Parental Controls by Ohana Apple

Parental Controls by Ohana

Limit screen time, block apps

Features & Capabilities

100,000+ parents trust Ohana to keep kids safe online. This parental controls app helps families limit screen time, block apps, and automatically filter web content across devices with mode switches for Locked, Study, and Leisure.

Additional features include bedtime scheduling, weekly safety insights, cross-device compatibility, optional location sharing, and a privacy-first approach. Try Ohana free and protect your family today.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Ohana Software GmbH
Rating:
4.10
(319)
Version:
4.72.0 Last updated: 2026-06-08
Version code:
886586723
Creation date:
2022-05-04
Compatible devices:
Size:
93.01MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-13
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Developed by:
Ohana Software GmbH
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parental-controls-by-ohana/id1613169688
Website:
https://www.ohana.app

User Reviews

Overall, reviews are mixed but skew negative. Most frequent complaints center on privacy invasion and distrust, inaccurate screen-time reporting, and the app interfering with normal device use (blocked browsers, App Store). Many users report difficulty removing the app, and concerns that some features require Ohana Plus or overstate free access. A few reviews praise ease of use, peace of mind, location tracking, and simple time limits. The product is seen as duplicating built-in controls and causing disputes rather than solving problems.
Pros
  • Easy to use and quick to set up
  • Provides peace of mind to parents by enabling time limits and monitoring
  • Effective time-limiting features for teens
  • Location tracking helps parents stay informed about their kids
  • Content filtering aimed at age-appropriate content
Cons
  • Invasion of privacy and sense of distrust between parent and child due to constant monitoring
  • Unreliable screen-time reporting and time-limit calculations (e.g., limits spike or run out unexpectedly)
  • Interferes with basic device functions (blocks browser, app store, or other normal tasks)
  • Difficult or sometimes impossible to uninstall/remove the app for the user
  • Perceived as limited free functionality with paid Ohana Plus features and misleading free-access claims
Recent reviews
I personally hate this app. I believe that if you trust your child enough to even have a phone or any kind of device in the first place, then you should also trust that your child is capable of staying out of trouble and making reasonable decisions. Giving someone a device and then constantly monitoring and restricting everything they do on it completely defeats the purpose. If there is truly that little trust, then honestly the better solution would be to not give the kid a device at all rather than handing them one and then turning it into a heavily controlled system. What makes it worse is that this app doesn’t just “set boundaries.” It interferes with basic functionality and creates unnecessary problems that never needed to exist. I’ve had it block the browser entirely, randomly restrict things I actually need to use, and impose screen-time limits on devices where that restriction makes absolutely no sense. Instead of helping, it turns simple tasks into frustrating obstacles. Things that should take seconds suddenly require jumping through hoops just to work around restrictions that feel pointless and arbitrary. Another thing that makes this app even more pointless is that every single function it performs can already be done using the built-in Screen Time controls on the device. The phone literally comes with its own system for managing usage, setting limits, and controlling content if that’s something a parent wants to do. Installing a completely separate app just to duplicate those same features feels unnecessary and excessive. It’s like adding another layer of control that doesn’t actually provide anything new—just more complications and more things that can break. On top of that, it’s honestly embarrassing. Saying your device has the normal built-in controls that come with the phone is one thing—that’s just a standard feature. But having a whole separate monitoring app installed makes it feel way more extreme and invasive than it needs to be. It turns something that could be handled quietly through the device’s own settings into something much more obvious and uncomfortable. Even beyond the technical issues, the whole concept feels incredibly intrusive. It sends the message that the default assumption is that the child can’t be trusted, which is honestly pretty insulting. Trust is something that’s supposed to be built, not replaced with constant monitoring and automatic limits. An app like this doesn’t encourage responsibility—it just creates resentment and frustration because it constantly reminds you that someone else is controlling what you can and can’t do on your own device. At the end of the day, the problems this app creates far outweigh whatever benefits it claims to have. Instead of promoting healthy device use, it complicates everything and makes normal use of a phone unnecessarily difficult. So yeah, I genuinely despise this app. It doesn’t solve problems—it creates them, and most of those problems wouldn’t even exist if the app itself didn’t exist in the first place.
by Sy*****, 2026-03-09

Es disparate y le inmoviliza totalmente el dispositivo del menor y no deja que el padre controle el dispositivo, no se bloquea cuando pones la hora ni se desbloquea cuando pones el tiempo
by yo*****, 2026-02-26

I hate this app so much my mom took my phone at night time and installed this bro I could not delete anything and bro I can’t have privacy anymore cuz my mom be tracking everything I do even messing and App Store are blocked I hate this app like if my storage is full I can’t delete anything ):
by Si*****, 2026-01-13
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