Paxio

Most parents don't want to spy on their kids — they want a workable way to set boundaries without turning into the enforcer of a rule nobody follows. Pew Research found that 86% of parents of kids 12 and under have screen-time rules in place, but only about one in five stick to those rules consistently. That gap — between the rule you set and the rule that actually holds — is the problem Paxio is built around.

Paxio is a parental control app for Android that handles the four things that matter most day to day: a daily screen time limit, blocking specific apps, filtering website categories, and a bedtime lock that actually runs on schedule. Everything is visible to the child using the device, not hidden — it's designed as a household agreement enforced automatically, not a secret monitoring tool. Paxio doesn't read texts, log calls, or track location, and never has to in order to do any of the above.

Setup takes a few minutes, with each Android permission explained in plain language before it's requested. See how it all fits together on Paxio's product page, or grab it free for one child on the Play Store.