# Kairoo: Calmer Screen time — Parental controls, both signed

> Parental controls, both signed (iPhone/iPad app by Kairos os ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kairoo-calmer-screen-time/id6787772343 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kairos os ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/6787772345)
- Category: Lifestyle, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 65 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-15
- Data updated: 2026-11-05

## What is Kairoo?

Screen time rules you and your child agree together, sign together, and Kairoo keeps. On their phone, the same way every night, so you are not the one saying no.

WHAT KAIROO DOES
- The deal: daily allowances, school-night and weekend routines, when screens stop, and which apps count. Written together at the kitchen table in about ten minutes. Both of you sign it.
- The heads-up: ten minutes before screens rest, their phone tells them. Calls and emergency numbers always work.
- "Five more minutes?": they ask Kairoo, not you, with a reason. Everyday asks are answered from the deal you both signed, their day so far and their track record, and they are told why. Anything bigger comes to you.
- Jobs before screens: make the family jobs you agree the first thing, so homework, a packed bag or a tidy room come before the phone unlocks.
- Extra jobs earn coins you set. Children can propose jobs of their own. Coins unlock badges and ways to make Kairoo their own, or become pocket money if you agree.
- The saved-time jar: minutes they stop early go in the jar, within the limits you agreed, so stopping on their own becomes a habit.
- Family focus time: either of you can call it, and both phones rest so you have the time together.
- "I'm bored": Talk to Kairoo suggests something to do away from the screen.
- See it working: which nights were kept, which asks were answered, how the time divides between watching, playing and connecting. Never messages, never location.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Install Kairoo Parents and write the deal together. The app asks the same questions you would ask each other.
2. You both sign. Nothing starts until both names are on it.
3. Read the six-letter code to your child. They install Kairoo on their phone, type it in, read the deal and sign their side.
4. Tonight it holds. The heads-up, then screens rest. Asks are answered from the deal. Only the big calls come to you.

WHAT KAIROO NEVER DOES
- Never reads messages, never sees photos, never tracks location, never looks inside apps. It sees which apps are used, for how long, and when screens rest.
- Never changes the deal on its own. You decide, and your child sees exactly what changed.

WHO IT IS FOR
Parents of children aged about 8 to 14 with a phone of their own, who want the rules kept without a nightly argument.

TWO APPS, ONE DEAL
Kairoo Parents on your phone; Kairoo for your child on theirs. Pairing takes a minute. On iPhone, Kairoo uses Apple's Screen Time to keep the deal, with your child's permission given during set-up.

Free in early access. Built in the UK with Nesta, the UK's innovation agency for social good. Questions or ideas: hello@kairoo.co.uk

## Is Kairoo safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Kairoo.

## Is Kairoo legit?

Kairoo: Calmer Screen time has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kairoo is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6 — 2026-10-31

A fresh new look for Kairoo Parents.

• Now: one ring for today, with what Kairoo handled for you and anything that needs you.
• Your child's day: how they used their time first (today, by kind, top apps and the last 7 days), then first things and jobs.
• Deal: every rule in one place, with special days and holidays side by side.
• Jobs: see the history of every coin earned and spent.
• Pause now rests every app until you unlock. Calls and texts still work.
• Family time rests everything except calls, texts, maps and always-open apps.
• Show me around: a guided tour of the main features, with a chance to try each one.
• Simpler set-up and sign-in, and lots of small fixes.

### 1.5 — 2026-10-21

When your child steps out of family focus time early on their phone, focus time now ends on yours too, and Home shows you their reason.

### 1.4 — 2026-10-15

A guided set-up you do together. Sit down with your child, talk it through, then agree why, when and how much, with a question to ask them at each step. You both sign, then switch it on. Screen-free places, ideas for after screens and the jar are part of it again, and Kairoo asks your child's date of birth so it knows their age as they grow.

Kairoo now shows you more as you go. In the first days, one tip at a time: how the evenings went, jobs and pocket money, and special days like a later Friday. A few days before school holidays in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, a reminder about Holiday mode. Each tip opens a short tour, and they're all on the Family tab, under Get more from Kairoo.

The sign-up code now comes once, not twice.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-10

Choose family jobs, done for thanks, and extra jobs that earn coins: you set how many coins, and can ask for a photo. Coins can become pocket money if you switch it on, paid your usual way. Coins never buy screen time.

Setting up is one thing per page, from who the deal is with to the deal you both sign. Pairing your child's phone is a six-letter code and a QR.

Your child picks their look: Bold or Roo. Family focus time is always there for them to suggest, and you always choose. Home is simpler, with the week on Insights. The tour has a Try it on each stop, and the app has a new icon.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-01

Know at a glance that your deal is working, and hear straight away when it isn't.
• Home shows what's happening on your child's phone right now, and says plainly when it hasn't checked in or Kairoo isn't holding the limit yet, so you're never left thinking it works when it doesn't.
• Our Deal, rebuilt: who signed and when, when screens rest each night, then every rule as a row showing how it's set. Tap one to change it.
• Bedtimes and mornings, the saved-time jar, and holidays and special days each have their own page. A night like Friday can have its own times.
• Choosing what counts is now four numbered steps on your child's phone.
• Notifications, your parent PIN, the widget and family focus time, together in the Family tab.
• The set-up guide and walkthrough videos are one tap away, and the playbook links to new guides on kairoo.family: the UK's under-16 social media ban, phones in schools, and what to say at "five more minutes".

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