Calmer mornings
Get dressed, eat breakfast, or make the bed before the feed gets the first word.
Unglue for parents and kids
Stop being the phone police.
Unglue gives your child a fair way to earn app access by doing something real first. You set the plan together. They practice following it without you managing every minute.
- Real-world habits before distracting apps
- Photos, focus, and steps can verify progress
- No message reading or location tracking
- Available on iPhone and Android
Free to download. Apple subscriptions support Family Sharing.
The Unglue loop
Life first. Apps after.
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1.Choose
Habits and apps
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2.Do
Something real
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3.Verify
Photo, focus, steps
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4.Unlock
A timed window
Repeat tomorrow with less reminding
“This worked so well.”
App Store review
“The routines and tasks look actually useful.”
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“It helped me drink, walk and clean.”
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The phone-police loop
A stronger rule can still leave you carrying the whole thing.
The reminder. The countdown. The argument. Then the guilty handover because dinner needs making and everybody is tired. By the next evening, you are back at the beginning.
We reach for our own phones too, so this is not a lecture about perfect discipline. Phones make the reward immediate. Most things we want kids to do pay off later.
Unglue closes that gap. A finished focus session, a walk, or a made bed produces visible progress now. The parent still provides the boundary. The child gets a reason to participate in it.
What your family gets back
The win is not a smaller number in a report.
It is the backpack opened before TikTok. Shoes by the door. A phone left on the counter while somebody finishes telling you what happened at school.
Homework first
A focus session turns finished work into screen time without another countdown from the kitchen.
Movement that counts
Step goals make a walk, fresh air, or the long way home visible right away.
Household routines
Small jobs like cleaning a desk or putting clothes away can become repeatable habits.
Quieter evenings
The system stays predictable when everyone is tired and one more negotiation feels like too much.
A better conversation
Talk about choices, effort, and what the phone is replacing instead of only arguing about minutes.
How it works
Four steps from “put it down” to “I earned this.”
There is no remote parent dashboard hiding off-screen. Setup happens together on the phone where Unglue will be used.
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Install Unglue on their phone
Unglue runs on the device where the habits happen and the distracting apps live.
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Choose the plan together
Pick restricted apps and add a few real-world habits that feel useful, achievable, and fair.
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They do something real
A photo, focus timer, or step goal verifies the action and adds earned tokens to their balance.
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They unlock on purpose
Your child spends earned tokens for a timed app-unlock window. When time is up, the block returns.
Set it up together
Choose the habits and distracting apps that make sense in your home.
Put real life first
Homework, movement, and small routines become the path back to selected apps.
Let Unglue check the work
Photos, focus timers, and step goals verify progress without you hovering nearby.
Give them a fair way in
Your child earns tokens, chooses an unlock window, and gets back to their apps on purpose.
Inside the app
A loop your child can understand in seconds.
Feature 01Earned access
A clear path back to the apps they enjoy.
Restricted apps stay blocked by default. Completing habits earns tokens, and those tokens buy a timed unlock window. The rule is visible before the bargaining starts.
Screen time becomes a choice with a cost, not a prize that moves every five minutes.
Feature 02Flexible verification
Proof without standing over their shoulder.
Use an on-device photo check for a visible task, a focus timer for homework, or a step goal for movement. Different habits can use the kind of proof that fits them.
You can leave the room. Unglue keeps the agreement concrete.
Feature 03Child-owned progress
Blobbie gives the habit a face.
Your child sees their own habits, balance, streak, and little companion. The experience belongs to them, which gives healthier choices a chance to feel like progress instead of punishment.
The goal is a child who can look up without you always having to ask.
Why Unglue feels different
The child gets a way forward, not another dead end.
Restriction alone
- The block is the whole plan.
- The parent carries every reminder and negotiation.
- Success means obeying until the restriction ends.
- More monitoring can mean less trust.
Unglue
- The block creates space for one useful action first.
- The agreement and unlock path stay visible on the child’s phone.
- Success means practicing a choice and seeing progress.
- Unglue does not read messages, track location, or inspect browsing history.
Some families still need firm safety tools and close supervision. Unglue focuses on motivation, daily habits, and earned access. It does not read private conversations, filter content, track location, or promise that a determined child can never remove it.
Real user reviews
The people using Unglue notice the little wins first.
These are App Store reviews from Unglue users. We are not relabeling them as parent testimonials.
“It helped me drink, walk and clean before being able to open up YouTube!”
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“The routines and tasks look actually useful.”
App Store review
“It helps so much. I am now one of the best students in my grade.”
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“This app is amazing. I used to spend about 4–6 hours a day scrolling and now I only spend 45 minutes and I feel so much better.”
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What families usually want to know
Does a parent control Unglue from another phone?
No. Unglue is set up and used on the family member’s own phone. We recommend choosing the restricted apps and first habits together, then letting the child use the experience as their own.
Can my child bypass or uninstall Unglue?
Unglue is not marketed as impossible to bypass, and it is not a substitute for a conversation or a firm family boundary. Its job is to give a child a motivating, predictable path to access so the system feels worth participating in.
Does Unglue read messages or track location?
No. Unglue does not read messages, track location, or inspect browsing history. It uses the device platform’s app-blocking tools to restrict the apps selected during setup.
What happens to activity photos?
Photos are analyzed on the device using its built-in vision framework. They are never stored, uploaded, or shared. If a photo does not match, the child can try again.
How are habits verified?
A habit can use an on-device photo check, a focus timer, a step goal, or simple completion depending on the activity. The family can choose methods that fit the routine instead of forcing every habit through the same check.
Can I share Unglue Plus with my family?
Yes on Apple devices. An Unglue Plus subscription supports Apple Family Sharing, so a family member can install Unglue on their own iPhone and restore the shared purchase. They need to be in your Apple Family Sharing group with purchase sharing turned on.
Does Unglue work on iPhone and Android?
Yes. Unglue is available from both the Apple App Store and Google Play. Apple Family Sharing applies only to eligible Apple subscriptions.
Does Unglue replace parental controls or online-safety tools?
No. Unglue focuses on habits, earned app access, and self-regulation. It is not a content filter, location tracker, message monitor, or replacement for safety controls your family may need.
Give them a reason to look up.
Start with one habit, one distracting app, and one agreement everybody can understand.
Available on iPhone and Android.