Your kid learns to budget their own screen time.

Both give your kid one countdown they don't control, and both give you a one-tap approve when it runs out. Rulely gives your kid the same total time as a handful of 30-minute blocks they start themselves, whenever they choose, so they're planning a day instead of watching a timer. And when you do say yes to more, it isn't one tap. It's a short hold, then a one-minute pause, with the limit staying in place the whole time and Keep the limit always available. Same amount of time. Different lesson.

No. You still set the total minutes and the bedtime, and that part never leaves your hands. What your kid controls is timing within that total: when to spend it, not how much there is. That's the part that teaches them anything. A fixed amount they have to plan around is time management. A number an adult enforces from outside isn't.

$9.99 a month or $79.99 a year in the US, which works out to $6.67 a month. One price covers your whole family, however many children. Setup asks for nothing: no card, no price, no countdown. Rulely runs free until it has visibly done its job in your house, for up to seven days, and only then asks once. App Store prices vary by region.

Rulely stops enforcing your rules, and it tells you before and after, never silently. Your rules, your kid's phone pairing, and everything you set up stay saved. Subscribe again and enforcement resumes with nothing to set up twice.

Set it up the way Rulely walks you through, with your child's Apple ID in Family Sharing and a Screen Time passcode only you know. After that, deleting the app or switching off its permissions isn't something your kid can quietly do. That passcode also protects the device clock. If Screen Time access for Rulely ever does get switched off, the rules stop running and Rulely tells you so, plainly, in your app, with reminders until it's fixed. And if the phone can't reach Rulely for over a day, or the clock gets rolled back, the managed apps stay closed rather than quietly opening.

A plain weekly record, not a report card. It counts what happened with your kid's requests: how many times they asked for more time, how many got extra time, how many stayed within the limit, and how many went unanswered. Extra time is a normal outcome, logged like the rest. No streaks, no scores, nothing that grades you. Just what happened, so you can adjust the plan while you're rested.

No. Rulely manages which apps can open and when, not what's inside them. It can't see messages, photos, browsing, or keystrokes, and your kid's usage minutes are tallied on their own phone and never sent to us. Nothing about your child is collected before you've given verified consent, and you can export or delete it all whenever you want.

iPhone. Rulely runs on Apple's own Screen Time controls, so your kid's iPhone needs a child Apple ID in your Family Sharing group for the rules to be tamper-proof. Your own phone runs the parent side of the same app.