Parental Controls by Ohana

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.

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

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 ):

This app is horrible. I used it for my son and he became so upset about how this app gives your children no privacy and makes their life more difficult, I understand that you want to make it so your children aren’t addicted to their devices but this doesn’t work. It just makes your children angry and gives them no privacy, just use the one in settings, this app sucks and I would give it zero stars if I could

I bypass all the time and isn't secure, waste of money would not recommend

Ohana was put on my phone and I find it pretty annoying. It’s really bad at measuring how much time I’ve used. Sometimes I’ll wake up in the morning and all my screen time for the day will be gone, even though I haven’t even touched my phone yet. My mom is constantly having to give me more screen time because it keeps running out. If you’re a parent and you wanna control your screen time, don’t use this app. Just use the one in settings.