About this app
Boomerang establishes screen time and boundaries for your child’s Android device. It also helps you start conversations with your child about their device usage, good apps, bad apps, web browsing, video viewing and more. Check out our new video series with straight-forward take-aways that will help your family use tech in a healthy way: https://benchbanter.info/.
Features Parents Love (some kids too!)
► App Control: Per app daily timer, control and monitor the apps your kids install and use - approve or block newly installed from the Play Store and other sources. Start conversations about your child’s interest in certain apps and how they heard about them. Get notified if a “Vault App” was installed before it becomes a problem.
► Flexible Screen Time: Keep tabs on device usage, app usage, encouraging your child’s digital wellbeing - set daily device time limits and schedules. Review their usage with our detailed per app reporting.
► Screen Time Schedules: Set device downtime at bedtime - Put an end to games, social media and other distractions when kids should be charging up their batteries (oh and charge the devices outside of their room too).
► Per App Daily Limits: Once you have a device limit, continue to optimize your child's screen time by setting individual daily limits on individual apps that may be used too much inside the daily allocation (examples like social media apps or streaming apps).
► Location Safety: GPS tracking and location - locate your child devices remotely by installing Boomerang on your parent device in Parent Mode.
► Safer Videos: Boomerang provides reports on viewed videos and search history. Enable Restricted Mode in the YouTube app, then block access to this setting by reading our how-to here: https://goo.gl/Do8h9a.
► Educate: Encourage good apps and great screen time experiences - encourage the use of educational apps that do not count down screen time or set them to always allowed to work beyond all screen time limits.
► Safe Browsing: Monitor your child's web history with our free fully featured safe browser, SPIN, with enforced Google SafeSearch and millions of bad websites blocked (like pornography, nudity, drugs and gambling). Boomerang's app blocker technology blocks all known web browsers so your child will always have a safe browsing experience via SPIN.
How to get Started with your Family
1. Get started by downloading our app on your parent device and creating a new group with your preferred email address.
2. Install Boomerang on all other family devices.
3. Pair all other family devices with the same email and password. Your child devices will automatically start a fully functional 14-day trial.
4. When ready, purchase an annual license from your parent device via our Parent Mode.
Our Family Pack Annual license is affordable and covers up to 10 child devices.
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Boomerang Parental Control is best introduced when you get your child their first tablet or their first smartphone. If introducing it to a teen, for best results, get their buy-in as they already fully know how addictive their device is.
Discover our list of tips to help you parent the conversation: https://goo.gl/YhbWSM
Important Notes
This app uses the Device Administrator permission.
This app uses Accessibility services.
Boomerang Parental Control works great on Android 5.x and higher
Resources
Discover our Knowledge Base: https://community.useboomerang.com/hc/en-us
Support and Questions: support@useboomerang.com
Bench Banter - our YouTube channel on helping parents with technology: https://goo.gl/38rxnG
App Permissions
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
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.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to read the user's call log.
Allows an application to write (but not read] the user's call log data.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows applications to read the sync settings.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows an application to expand or collapse the status bar.
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.
Allows an application to install packages.
Allows an application to delete packages.
Allows an application to change whether an application component (other than its own] is enabled or not.
Allows an application to read or write the secure system settings.
Must be required by device administration receiver, to ensure that only the system can interact with it.
Allows applications to write the apn settings.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
