Watching — screen time for ages 3–12
Watching is a parental-control app for children aged 3–12. A parent sets the rules on their own phone. On a child’s Android device, Watching can be the Home screen: approved apps, time blocks, a short quiz, and a lock that covers every non-emergency app if a quiz is missed.
Children do not create accounts, do not get an email address, and do not sign in. The child’s phone is a device the parent pairs with a QR code or a short code.
What parents control
- Which apps the child may open.
- How long each app can be used before a quiz.
- What happens after a missed quiz: a cooldown that shields non-emergency apps. Phone stays available.
- An optional daily time ceiling, rewards, and whether extra quizzes are generated in the cloud.
- Reports of time used and quiz results.
What Watching does not do
- No advertising and no sale of personal information.
- No GPS, contacts, SMS, call logs, photo library, or microphone recording.
- No child social network, chat, or public profile.
- No hidden accessibility service and no claim that a normal consumer phone can silently block uninstall.
Documents for Google Play
Use these addresses in the Play Console. They are public, do not require a login, and match the in-app links.
- Privacy Policy — Play Console privacy-policy URL
- Terms and Conditions
- Children’s privacy
- Data safety — checklist for the Data safety form
- Delete account — Play Console account-deletion URL
- Support
- Software notices