About this app

Keep kids safe and focused with the most comprehensive and easy to use parental control app for devices in home and on the go.

Circle Parental Controls App gives parents screen time control whether kids are playing their favorite online game, connecting with friends or doing schoolwork. Circle goes beyond setting Screen Time Limits and Filters with additional parental control features like Pause, History, Rewards and Bedtime. Parents can customize screen time and WiFi control based on their kids’ ages and their own family preferences, and even limit or block social media.

SCREEN TIME PARENTAL CONTROL APP
• Filter: Choose appropriate (or block inappropriate) content by age with web filters. Even block social media.
• Time Limits: Set daily screen time limits for popular apps and sites.
• Pause the Internet®: Make the Internet stop for every family member (or just one).

MONITOR AND KEEP TRACK OF ONLINE TIME
• History: Check out sites kids visited (or tried to visit) throughout the day. Or go back as far as you’d like for screen monitoring and phone monitoring.
• Usage: Get a complete picture of your family’s Internet use, across all devices
• Location: Keep track of your kids through their mobile devices. Monitor kids’ phones to keep them safe.

BALANCE TIME ONLINE AND OFFLINE
• Bedtime: Ensure your kids get the sleep they need. Set a bedtime for connected devices.
• Rewards: Celebrate good behavior by giving a little extra online time just for the day.
• Focus Time: Schedule distraction-free Internet time for school, homework or offline time.

Start managing your family’s online screen time today with a free trial to access all the parental control app features like WiFi blocker, app blocker and other premium parental control app and screen time control features. Circle’s WiFi manager, Internet and website blocker, and mobile device management make for the most robust screen time parental control app available.

Kids can use the Circle parental control app to keep track of their own screen time online with a personalized dashboard.

THE ULTIMATE PARENTAL CONTROL APP
Over 90% of Circle parental control app users say it helps keep their kids safe online and makes it easier to manage screen time in their family. Read more below to find out why!

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Circle’s parental control features use a local VPN installed on a child's device to apply Circle features like content blocking and time limits to individual apps and categories of apps.

Circle Home Plus — sold separately

Need an in-home device to manage online screen time on smart TVs, video game consoles, and computers? Manage all Wi-Fi connected devices in your home with the Circle Home Plus parental control device - universal parental control at home and away! Learn more: meetcircle.com

The Circle Parental Controls App is not for use with Circle with Disney or Circle on Netgear routers.

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Need Help?

If you have any parental control app questions, need help with the Circle parental control app, or want to provide feedback, please contact our Support Team:

help@meetcircle.com
support.meetcircle.com

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Subscription Terms

A Circle Parental Controls App subscription is required and gives your family access to every parental control feature.

Circle Subscription comes with a FREE trial period (for new premium members only.)

The Circle subscription is an automatic renewing subscription. Your subscription will be charged to your Google Play account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew unless auto-renewal is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions are billed at the start of each period and cannot be refunded. Subscribers can manage subscriptions and disable auto-renewal by visiting their Google Play Account Settings after purchase.

Privacy policy: https://meetcircle.com/legal/privacy/
Terms of use: https://meetcircle.com/license/

New features

This release includes some minor bug fixes. If you have questions, please visit support.meetcircle.com.

App Permissions

Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to manage access to documents, usually as part of a document picker.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS.
Allows an application to read from external storage.