Parental Control App - Grace

Just why

Grace parental control is very different from other parental control apps. Unlike what is currently offered this parental control works natively with the apple operating system. What does this mean? It is much harder for kids to circumvent and bypass. If your child is a teenager you will find that parental control is easily by passed and screaming matches with your teen will be frequently on the menu. The devs that created this app are very responsive and friendly and are dedicated to creating an app that manages your child’s usage of their device like no other app out there. It is straight forward set it and forget it with a handy toggle to bypass when occasions warrant it. I highly recommend you try this app out. If you do use apple screen time, take off all restrictions and leave the bare minimum on.

Review

I use it to have more control over my kid’s screen time. I have a set up a sleep schedule and a study schedule. I am no longer the bad guy when it’s time for the kids to put down the iPads. And the app is now compatible with shortcuts, I can lock my 3 kids devices with only one tap ! Very effective to get the kids in the car when it’s time to go !

I don’t think they are managing this app anymore. I get no reply from support. It would be a great app if it worked. I put it on my daughter’s phone and the screen time limit doesn’t work so she had unlimited time. I paid for the upgrade and would like a refund but no one will respond. I only tried it for a week.

When I click lock, my daughter’s iPhone doesn’t lock right away unless I open the app on her phone. If I click unlock, it doesn’t unlock unlock unless I restart the phone.

Started using grace a year ago. Had some flaws but pretty good and it seemed the developers/owners were aware and working on it. Fast forward to now. No updates. Doesn’t work - sometimes at all and sometimes partially. No longer customer support. I think this is a dead app that is just hanging out. Don’t get it.

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.