Parental Control App User Reviews

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Don’t do it!!!

I bought this app to put on my daughters phone and it caused her phone to have so many issues. Her phone was freezing and glitching all the time. The app also froze completely and wouldn’t let her use it when i contacted them and did what they wanted me to do and I told them I was having so many problems they didn’t give me any refund even though it’s only been 3 months of 12 months of the app that I’ve used. I have now taken it off and her phone is working perfectly again! I don’t recommend this app at all, look elsewhere!!!
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Bad!

I can’t even explain how much I dislike this app. It deleted all of my other apps and erased streaks I had on previous apps. I feel bad because someone obviously spent time working for this app to be good but it’s just not working for me and has deleted all of my apps and I can’t get them back somebody please help as soon as possible actually no right now somebody help me right now I’m not waiting, this is the most obnoxious app. I really hope that no one downloads and reads this review and realizes that. it’s really bad. I’m very sorry to whoever made this app you tried trying you fail. OK just help right now within 24 hours and figure out how to report apps and I’m gonna report it for a scam if somebody I mean right now because it is scamming me, six years ago it worked well but right now it’s not working. I looked back at the reviews and it worked six years ago but it’s not working now. I’ve spent like three hours trying to figure out how to fix it so I literally just need somebody to help me right now not later right now. I need help and I’ve been working on it forever. It’s been working, just been trying to work on it so somebody help right now 24 hours please within 24 hours I need to response. I have posted three of these reviews so within those reviews hopefully somebody responds within 24 hours if you if you are reading this and are helping me, thank you so much OK bye.
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Free Trial?

What’s with the two weeks free trial of Premium +? Once you click on it it says that if you use it or even download it then you have to pay £80 odd quid for the year???! That is NOT a free trial of the upgrade. I reckon negative reviews about parenting must be written by aggrieved teenagers. Kids should not be spending the amount of time online that they do. They are living virtual instead of real lives and this helps to bring them back into the family!!

Edit:
A couple of years later and still subscribed however suddenly they have taken half the options off that I used to get. It’s one thing offering them for extra but if someone is paying on subscription you can’t suddenly remove stuff !!!
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Cancelling

We’ve used this for a few years and at first it worked well enough. Now it’s a waste of money. The schedules don’t work. Every day my son would say “can you turn my apps back on” and I’m like what? They should be back on at 10AM? So then I gave up on the schedules and just turned off apps manually every time we needed to. We haven’t used it for a while because he’s gotten older, just have it in case he gets in trouble or on restriction and we need to turn his apps off. I realized he has snap chat and TikTok now because he has emails from them, yet those apps aren’t even listed on his apps on OurPact? OurPact should have notified me when he downloaded these apps. Didn’t. So we took his phone, deleted his account and just re synced it, thinking maybe we just needed to start over. All of his apps are listed now. So that’s great. But they should have always been listed. That was two days ago. I’m looking at OurPact again today, and for some reason there’s no TikTok! So I have to go in manually and shut off his apps, which I shouldn’t have to do anyways if the schedules would work correctly, and I can’t even shut off TikTok. So he could be up on tik tok all night. I’m done with paying monthly for an app that doesn’t work correctly and I am canceling and switching to a different one.
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Response from developer

We are sorry to hear of a negative OurPact experience, Clarissa. From our experience, apps changing status on their own and conflicting management settings are usually traits of account tampering. Does your child have access to your account? Please reach out to our Support Team at support@ourpact.com, and we'll be happy to help you with a few recommendations to prevent tampering :)

Could be great

Although this app takes a little effort to set up, once it’s there, I like it with the exception of a few things. It monitors screen time well (unlike the built in Apple parental controls which don’t work half the time) and shuts off access after time limit is reached. I like that you can control each app independently and have your child ask before downloading new apps (although this can be glitchy and sometimes the request won’t come through). I do not like that kids have to pause their time to keep it from running out while they aren’t using their phones. This leads to issues when they inevitably forget to pause or they are in an area with poor signal and can’t pause. Also, I don’t like that it won’t let them rearrange their apps on their home screens. I’m not understanding how this is a safety feature and is a huge annoyance for my ocd kid who wants her apps in a certain order. When she locks her apps where she wants them, they automatically reset to a random order the next day. OurPact!!! Take away the necessity to pause the time, the inability to arrange apps on the home screen, and improve app request notifications and you’ll have yourself a good product.
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Response from developer

Thank you for sharing this review with our team, JamieLynn. We're glad to hear OurPact is serving your family well! If your child forgets to pause their screen time often, you can increase the time it takes for your child's device to sleep/lock by going to your child's device Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock. We've also documented how Widgets interact with our App Organizer feature and hope to include support for it in a future release. If you have questions about your account, let us know at support@ourpact.com. :)

sick.

I’m not a parent, so you probably would be thinking that I’m just a dramatic child or teenager taking to the internet to complain. But this app has genuinely ruined my social life.
I agree with having down times or maybe time limits but maybe have it so that they select the child’s age and you have an appropriate range of times you can pick as the down time.
What I mean is that I’m a teenager in high school yet my down time is 8pm. Which is absolutely ridiculous.
I’m losing so many of my friends, wanna know why? Because I’m being bullied at school for having to explain “no sorry I’m not allowed ____” or “sorry I can’t call with you because my down time is 8pm”.
I really wonder why in your right mind would you decide this app was a good idea? Did you not think about how unhealthily parents would use this app to manipulate their kids?
Once again, I agree with children having down times and not spending 20 hours a day on their phone.
But something like a 2 hour phone limit for a teenager or 30 minutes on an app or something or restricted messages is stupid.
Parents are not always going to be responsible with your app, there are many parents who will manipulate it to gain control over their kids causing more harm than good. Please rethink your morals, I understand this app is supposed to be a good thing but its really not.
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