Parental Control App Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience38.1% of reviews
Neutral8.9% of reviews
Negative experience53.0% of reviews

~ Based on 1,150 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Parental Control App

Is Parental Control App Safe?

Parental Control App - OurPact appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Parental Control App is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 36,730 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

86.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 36,727 App Store ratings for Parental Control App.

Is Parental Control App Legit?

Parental Control App - OurPact appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Parental Control App is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Kids Can Work Around Time Restrictions

It was great at first but kids can use GPT to easily work around the time restrictions by changing the time on their phone in settings. OurPact provides no way to address this.

Negative

Signed up for the free trial and tried to pair it with my son’s phone. Unfortunately, the app crashed his phone, leaving it unusable, and we now have to buy him a new phone.

Contacts

It messed up my kids contacts and deleted all of them

Rubbish

I’ve paid for a subscription and it won’t even track my child!!!

추천 절대로 안함

나도 처음엔 뭐 기대하고 깔았음. 하지만 깔고 재부팅을 멋대로 하더니 켜보니까 뭔 배경이랑 iOS랑 소프트웨어 싹다 바뀌고 기능 없어지고 ㅂㅅ같고 앱 삭제 권한은 진짜 뭐냐? 정신 차려라 애들이 ㅂㅅ이여서 당하는거 아니다 그냥 설정 들어가서 관리 기기 삭제 나르면 되는거를 억지로 참고있는데 돈은 돈대로 다 받아쳐먹으면서 효과는 ㅈ도 없고 진짜 이거 쓸바엔 alli 360 추천함

Response from developer

안녕하세요! 불편을 드려 죄송합니다. 이러한 문제는 iCloud 백업이 자동으로 설정되어 있을 때 설치가 완료되지 않아 발생하는 문제입니다. support@ourpact.com으로 이메일을 보내주시면 도와드리겠습니다.

Terrible.

My child refuses to talk to me.

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It’s only useful if you pay for the subscription and the deletion is annoying

Do NOT waste your money!

This app did not work right from day 1. It was the biggest waste of money. To get it on your kids phone and yours is ridiculous. You finally install it and it doesn’t work! One year later, it still has my son’s phone locked up and I cannot get it off. Worst puchase of my life.

Waste of time

This is there the most useless app I have ever downloaded, worked for a month, I liked it and upgraded, took my money but doesn’t work anymore as soon as I upgraded to premium, waste of money and time. The schedule and blocking doesn’t work my teenager’s phone is always unblocked even with the schedule activated. Again very useless app, don’t waste your time.
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Garbage App

I purchased the Premium version because I needed a reliable way to manage my sister’s screen time, but unfortunately the app didn’t work as advertised.

I set a bedtime schedule so certain apps would disappear at night and reappear in the morning. Instead, the apps stayed available at bedtime and didn’t come back when they were supposed to. I had to manually hide and restore the apps myself every single time, which completely defeated the purpose of paying for this app.

On top of that, I also ran into issues where apps couldn’t be deleted because of the restrictions, and it took a lot of troubleshooting to remove everything.

Overall, it was a frustrating experience. I paid for Premium expecting the scheduling features to work automatically, but they were unreliable and ended up creating more work instead of saving time.
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GOOD app

ever sense i got this app my child kept getting into hobbies! like they bring a rope into there room! the creeking on the celling is a little annoying tho....

Warning!

It’s a very basic unsophisticated app. But after you download the profile it deletes your child’s wallpaper and rearranges all the apps. Mine spent a lot of time in those things and was devastated to have to redo everything.

Don’t download it.

This up is terrible app. Always ask to pay for it but do not allow to use the app and it doesn’t work at all.

I HATE THIS

My brother got this whole app to block something’s because I stood up to 1am TWO times😭😭

Dear, Parents…

This app isn’t allowing my child to call when an emergency has occurred. This app has various glitches too that prevent my child from playing games and watching videos. I do not like this app and I do not recommend it for anyone. I would like for this app to get deleted and sued.

Effective if your child doesn't try to bypass it

Within one hour of installing this app on his phone my son deleted the MDM profile, rendered this app useless. That was a few months ago. I contact the support, and was told that they were working on it and gave me three months of subscription for free. Now three months passed, I am starting being charged, this issue is still not solved. I cancelled the subscription. Without the MDM profile it does nothing more than an icon on the screen.
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Good potential

Good potential and tighter control than Apple’s useless Family features. However some basic things aren’t working. Ie apps that should be allowed during my son’s school schedule are not - which means I need to allow all apps which completely defeats the purpose of

Poor install process

The app requires you to connect the child’s phone to a computer. No problem with that. But afterwards several apps were deleted (not inaccessible, deleted), wallpapers changed, etc.

That either should not happen, or should be made explicit in the instructions.

It was not clear how to use the child’s app after that (requires pushing a start/stop button even to access allowed apps and sites). It was much too intrusive.
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App is pretty terrible.

App doesn’t work easily. WAYYY too many bugs. Way too complicated. Glitches everywhere. My son deleted the app on his end. Nothing works easily or clearly. Complete waste of money unless you’re willing to invest a huge amount of time monitoring and figuring out this app. I need to find another parental control blocker for my son’s iPad.
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Good but could improve

Good app, and probably the only one that works well. But many times the schedule does not work and when you see the phone is open. They need to improve it, it’s been years with same issue.