Affordable parental controls across Android phone, tablet & TV.100K+ downloadsLocks, schedules, breaks & PIN

Healthy screen habits, without the daily battles.

Set clear limits, schedules, breaks, and app rules across the Android devices your family already uses. tvusage handles the reminders, so you can spend less time negotiating.

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Phone · Tablet · TV

One calm set of rules across

Android phone
Android tablet
Android & Google TV

Three small steps

From install to household rhythm

Set the boundary once, then let tvusage handle the reminders and follow-through.

1
Connect the child's device
Install tvusage, grant the explained permissions, and choose a secure parent PIN.
2
Set the family rules
Add limits, usage hours, app groups, watch breaks, and always-available apps.
3
Check in, not over
Use daily and weekly insights to talk about patterns without watching every moment.

Built for real family life

Boundaries they can see. Controls you can trust.

Enough structure to prevent negotiations, with flexibility for the apps that matter.

Limits & schedules

Decide when screens fit the day.

Set screen-time and usage hours per app or device, group apps together, and keep homework or learning apps available.

Explore all controls

tvusage controls showing usage hours and time limits

Watch breaks

Build pauses into long sessions.

Give eyes and attention a reset without turning off the whole day.

tvusage watch break prompt displayed on a TV

PIN protection

Keep the rules in the grown-ups' hands.

Lock apps or the whole device and protect against uninstall workarounds.

tvusage PIN app lock screen on a television

Meet the Behavior Monsters

Apps are designed to keep the next thing coming.

tvusage adds the stopping cues that streaming, games, and social feeds often leave out.

Autoplay

Binge Blob

One more episode keeps becoming another.

Reward loops

Level Goblin

Streaks and upgrades make stopping feel costly.

Infinite feeds

Scroll Gremlin

Fresh clips and alerts remove the natural ending.

Your screen-time year

What could your screen time give back?

Choose one person’s combined daily TV, phone, and tablet time.

Daily combined screen time

hours / day

Adjust daily combined screen time

Adjust in 30-minute steps.

At that pace, screens occupy about 61 full days each year.

If those 1,460 hours were reclaimed, they could make room for:

243books
183day trips
730family activities

Illustrative estimates: 6 hours per book, 8 hours per day trip, and 2 hours per family activity.

Small limits can make room for a lot of life.

Build your family’s plan

Real words from parents

Parent notes from Google Play.

Selected reviews from the Google Play listing. Names, dates, ratings, and wording are shown as published.

Great app, perfect for helping control screen time on our TV's, it's companion app on our phones help us remotely grant more time when we are away and we can monitor the device time usage and what apps are being used.

Amazing App for children. My kid screentime if TV is completely reduced because of this. Must to have if you want to control kids screentime

People who give this app one star reviews probably have trouble setting it up. This app works perfectly fine, it is an effective way to block some apps and time-limit others, and/or time-limit the entire device (shield tv in my case). Excellent for when you have kids.

Perfect l, does exactly as promised. Perfect to remotely unlock apps kids are trying to access. I don't have to be home to unlock. Highly recommended for monitoring / locking apps. Great support too from staff to help understand how it all works.

I'm happy with the app for the last two years. I have had run into a small issue and contacted the developers by mail and the issue got rectified immediately with new update issued on the same night.

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