Features
What each control does, and where it stops
Everything in Koby's first version, with the limits of each control. If a control can't be checked on a device, Koby says so.
Rules and routines
Set the daily routine once, and Koby applies it every day.
Screen time limits
A daily budget overall or for chosen apps and categories. Your child sees the time left, and on a computer gets a warning 5 minutes and 1 minute before it runs out. You can also block an app completely; extra time does not unlock it.
School & sleep schedules
Chosen apps pause during school hours and at bedtime, by weekday, in the time zone of your child's device. Bedtime can run past midnight.
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 and can add a short reason. You approve, adjust or decline. Unanswered requests expire after 30 minutes.
Extra time without a request
Add bonus minutes whenever you like. Extra time adds to limits but never overrides school, bedtime or a pause, and it ends at midnight.
Tasks and rewards
Set tasks that earn stars. You confirm each finished task, and your child keeps a streak, collects badges and spends stars on rewards you choose, such as extra time.
Safer browsing and whereabouts
Web filtering comes with every plan and location with Family. Both have clear limits.
Web filtering
Standard or Strict filtering of adult websites on iPhone and iPad, using Apple's filter, plus allow and block lists for your family. It does not filter what happens inside apps. Mac and Windows have no web filter.
Last known location
Shows where your child's iPhone last reported from, how long ago, and how accurate it was. Koby does not track live and keeps no location history. The last location is deleted after 7 days.
Trust you can see
How you can tell that a control is 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 shows “Applied” only after the device confirms it.
Second parent
Each parent has their own sign-in. Share a one-time code to add a second parent, and remove their access 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
We left some of these out on purpose. Others are limits set by phone makers. It helps to 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 may build after launch. There are no dates yet, and we won't promise them until they are ready.
- Safe places with arrival notifications
- Site access requests
- 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 and iPad app is coming to the App Store. The Mac app will be on the Mac App Store and on our website, and the Windows app on our website.
