Questions parents ask about Gardion

The free plan covers one PC and one child, forever. Family is $39 a year and adds Android, per-app limits and bypass protection. Premium is $59 a year — the same features for up to five devices and five children.

Yes, 14 days, no card needed. You pay only when you decide to stay.

Not yet. Our checkout runs through a Russian payment provider, which accepts Russian bank cards and SBP instant transfers, so a card issued in another country will not go through. You can still install Gardion anywhere and stay on the free plan, which never expires. We are choosing an international payment provider now.

No. There is no subscription: once a year you choose to renew or not. We don’t store your payment details.

Only capacity: up to five devices and five children instead of three. The feature set is the same; Premium adds priority support, answered by the developer.

No. Gardion manages time and access. The dashboard shows minutes per app, browser history and location — we don’t read messages.

Yes, the child sees on screen that protection is active. There is no hidden spying in Gardion: clear rules hold better than secret watching.

The day’s events, minutes per app, browser history and a dot on the map. A full walkthrough with real dashboard screens is in the article what parents see in reports.

Not quietly. On Android, Gardion runs as a device administrator: it interrupts an attempt to open the uninstall screen and immediately alerts the parent.

The limit sits on the app itself, so the network does not affect it and a personal VPN will not help. On Android, Family covers VPN tricks and tampering with system files. Windows Safe Mode is a longer answer — see below.

On a computer, yes, if the child has administrator rights. Windows Safe Mode and a second account stay open, and the only way to close them is to take those rights away from the child. That breaks much of everyday work on the computer, so we do not do it. Every parental control on Windows has the same limit, apart from the one built into the system itself. We say this plainly: a promise that something cannot be removed gets tested sooner or later. What Gardion does instead: the app restores itself when files are deleted, the service resists being stopped, and a parent hears about lost administrator rights right away.

We publish the breakdowns openly: how parental controls get removed covers each popular app, and Windows workarounds covers the PC.

The child’s Android phones and tablets, and Windows computers. The parent sets everything up from their own phone.

Not yet. Gardion currently covers Android and Windows; an iOS version is planned.

Free covers one PC. Family covers up to three devices and three children, and Premium raises that to five and five.

Gardion Family goes on the parent’s phone, Gardion Kids on the child’s device, and they link with a code. The step-by-step guide with real screenshots is on the installation page.

You remove it from the parent dashboard. The phone itself will not let you: the app protects against removal, so opening the system uninstall screen closes that screen and sends you a notification, exactly as it would if the child were doing it. The phone cannot tell you apart from your child. Open the dashboard, delete that device from the list, and the phone receives a command: it lifts the locks, turns off device administrator rights and offers to uninstall itself, so all that is left is to tap OK. If the phone is switched off at that moment, the command arrives the next time it starts.

Email app@gardion.io or message us on Telegram — the links are in the site footer. The developer answers.

If your child is under 13 and an overall limit is enough, Family Link will do. Gardion adds Windows, per-app limits and uninstall protection. The honest side-by-side is on the Android controls page.

From 13, a teen in Family Link can start turning supervision off themselves. How to hand over freedom step by step, and what to use instead, is in the guide my child turned 13.