# My Time by NETGEAR

> Lifestyle

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481417599](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481417599)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1481417599`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** NETGEAR
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Rating:** 1.40 / 5 (116 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.30.1.594
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-05
- **First published:** 2020-07-31
- **Size:** 169 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-time-by-netgear/id1481417599)
- **Website:** [http://www.netgear.com/spc](http://www.netgear.com/spc)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.netgear.com/about/privacy-policy/](https://www.netgear.com/about/privacy-policy/)

## Description

My Time by NETGEAR is the kids’ companion app for Smart Parental Controls. It provides each child with a personalized dashboard that shows your internet rules and how much online time remains.

Key features include app-, category-, and platform-based time limits, a countdown before bedtime, and mobile notifications. It helps kids understand and follow established rules—without relying on bribes or frequent device confiscation.

## Rankings

- #199,434 — Overall

## Review summary

Users broadly criticize My Time by NETGEAR for unreliable time tracking, performance slowdowns, and frequent bugs. Major complaints include inaccurate screen-time counting, bedtime/zone issues, and filters that block legitimate sites, plus a VPN/Orbi interference and potential to be bypassed by kids. Privacy concerns about data collection are common. Some users still see value in the parental-control concept, noting it can work in certain network setups, but overall reliability problems and usability flaws dominate the feedback.

### Pros

- Provides parental controls to manage kids' device usage and content access.
- Enables time limits and bedtime scheduling to enforce rules.
- Intended as a tool for monitoring and guiding children's online activity.
- In some network setups, users report it works as intended.

### Cons

- Time tracking is inaccurate and drains quickly; based on internet activity rather than device usage; time increments in 5-minute steps; bedtime relies on guardian's time zone.
- Slows the internet and interferes with other apps/devices; VPN conflicts; can break hardware or cause instability.
- Parental controls are easy for kids to bypass or defeat; restrictions can persist after uninstall and be hard to remove.
- Privacy concerns: app appears to track user data and may share/sell data.
- Reliability/UX issues: bugs, slow performance, inconsistent filters, notification issues.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481417599)