Parental Control App - Grace

Seems good at first. Support doesn’t respond at all, so the app is not worth buying in my opinion. It’s limited by what Apple provides in the Screen Time API, which I have found sparse and buggy at times. This app is an improvement on Apple Screen Time alone, but combined with zero support maybe not enough to justify purchase. If it was super helpful and had support I may consider buying Lifetime subscription.

Out of all the apps I have tried , this one seems to have the strongest potential to fit with our family. I’ve been looking for an app that improves on and uses apples api. I found another recently that uses it for setup but not for anything else which didn’t work for us. This one seems to have all the features and simplicity I’m looking for while being built off Apple api. My only issue is the lack of app picker on the parent device and the developers lack of response. I’m concerned this is a dead app as it has not been updated in 6 mos and the developer won’t respond. If the app gets more support, I will probably be back. For now we are going back to apples solution.

We have a lot of devices among three teenagers and I've tried many of these kinds of apps. This one shows the greatest potential but it's unreliable when it comes to seeing newly installed apps or even apps that have been present for a long time. At times some apps just show as API connections in the websites list. Support has been hit or miss with early on support being very responsive but in recent times less so. This can be frustrating as a paying user. Bottom line - use this if you have the patience to tinker, restart, remove, if restrictions aren't super critical, and you have a backup means of administrating devices for kids. At first the developer was responsive but now after attempting three times for different issues I’m afraid we’ll be going back to Ourpact.

This app is almost there and I’d LOVE to be done with apple’s on board screen time regulation. It has a few limitations as others have stated but my biggest gripe is that it just randomly stops working. Works reliably for weeks then suddenly my daughter is on for two hours when the app clearly indicates “limit has been reached”. Very frustrating.

Would love to actually review this but it simply will not work. I’ve reached out to the developer multiple times since November and never received a response. I’ve paid for it and they will not respond to my requests for help. Update: still no response from developers either from this review or over email.

After I installed this I noticed the screen time passcode was removed. So app limits were ignored. The fault with these screen time protections lies entirely with apple. The screen time functionality for iOS is pathetic, so disappointing. This app while nice and well meaning is limited by that fact.

I only give it two stars because it does do a good job with parental controls not otherwise available on the iPhone. However I had to discontinue my subscription and delete the app on all my kids’ and my devices because, after investigating for several weeks, I realized this app was the reason I stopped receiving my kids’ Ask To Buy requests. The moment I deleted all of the apps, requests started coming through again. I’m disappointed that this app caused the problem because it was nice to have multiple scheduled limitations. I will also say the app often freezes and doesn’t always keep settings saved in the schedules I set. Very bummed that I payed for a subscription before realizing this.

All the 5 stars are the parents.

Grace is fantastic. Easy to use and doesn’t freeze my child’s phone. Provides us with the right amount of control for our situation. Great app!!

I LOVE the widgets! But with Grace the specific contact restrictions I had in place with iOS screen time are gone. It was really helpful to restrict my daughters time to chat with her friends but still allow her to call me or her dad. Is there any way to fix this?