Activity monitoring
A readable timeline of apps opened, sites visited and time spent — summarised by the hour instead of logged keystroke by keystroke.
New Block, Enforce & Remind modes
See enough.
Not everything.
A parental-control and device-monitoring app made by kids, for parents.
Screen-time limits, app blocking, live activity and smart alerts across every device your family owns — in one calm dashboard. We built the thing we wish our own parents had: protective enough to matter, transparent enough to trust.
Download Optic
Free for families · Windows 10 & 11
- Free for up to 3 devices
- No ads, ever
- We never sell your family's data
- Kids can see what's monitored
The dashboard
Your whole family, on one screen
Open it in any browser. Same numbers, same controls, no digging.
Timeline view
1200 × 800
Limits & schedules
1200 × 800
Alert detail
1200 × 800
What Optic does
Everything a parent actually needs
Six tools, one app. No upsells hiding the important parts behind a paywall.
Smart alerts
Get told when something genuinely matters: a blocked app, a blocked site, screen time running out, or a request for more time waiting on you.
Screen-time tools
Daily budgets with a self-serve grace allowance. Kids can request extra time with a reason; you approve in one tap.
App & web blocking
Block apps and websites outright — or nudge instead, with Enforce and Remind modes on per-time-of-day schedules you set.
Parent dashboard
Every child, every device, one screen in your browser: activity, rules, requests, and a rule assistant you talk to in plain English.
Kid-visible by design
Nothing happens silently: blocked apps and sites, time warnings and nudges all arrive as on-screen popups, so your child always knows why.
41k
Families using Optic
128k
Devices paired
4 min
Average setup time
4.8/5
Parent rating
Screen time
Limits that survive contact with a real family
Set one daily budget for the whole device, not per fight. Block school hours outright, nudge after school, and let evenings be gentle reminders.
- Daily budgets with a self-serve grace allowance
- Per-time-of-day modes: Block, Enforce, Remind
- "Ask for 20 more minutes" requests with a reason attached
Alerts
Told when it matters, quiet the rest of the time
Optic tells your child first, through on-screen popups — and tells you when something needs a parent: a rule hit, time running out, or a request waiting.
- Screen time running low, screen time exhausted
- Blocked apps and sites, named honestly in a popup
- Extra-time requests landing in your dashboard
Why us
Built by kids. That's the whole point.
Every monitoring app we tried was written by adults guessing at what teenagers do all day. We're the ones being monitored — so we know which controls actually work, which ones get bypassed in an afternoon, and which ones quietly wreck the trust in a house.
- Nothing hiddenYour child sees the same activity list you do.
- No stealth modeOptic never runs invisibly. If it's watching, it says so.
- No message readingWe show patterns and flags, never a transcript of private chats.
- Ages with themPresets loosen as your child gets older, on a schedule you set.
From parents
Fewer arguments, better evenings
Placeholder quotes for this demo — swap in real reviews as they come in.
Set it up before dinner.
Free for up to three devices. No card, no trial countdown, no ads. Install it, pair a phone, and you're done in about four minutes.
Download Optic Free for families · Windows 10 & 11