building the parental control mechanism requires native Android development using UsageStatsManager, AccessibilityService, and DevicePolicyManager (Device Admin / Knox APIs) to detect foreground apps and lock the screen. Handling battery optimization killers, preventing uninstallation, and ensuring service persistence require specialized Android systems expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 163 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 164 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kidbloom: Time for kid · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Simple ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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- PaceOut · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- eGuard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Taskli · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Coop: Family Chores · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tiipee, Reward Less Screen Time · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47