Before ScreenCoach was created, the inventor and co-founder purchased the leading solutions on the market. He found that they all had shortcomings making none of them suitable/useful his families needs or the needs of other families, after interviewing dozens of families.
There are many additional features which set ScreenCoach apart from anything that is currently on the market, with more planned in the months and years ahead.
These are summarized below:
The capability to track a child’s screen time across almost all popular devices including iOS, Android, Mac, PC - even when the device is offline! This solves many parent’s dilemmas associated with the device “merry-go-round.” This occurs when time is up on one device and the child simply switches to another one.
The incentive for children to earn more screen time using advanced task management with approval workflows, whereby time earned (tokens) can be saved for future redemption. Even set up recurring tasks and reminders
Shared devices: ScreenCoach tracks and manages individual screen time on shared devices, whereas other solutions assume that each device is exclusively used by just one child.
ScreenCoach works online & offline.
Simple router-based solutions that block the Internet just result in today’s technology-savvy children finding workarounds, such as using their cell phone connection in lieu of Wi-Fi, playing games offline or watching previously downloaded content.ScreenCoach works with any Internet connection.
Some solutions use VPNs which cause other issues including your apps thinking that they are not in your own country!Children are empowered they can fully/semi self manage
in Auto pilot mode - some children who earn the parent’s trust can self-manage the activities you want to allow,
whereas other children in the same family may continue to require parental approval before they receive their tokens and gems for completing desirable activities.A comprehensive pocket money management system is built directly into the ScreenCoach app. It shows a history of all expenses and deposits, including recurring expenses and deposits! Kids can enter their own expenses
Behavior change features. Our smart rewards feature awards bonuses to reinforce/encourage new and desirable behaviors, such as performing a chore without being asked! This encourages responsibility, self-reliance, and leadership early-on.
Context-sensitive rule creation (modes) is a unique feature of ScreenCoach. For example, a child can continue to use applications Microsoft Word/ Excel but will not have access to gaming apps while they are doing their homework. You can even have some modes like homework mode that won't consume any of the kids screen time!
Gamified fun approach to managing the rewards kids can earn tokens and gems so it is engaging like a game
Delayed gratification, ScreenCoach teaches children how to save their Screen Time Tokens for future use and to save their Gems to cash in for pocket money
The flexibility and dynamic nature of ScreenCoach allows for us to support individual parenting philosophies. No other platform offers such an unprecedented degree of customization and configurability on a child-by-child basis.
Manage TVs & connected devices (optional extra: requires purchase of hardware)
This beta solution allows you to manage PlayStation and Xbox or streaming service devices on supported TVs. Time spent on the TV accumulates towards the Child use across all other devices managed by Screencoach
Note: Some other solutions have some limited features we have, but no single other solution even have a few of these features above.
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