Parental Control by Boomerang

This app has been a blessing for me and my wife. We always thought parenting is the best way to limit screen time. How naive. Boomerang has helped us keep our boys’ education (grade 3 and 1) on track during this pandemic while we were thrust into the role of homeschoolers. After set up, the kids’ tablets have become virtual classes and every moment spent not “in class” has looked like recess with the boys running around and playing physically. We had to manually hide the tv remotes of course.

I find it quite despicable how this company is making the app look so great and when I actually use it on my kids it DOES NOT WORK. The screentime did not work like said. I caught my son watching inappropriate movies at 11pm in his room! Nobody waste your time with this app.

Update 2:useless app, don’t waste your money it do not work most of the time. I need to uninstall it and install again to have it work couple day. I have 2 recent ipad, same issue on both. Update 1: Seem that now it works, deleted the app and setting helped. Will know more in a day or two.. I use bommerang for a year on their beta service for free. Worked 100% of the time. Then it started to work 90% of the time. The service is now paid and I was not sure if it was reliable enough to paid... But I really need it so a paid. Now it is unusable. 1 ipad works, receive the command. But when sending new command it take age. At least 5 min before the command is receive and acknowledge. Since it use their server to relay the command I guess their server is busy/slow or ??... t Also note that without wifi or internet connection the ipad will not lock scheduled timed. the lock need to come from their server at the scheduled time. The second ipad works 1 out of 3 days. Completely removed the app and the remote control configuration. re-install.. then worked everything was lock. trying to unlock, no success, Bommerang report the ipad having push notification disabled. but everything is turned on. So useless and can’t fix the issue on that ipad (everything else works perfectly) Also the the remote control configuration is locked with the ipad passcode when you want to remove it. Dumb, since if your kids are smart, then they can disable the locking in 2 seconds. I saw other app that use a custom code instead. I wish Bommerang will work.. I will give it another try, but i have not much hope in that software.

All you need in one app ...

Absolutely trash! Just want it off my phone and my children’s phones

There was an issue where it was failing to load after the last update but they promptly corrected the issue and all is working as designed once again! Great app for keeping my daughter on track and only able to be an iPad zombie for certain hours of the day.

Doesn't let me do anything it stooks u and knows exactly what ur doing I definitely don’t recommend it

Got the app to help my son with Asperger’s, manage screen time during school hours. Due to some OCD tendencies, my son prefers all icons be in folders rather than cluttering up the home screen. Worked fine in removing access to apps by removing the icons - but when the icons reappear they don’t go back into the folders, which causes to much stress and aggravation - having to rearrange icons 3 times a day. Otherwise would have worked well.

The app doesn't work unless the latest update is done all the time. It also seems to leave YouTube and Netflix running past bedtime. Not working out for us.

Makes our iOS devices kid friendly!