Masterclass
Parental controls · Free · Android

Two apps, one peace of mind.

Prime Kids is a parental-control system built as two separate apps: Prime Kids: Parent Helper on the parent's phone, and Prime Kids Child on the child's device. Together they give parents real, age-appropriate oversight — screen-time limits, app management, content filtering, location, and alerts — without surveillance theatre.

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Coming soon to the Google Play Store. Pending review — you're looking at the official product page that Play Store reviewers see.

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Prime Kids
by Masterclass
Two apps, two roles

One app for parents. One app for children.

We deliberately split Prime Kids into two distinct apps because the device that does the monitoring and the device that holds the control panel need very different permissions, very different UIs, and very different security postures. Each app has its own listing on the Google Play Store.

For parents

Prime Kids: Parent Helper

React Native · Android & iOS · the dashboard

Lives on the parent's phone. This is the control panel — where you see what your child is doing, set the rules, and receive alerts.

  • Screen time dashboard (daily / weekly / monthly)
  • Live location map and history trail
  • Rule management: limits, schedules, app blocklist, web filter
  • Alerts: limits hit, blocked content, geofence events, new apps installed
  • App-approval flow: child requests, parent decides
  • Device controls: remote lock, locate, sync, pair / unpair
Package: com.parenthelper.parent
For children

Prime Kids Child

Native Kotlin · Android only · the agent

Installed on the child's Android device. Runs as a persistent background service to enforce the rules set by the parent. iOS version is deferred until we have native Screen Time API access.

  • Screen-time tracking & per-app limits (UsageStatsManager)
  • App blocking (DevicePolicyManager) & new-install notifications
  • Web content filtering via local VPN (no traffic leaves the device unencrypted)
  • Location reporting (Fused Location Provider) & geofence events
  • Anti-bypass: Device Admin, boot-restart, VPN-bypass detection
  • Paired to the parent device via a one-time code — no contacts uploaded
Package: com.parenthelper.child
How it works

Five minutes to set up.

  1. 1 Parent installs Prime Kids: Parent Helper. Create an account with email and password. From Settings » Children, add a child profile and generate a one-time pairing code.
  2. 2 Install Prime Kids Child on the child's Android device. Type the pairing code in the welcome screen. The two apps connect through our backend — no contacts scanned, no phone numbers shared.
  3. 3 Grant the child app the permissions it needs. The app walks you through each one (usage access, device admin, VPN, location) and explains in plain language why each is required. You can skip permissions and the corresponding feature is simply disabled.
  4. 4 Set the rules from the parent app. Daily screen-time budget, schedule (e.g., no phone 8am–3pm), app blocklist, web-filter categories. Changes push to the child device in real time.
  5. 5 You're in. The parent app's home screen shows live screen-time usage, location, and any alerts. The child app runs quietly in the background.
Why we made this

The story behind Prime Kids.

Prime Kids started life as a classroom project called Parent Helper. We needed an app that would teach our 2024 cohort the hardest parts of mobile engineering — native Android services, screen-time tracking, app blocking, real-time WebSocket sync, push-notification lifecycles, geolocation, multi-role auth, anti-bypass protection — all on one connected codebase.

By the end of the cohort the apps worked well enough that parents outside the program started asking if they could keep using them. We took the student code, hardened the security, wrote a real privacy policy that accurately describes the (substantial) data the child app collects, and pushed both apps through Play Store review the same way a startup would.

That whole process is now a permanent part of how we teach. Every future cohort goes through it. Prime Kids is the artifact — and we're proud of it — but the real product is the way our students now think about shipping software.

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Built to be a good citizen

  • Free to use. No ads. No in-app purchases.
  • We never sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
  • The child app shows itself on the child's device — we don't believe in hidden surveillance ware.
  • Account deletion is a single tap and removes everything within 30 days.
  • Source code reviewed by mentoring engineers before each release.
Install

Get Prime Kids on Android.

Prime Kids is currently in Play Store review. Once approved, the install buttons below will go live. Each app has its own Play Store listing — install the right one on the right device.

Parent Helper
for the parent
Request tester access
Prime Kids Child
for the child's device
Request tester access
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For Play Store reviewers

Everything you need in one place.

If you're evaluating Prime Kids for Google Play, here are the mandatory links and contact details for our submissions. Both apps share the same developer account, privacy policy, and support flow.

Children's-app considerations: the Child App is intended to be installed by a parent on a child's device. We do not market the app to children directly — child accounts are created only through the parent's pairing flow. Our handling of children's personal information, consistent with the spirit of COPPA and Play Store Families policy, is in section 7 of the privacy policy.