Parental Control App - OurPact

I rue the day that I first heard about this app. My son and I had grown tired of Apple's atrocious Screen Time feature and were both looking forward to something that would allow us a more refined measure of control and OurPact seemed to fit the bill nicely. Unfortunately, this software is broken and unreliable in ways that are difficult to count. Even installing the Device Management stub on the client phone took weeks due to a series of issues that renders it unable to be installed from a Mac of even moderately recent vintage. Once past that, there are so many issues with buggy, broken, nonsensical or flat out poorly implemented features that after hours of struggling with getting things set up properly, my son had a device that had been both reset and crippled and there was nothing that could be done via the parental control app that could address any of these issues. On the positive side, I found their support department to be helpful, professional and easy to work with. Unfortunately, there was little they could do in the face of software that was so poorly implemented. My son and I are now back to Screen Time and just gritting our teeth.

Don’t install this on your kid’s phone unless you want it to take over everything. Completely blew away wallpapers, app groupings, contact images, etc. Tried to immediately reinstall every app that’s ever been on his phone. Then when I tried to use the one feature I wanted this app for, the random screenshots to keep him honest, found out you have to pay a monthly subscription to use any of the features that are worth anything.

The app requires you to connect the child’s phone to a computer. No problem with that. But afterwards several apps were deleted (not inaccessible, deleted), wallpapers changed, etc. <br/><br/>That either should not happen, or should be made explicit in the instructions. <br/><br/>It was not clear how to use the child’s app after that (requires pushing a start/stop button even to access allowed apps and sites). It was much too intrusive.

Good app, and probably the only one that works well. But many times the schedule does not work and when you see the phone is open. They need to improve it, it’s been years with same issue.

I reached out to support about tamperproofing, the feature that prevents this app from just being uninstalled by anyone, being non functional. It has been two months and they are still “working on it”. This renders the app completely useless. I’m not sure what the developers are doing over there but it’s bewildering that a bug that makes the app completely useless has not been fixed in over two months.

We’ve been using our pact since 2021 when our oldest got a phone, and now use it for all three of our kids phones. I won’t tell someone how to parent, but will definitely recommend not allowing your child under 16 to have access to the internet. It’s an endless supply of information that can be traumatizing to a child. Social media is the worst thing for a kid. This app allows you to block all of that. Personally don’t like the premium +, as we tried it for two months. We put in specific words that were supposed to be flagged, but never were. The screen shots are useless as you child has to open the app when requested. So don’t bother with the extra subscription. You can utilize the $6.99 by blocking apps, setting schedules and check locations(if you don’t share location with your kids). We love the schedule feature, it’s beneficial for discipline and responsibility. I recommend this app highly and think everyone that has a kid with a phone should use this. We dropped one star because of the premium + subscription, wish it worked as described.

We have used this app for all my children since 2015. My youngest is still monitored by it. I will say sometimes the controls are glitchy when I’m try to allow something, but it’s far and away superior to iOS parental (non) controls. iOS doesn’t actually want your child protected, so they never update your choices when they update their system. Be aware of that. OurPact has been consistent and trustworthy, even if it’s kinda hard to let things through sometimes. -Loyal longtime customer.

People, Please don’t buy this game if your not ready, You have to SIGN UP and pay 50 WHOLE DOLLARS A WEEK👎👎👎👎👎 (or whatever it was that day and it will get worse for the rest the day after that time to get better at the end and the game is still on its last chance of getting worse and you will get better and worse for it than before you have it in the first round and the next game will get worse because of you guys having the game to make you play the first time you have the same games of this game and you will get better luck in the future and you will get better things will get better soon and you will get better and you will get better a-) DONT BUY THIS GAME