Parental Control vs RestBud

See what matters. Not everything. Nutcracker turns your child's YouTube and gaming activity into a clear weekly summary, written by AI and read in a minute. Not endless logs. Not secret surveillance. Just an honest answer to the question every parent has: is my kid okay? WHAT NUTCRACKER DOES - AI activity summaries. Your child's YouTube watch history and Steam gaming sessions, distilled into themes, shifts, and anything worth a second look. A week of activity in one short read. - Ask about your child. Chat with an AI that knows your child's activity and answers in plain language. "Has anything changed this week?" "What's she been watching lately?" - Social visibility. Follow the accounts you and your child agree to connect, and see activity summarized instead of scrolled. - SOS button. Your child taps once. You get an immediate alert with their location. Set different emergency contacts for each child. - AI Friend. A safe, age-filtered AI companion on your child's phone. You purchase it from the parent app, you set the filters, and you can see the conversations. Your child can request it. Only you can approve. - Every child, separately. Each child gets their own profile, connected accounts, SOS contacts, and reports. - Battery check. Know when their phone is about to die before they do. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install Nutcracker and add your child's profile 2. Your child installs the companion app and enters your pairing code 3. Together, connect YouTube, Steam, and any social accounts you both agree on 4. Reports start arriving. Read a week in a minute. CONSENT-FIRST, BY DESIGN Nutcracker cannot be installed secretly. Your child sees the app, knows what's connected, and knows what's shared. We built it this way on purpose. Monitoring your child knows about starts conversations. Monitoring they discover ends them. INSIGHT FIRST, LIMITS WHEN YOU NEED THEM Nutcracker starts with understanding, not restriction. When a limit is called for, set a daily limit on a group of apps or pause apps on your child's phone from your own, and your child sees the limit on their screen. Nothing is hidden. What no lockdown tool tells you is what your child actually watched, played, and cared about this week, and whether any of it should concern you. That's the part we built. BUILT FOR REAL FAMILIES Whether you're raising a curious 8-year-old or a phone-glued teen, the questions are the same: what are they into, has anything changed, are they alright. Nutcracker answers those without reading every message over their shoulder. PRIVACY Your family's data is encrypted and never sold. We don't share activity, location, or personal information with third parties. Consent can be withdrawn at any time, and disconnecting an account removes its data. SUBSCRIPTION Nutcracker is an auto-renewing subscription, available weekly or annually. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. AI Friend is a separate in-app purchase, available only from the parent app. Privacy Policy: https://www.meetnutcracker.com/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://www.meetnutcracker.com/terms-conditions

A schedule-style screen-time manager for parents, installed on your child's iPhone or iPad. Built-in Screen Time is a blunt tool. RestBud adds seven things it can't do: • Lock schedules — apps you add to a Lock are blocked all day by default; check weekdays and set one or more unlock windows (say, 7:00–12:00 plus 14:00–16:00 on Mon/Wed/Fri) and they open and close automatically. • Rest cycles — apps you add to a Rest must take a break (say, 5 minutes) after the play time you set (say, 30 minutes), then unlock automatically, on repeat. • Daily limits — put several apps on one list and give them a shared daily total (say, 1 hour across three games); once it's used up they all lock until tomorrow, and the parent screen shows roughly how much has been used today. • Website allow list — turn it on and only the sites you list open (say, YouTube and school sites); everything else is blocked, and your child can see the allowed sites on the home screen. • Ask for more time — when an app is locked, your child can tap "Ask for 10 more minutes"; approve it on the RestBud home screen and only that app opens for 10 minutes, then locks again. No arguing, no waiting around. • Device protections — one switch each for built-in iPhone restrictions: no deleting or installing apps, no in-app purchases, date and time locked to automatic, adult websites blocked. No more digging through Settings. • Your family's voice — when time is up, your child hears a recording of you, not a cold alarm. The blocked screen is a gentle sprout illustration that even tells your child what time they can play again — not a scary blocking page. • Set it once and it runs itself: rules are enforced by the system scheduler, even if the app is closed • A parental gate protects all settings • Deletion protection: turn it on and your child can't delete RestBud • Completely free, no account, no ads, no data collection — everything stays on this device; a voluntary tip jar lives behind the parental gate RestBud is built on Apple's official Screen Time technology.