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Parental controls for your child’s phone and PC

You set the time and the schedule, and Gardion closes games and apps on Android and Windows when time is up.

  • 14 days free, no card needed
  • No auto-renewal
Gardion dashboard showing a child’s limits
a mother and son viewing Gardion on a tablet togetherthe child location map in Gardion
getting started

Three steps and you’re set

Set it up from your phone in a few minutes. The rules then run on their own.

  1. 1Install
  2. 2Connect your child
  3. 3Set the rules
a parent setting up Gardion from their phone

What’s inside

Limits, the website filter, schedules, the map and SOS are all set in the parent app.

Your child’s PC or laptop has its own page: parental controls for a Windows PC.

screen time

Control screen time

Limits by app and category, flexible schedules and break reminders.

apps and websites

Safer access to content

Website and app filters block unwanted content and unsafe resources.

schedules

A schedule for every day

School, downtime and sleep follow the schedule you set, and the rules switch on by themselves.

contact and location

Location and a direct line

Location, safe zones, SOS and a direct line to the parent on the child’s device.

panic button

SOS: hold the button for two seconds

The button sits in the notification shade, in the ongoing notification and as a home-screen widget. Your child holds it for two seconds, and you get an alert with the location on the map.

Bypass protection

Gardion notices third-party VPNs and clock changes, and restores deleted files on a PC.

School mode

Only learning apps stay available during school hours. Included in Premium.

One family dashboard

Every child and device lives in one account.

History without spying

See time in apps. Screenshots are taken only on request, in Premium.

Pricing

The first 14 days are full access, no card needed. Nothing renews automatically: you renew the plan yourself.

Try it free

Free

$0/ forever

After the 14 days: one computer

1 PC · 1 child

Free: all features

Time

  • One daily limit for the computer
  • Windows locks when time runs out
  • Apps that stay open while the computer is locked
  • Today’s screen time
  • A computer report: drives, battery, disk space
Recommended

Family

$25/ a year

≈ $2.08 a month

up to 2 devices · 2 children

Family: all features

Time and schedules

  • A daily limit on Windows and Android, shared across the child’s devices or set per device
  • Schedules by day of the week and a bedtime
  • Ready-made day modes: school, weekend, holiday, guests, sick day
  • School holidays by dates
  • “Everything open” windows on a schedule
  • Add or take away time with one tap
  • Your child asks for more minutes, you decide
  • Admin mode for an hour, three hours or the rest of the day

Apps

  • A limit for a single app
  • A limit for a group of apps, such as all games
  • Blocking an app

Websites

  • A website filter by category plus your own lists
  • SafeSearch and YouTube Restricted Mode
  • Browser history for 3 days: block the sites you tick with one button

Bypass protection

  • On Windows, Gardion blocks VPN apps, catches clock changes and restores its own files
  • On Android you are told about another VPN, and “Filter over VPN” switches it off
  • Uninstall protection on Android

Breaks

  • Breaks with a warm-up: animation, video or the camera
  • A star for every warm-up, stars trade for minutes

Location

  • Map and location history on Android
  • One zone with arrival and departure alerts
  • An SOS button with location and battery level

Messages and remote control

  • Chat with your child and a message shown on their screen
  • Open an app or a website on your child’s device
  • Pause the internet, restart or shut down the computer

Reports

  • Screen time by day and week, each day hour by hour
  • An event log of launches and blocks
  • Alerts when time runs out, on bypass attempts and when a device goes quiet
  • A computer report: drives, battery, disk space

Premium

$35/ a year

≈ $2.92 a month

up to 5 devices · 5 children

Premium: all features

Everything in Family, plus

  • Up to 5 devices and up to 5 children
  • A screenshot on request
  • Disk cleanup and startup apps on the computer
  • As many zones as you need: home, school, clubs
  • Chores with a photo, rewards, prize codes and stars from you
  • An alert when your child opens a site with a flagged word
  • 30 days of browsing history
  • School mode, soft or strict, also on a schedule

Premium monthly

$5/ a month

up to 5 devices · 5 children

Premium monthly: all features

Everything in Family, plus

  • Up to 5 devices and up to 5 children
  • A screenshot on request
  • Disk cleanup and startup apps on the computer
  • As many zones as you need: home, school, clubs
  • Chores with a photo, rewards, prize codes and stars from you
  • An alert when your child opens a site with a flagged word
  • 30 days of browsing history
  • School mode, soft or strict, also on a schedule

Parent app for Android

What it looks like in use

Four short scenes show the parent dashboard, the child’s device and the main controls.

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The parent dashboard

Time left today, per-app limits and stars for finished tasks.

Video: how Gardion helps a child at home and outside

A break with a warm-up, time for books, a walk, and the SOS button that shows mom on a map where her child is.

Comic, page one: a boy sits with his phone in the evening; the Gardion knight flies in through the window and the boy jumps up; the boy and the knight do squats while a phone on a stand counts the moves
Comic, page two: the boy and the knight read a book on the rug; the boy walks his puppy with the knight beside him; mom hugs her son on an evening street under a map pin
on the child’s device

What your child sees

Children can see how much time is left, message a parent or ask for 15 more minutes. During a break, Gardion shows a short warm-up.

Home screen

Protection active

Left today — 32 min
Until break — 18 min

SOS — hold for 2 seconds

A long press sends your location and a notification to your parent

Chat
Stars: 12
School mode
Ask for time
I’m a parent

Gardion

Break options

On-screen warm-up

Gardion shows one of ten full-screen exercises.

Break schedule

A parent sets how often a break comes and how long it lasts, and can end it from their dashboard.

Camera game

The camera counts the moves on the device, and no video is uploaded. A parent can turn the camera off, and each break earns the child a star.

why Gardion

Screen time can be earned

A parent creates a task and sets the reward. The child marks it complete, the parent checks the result, and saved stars can be exchanged for extra time or a family reward. Tasks, rewards and prizes are included in Premium.

family goal
25stars

Tidy the room

Photo → parent review → +25

  1. Parent creates a task
  2. Child marks it complete
  3. Parent awards stars

Works away from home

Rules run on the device itself, not only on your home network.

Only a parent disables protection

Gardion repairs itself on Windows, and Android settings are protected by a PIN.

bypass protection

The common ways around parental controls are already covered

Gardion blocks the main Windows bypass methods and alerts parents to tampering. New methods are added through updates.

  • On a PC, known VPN apps are shut down. On a phone, the parent is notified about a third-party VPN.
  • Changing the clock or the time zone does not give a child extra time.
  • Deleted or modified Gardion files on a PC are restored automatically.
  • Rules run on the device itself — at home, at school or away.

No protection is absolute. Gardion makes bypassing the rules much harder and shows parents when a child tries to tamper with them.

Try it free
a teenager using a phone late at night

Frequently asked

The six questions we hear most often.

Free costs nothing and has no time limit, but it's deliberately the bare minimum: 1 PC, one shared daily limit and real blocking — so you can see for yourself that the protection works. Breaks, schedules, per-app limits, Android and bypass protection are already in Family. Free is a way to try it out; ongoing protection needs a paid plan.