Circle Parental Controls App
September 09, 2024
More About Circle Parental Controls App
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:
[email protected]
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/
Latest Version
2.32.2.1
September 09, 2024
Aura Sub LLC
Internet
Android
169,221
Free
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User Reviews
Vlad Molitvenik
4 years ago
Makes everything painful. I use this app to place limits on my phone use which works great. My problem is that other normal functions are affected to the point that my phone is almost unusable. At times texts don't send, certain apps will not open, certain websites will not open. I don't know of another app that can take care of the monitoring functions that I need, so I have to use this one.
Kristi Bee
1 year ago
This app sounds like a great idea, but it consistently FAILS! Just like others say, it works fine for a couple of days and then it will not work! We have spent more time being frustrated and wasting money and time than we have actually being able to use this app! It's TERRIBLE!!!! Edit after company response: We would love to get help from the company, but we have reached out repeatedly to you, and we have not gotten through and we get no technical assistance. This app is worthless 😟👎
Michelle Hunter
2 years ago
This app does not work as advertised. It claims to block sites at a level before the individual computers but it seems to be hit and miss. We have not renewed and our app shows no subscription but today, out of the blue, they took a monthly subscription fee out of our account. This is unethical and, quite frankly, illegal. I have contacted them and will contact my bank.
C N
2 years ago
I love the theory behind this app, but it simply doesn't work. All of the adults using Android in our household have the same issue; the app works great for a day or two, and then it freezes on the loading screen indefinitely. The only consistent solution we've found to this is resetting the app data or reinstalling the app, and repeating every 2ish days.
Desi Johnson
2 years ago
Sometimes it works but often it just doesn't. When I first got Circle a couple years ago, it was awesome. Now, it's pretty much pointless. Can't pause the internet, can't filter all the devices, won't get reports...it goes on. All it does is slow down your internet. Disney used to own Circle, but now it's Aura. I'm not sure if that's still part of Disney, but I'm going to guess not. I'm going to try Bark.
Michael Morris
5 years ago
Ever since my mother purchased this device (about 6 months ago) we have been experiencing many connection issues. The wifi speed can be extremely inconsistent at times, and sometimes I cant get internet access at all (even when the circle app says I am). I did some research and found that our specific wifi router is not mentioned in either the list of compatible routers nor the list of incompatible routers. We cant return the $100 device because it was purchased months ago.
Adam Smith
2 years ago
The app crashes when clicking on Apple devices for usage. Kids easily remove the app from tablets. It is easy to assign devices to groups and set schedules or turn off internet. Youtube is always a struggle because it appears as an app usage or browser usage so difficult to limit as kids are smart enough to just shift how they are consuming.
A Google user
5 years ago
Circle is ok in content monitoring, but the app is bad. Opening the app brings up the pin entry with numeric keypad, but then a spinner, then the keypad didappears. There is no deep linking, so any notification requires me to remember some piece of info like a mac address and search for it. The interface for profiles is useless if you have more that 5 profiles, or two kids with the same first letter of their name. I find that common actions in the app are convoluted or take too many taps.
Austin Watts
3 years ago
The Circle is just not that good at blocking content you don't want your kids to see. It has a feature that allows you to assign all new devices to the "Home" profile which was good to just keep that paused and prevented devices such as the Xbox who allows you to change the Mac address and spoof the system, but now even pausing doesn't work. I purchased the lifetime package and regret it. Also it interferes with all my smart home devices, bulbs and such even though I have them set to unmanaged.
Karma Watters
3 years ago
Its great when it works. Very annoying when it doesn't. Which is too often. Sometimes can't connect so your stuck with whatever it's set on. Right now it has a bug that makes the categories tab not open. Such a pain to work around. No customer service. Edited to 1 star based on recent blackouts. Totally unacceptable functioning as of late.
Matt Vrazel
3 years ago
So far, so bad! I purchased the circle plus device for my home network, and the app will not set it up. I've tried with wired and wireless connections. The app stalls on the "looking for your circle device" page when attempting to pair through ethernet. When I try to pair via wifi, I can connect to the circle hotspot, but after that, the app stalls and won't do anything. I reset the device, reinstalled the app, and am still unable to pair.
Raven L.
3 years ago
This app is terrible and barely works. Why am I paying for it? I haven't been able to connect to the circle app for a while now, it gives an error saying cannot connect to circle... Also, anyone who can't login using their email address, the login is case sensitive. I had the same issue until I made my entire email lowercase. Hope that helps someone.
christiana pascavage
2 years ago
I would have given this 5 stars a year ago. I've used it for a couple years with no issues and loved it. However, the past couple months it won't work. Everytime I try to open the app it spins like it's loading but never opens. I saw another reviewer also comment on this "circle of doom." It's worthless to me now that I can't open the app. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app multiple times. Never works.
Susanna Stokman
3 years ago
The product itself is excellent, though not for an Adroid phone out side the home wifi. In that case, the app can easily be removed from the phone. Boo. But we got something else for the phones and kept this for the devices in house. But now that the trial is over, I can't restart the subscription! I am working with customer service, but I've been escalated twice, and still no luck. I am really hoping they can fix this bug, I'd like to keep this service!
Andrew Maughan
3 years ago
The device hasn't kept up with technology in general. The Circle device is supposed to identify the devices on my network, but it couldn't identify most of them. So I wasn't sure which devices I was working with and didn't know which settings to establish. It was such a mess. The few devices it did identify still didn't have finding and other settings working after I established them. At one point the app finally crashed and wouldn't open again. I never was able to open again.
Monica
1 year ago
While a appreciate having an add on to my home network to monitor all traffic (including tv) + app controls, the circle parental controls app is so buggy. It frequently doesn't work at all and support is very unhelpful, usually suggesting I do things I've listed as things I've already tried. It will randomly start working again on its own. I wish it worked as expected, reliably, because it's great when it does work.
William DeGraffenreid
2 years ago
Sometime in the last week, something has failed. I cannot connect to the system from my Pixel Pro 6. I've rebooted Circle, cleared cache, force stopped app, and even removed and reinstalled app - and Circle will not get past first screen with Circle logo with spinning circle of dots. Very frustrating. Fortunately, wife's iOS version seems to work - but this is very frustrating!
Sheila Garrett
2 years ago
When it actually loads, it works fine, but it often takes upwards of 5 minutes to load. My biggest complaint is that when devices are being used during "focus time" it always uses up their regular time limit, even though it's not supposed to. For example, we have focus time set from 7am-12pm, with certain apps allowed. If they listen to audiobooks (which are allowed!) for 3 hours during focus time, it won't allow them to play games/watch videos during the hour I have given. It's frustrating!
Lisa Rhodes
11 months ago
Absolutely garbage product. It filtered only half the time Didn't alert me to when it went offline. The customer service is awful. I paid $99 for the year. I have had an issue and have not had the home filter working for the past two months. The customer service team still hasn't fixed it. I keep providing the same info and even took pics, and they couldn't figure it out for almost months. Finally, someone seems to understand, but it has been 10 days since our last email. This is so ridiculous
Garen Burdick
10 months ago
The restrictions work, but as a 14 year old, I have some problems / recommendations for the child side of the app. I use a samsung phone, and half of the time when I open the app, the internet I use doesn't update on the app. Sometimes it doesn't even give me the 15 minutes left and the out of time notification. On the topic of notifications, I feel that u should be able to choose when it notifies me. There could be a settings tab where I could choose it to notify me when I have 30-60 mins left.
