WatchSafe vs Kept

Take control of what your kids watch on YouTube. Only approved videos. No algorithm surprises. Subscription required for full access. WatchSafe gives parents approval-first control over their child’s YouTube viewing. Instead of open browsing or unpredictable recommendations, children can only watch videos, channels, or playlists that a parent has explicitly approved. No algorithms. No wandering. Just clear boundaries and predictable viewing. --- HOW WATCHSAFE WORKS Parents choose what’s allowed. Kids can only watch from that approved list. WatchSafe uses a patent-pending, approval-first approach that works with YouTube’s official player—adding structure and real parental control around viewing. --- KEY FEATURES • Approval-First Control Approve channels, videos, or playlists before your child can watch. Preview content first so there are no surprises. • Time Management Set daily limits, schedules, and school-time or overnight viewing blocks. • Short-Form Video Controls Choose whether short-form content like Shorts is available for your child. • Monitoring & Reports View watch history, receive alerts, and review daily or weekly usage summaries. • Multiple Child Profiles Create individual child profiles with their own rules, schedules, and approved content. • Learning-Friendly Options Track educational viewing and support learning-focused goals. • Family Safety Designed with child privacy in mind, including PIN protection and secure access controls. --- SUBSCRIPTIONS WatchSafe requires a subscription to unlock full functionality. Plans are available with monthly and annual billing options. Pricing is clearly shown in the app before purchase. No free trial is currently offered. • Control Includes core parental control features for up to [X] children, with individual profiles and settings for each child. • Control+ Includes everything in Control, with support for additional children, advanced insights, and faster setup tools. Subscription options and child limits are clearly shown in the app before purchase. --- BILLING & SUBSCRIPTIONS Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your Apple ID account settings. Pricing and billing periods are shown in the app before purchase. --- REFUND POLICY WatchSafe does not offer a free trial. We offer a 7-day money-back guarantee on new subscriptions so you can make sure it’s right for your family. --- IMPORTANT INFORMATION WatchSafe works with YouTube’s official player and does not block or modify advertisements shown by YouTube. Pairing with YouTube Premium may reduce ads. WatchSafe is designed to help parents guide—not replace—their child’s online viewing experience. --- YOUTUBE INTEGRATION WatchSafe connects securely to YouTube’s public API (via OAuth) to let parents search, preview, and approve channels, playlists, and videos. We strictly adhere to YouTube’s Terms of Service—no algorithms, just parent control. YouTube Premium support may reduce ads. Terms of Service: https://watchsafe.app/legal/eula

When your records come due, they're already waiting for you. Kept works in reverse. You jot down each day right after it happens — child, subject, minutes, an optional photo, about ten seconds — and Kept quietly assembles it into the reports you need at year's end. No scramble in June, no piecing a whole year back together from memory. There is no lesson plan to build before you're allowed to log anything, and no half-empty checklist hanging over your Friday. If your family loves a paper binder, keep it — it works. Kept is for the days when there's no page to cut out: a LEGO build, a baking-fractions lesson, a nature walk, the reading read aloud, and above all anything done on a screen. Snap a photo and it's dated, filed by subject, and waiting in your portfolio. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Log a day in seconds — or backfill an earlier day when you catch up on the weekend. - Attach a photo as evidence of the work, kept alongside the original (nothing gets cut up). - See your hours, days, and subject coverage at a glance. - Star the keepers so your year-end samples curate themselves. - Get an honest read on whether this year's hours and days are on pace to land by your year-end — and nothing at all where your jurisdiction sets no target. KNOW WHAT YOUR STATE ACTUALLY ASKS Pick your state or province and Kept shows you the notice and its deadline, the required subjects, the hours or days, whether testing applies, and what you must keep versus what you must file — each cited to the statute, with the date it was last verified. Thirty-three US states and all nine anglophone Canadian provinces have a full summary; every other US jurisdiction is pointed to its own law, sourced and dated. Kept never guesses — where it hasn't verified a rule, it says so. ONE-TAP REPORTS, BUILT FROM THE ACTUAL RULES - Attendance record and hours log. - Evaluator portfolio — cover page, per-subject work samples, reading-materials list. - New York quarterly report with editable quarter dates and IHIP subject rows. Each report carries what your state's law asks a record to contain. Kept fills in what your log knows and leaves grades, narratives, and test results as slots for you to complete — it never invents them. YOUR RECORDS STAY YOURS Kept is local-first: your logbook lives on your device, not on our servers. We can't lose it because we never hold it. Save a one-tap backup file to iCloud, Files, or anywhere you like, and restore it on a new phone. No account. No sign-in wall. Kept is a record-keeping aid, not legal advice. Homeschool requirements vary by state and change over time; always verify current law with your school district or evaluator. Kept Plus is an auto-renewable subscription: $4.99/month or $39/year (US), each starting with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://kepthomeschool.com/privacy — Terms of Use: https://kepthomeschool.com/terms