Screen time limits your child’s Android phone keeps for you
KidsDroid is a screen time app for Android that a parent installs on their child’s phone. You pick the apps to limit and how long your child can play. When time is up, the app takes a break, and your child can wait it out or earn extra time with a quick quiz or a camera-counted exercise.
Key facts
- Works on
- Android 8.0 and newer
- Price
- Free, no ads, no in-app purchases
- Account
- None needed
- Starting limits
- 10 min play, then a 15 min break, per app; 90 min a day for all limited apps (you can change all of them)
- Extra time
- Up to 3 challenges a day, +10 minutes each
- Ages
- 2–4, 4–6, 7–9, 10–12 and 13+
- Parent lock
- 4-digit PIN, optional fingerprint, reset by email
- Your child’s data
- Stays on the phone
What does KidsDroid do?
Play, then a break
Each limited app gets its own play time and break. A heads-up comes 2 minutes before a break, and a small floating timer shows what’s left.
Daily limits and quiet times
Set a daily limit for each app and for all of them together, plus bedtime, school and homework times when apps stay closed.
Earn time back
During a break your child can answer a brain quiz, spell words, or do jumping jacks or squats that the camera counts, for 10 more minutes.
Stars and streaks
Stars for waiting out a break, for each challenge, and for every good day. A streak grows on days you didn’t need to step in.
Who is KidsDroid for?
Parents and guardians who give their child an Android phone and want limits the phone keeps by itself, without arguments at the end of every video. It’s set up on the child’s phone, for your own child. It isn’t for watching anyone else.
What doesn’t KidsDroid do?
- It doesn’t work on iPhones or iPads.
- It can’t be controlled from the parent’s phone yet. You change settings on your child’s phone, with your PIN.
- It limits whole apps. It doesn’t filter websites or what’s shown inside an app.
- It doesn’t read messages, track location or record the screen.
- It can’t stop someone removing it with safe mode or a computer.
- It’s in English only.
Is my child’s data private?
Yes. There are no accounts and no ads, and what KidsDroid knows about your child stays on the phone. How KidsDroid keeps data on the phone.