The app is a teammate
Optic is trying to work with your child to develop their self control skills with devices, and behaves as such, rather than an enemy that tries to restrict your child at every turn.
Our story
About us
Built by the generation
being monitored
We are four students who had personal experience with the parental controls on the market, so we built the one that we would want to use.
What we believe
Principles we won't trade away
Firm, but reasonable
Even though Optic believes in the well-meaning intent of children, it doesn't sacrifice any of the power that other parental controls only care about.
Cooperation, not control
Optic is designed such that relationships between parents and children aren't hurt from conflicts through transparency and encouraging collaboration.
“As a child matures, restrictions should be less and less as they learn what acceptable boundaries are, and learn to control their impulses.”
“With middle schoolers…the response is a lot more confrontational, because they don't understand why the rules exist.”
The team
Four students and a patient advisor
Ayden Yang
Wils Brous
Andre Hamghalam
Carter Alfers
Grown-up in the room
Dr. Gabby
Working with us
We answer our own email
There's no support tier and no chatbot. If you write to us, one of the four of us reads it — usually within a day, sometimes after school.
Schools and clinicians: ask about the classroom licence, it's free under thirty devices.
Try what we built.
Free for three devices, no card, no ads. If you hate it, uninstalling takes one tap and takes your data with it.
Download Optic Free for families · Windows 10 & 11