How families use SimpleSentinel

How families use SimpleSentinel, moment by moment: bedtime, homework, dinner, church, and the night a sitter has the children.

Each moment below names the feature that handles it, so you can find it in the app the first evening.

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One price, unlimited children and devices. 7-day free trial, billed by Apple.

The moments

Bedtime

A named downtime window called Bedtime, on the nights you pick, with a heads-up chime before it starts. The clock on the child's phone is locked to network time, so there is no changing the time to end it early. Phone calls keep working.

Homework and chores

Type the chore, set when it is due, and decide what happens if it is not done: the phone stays open, goes into downtime until it is done, or locks fully until it is done. For homework, a Downtime pause keeps the apps you always allow and closes the rest.

Dinner and church

One tap on your phone: a Full pause closes everything on theirs, in seconds, even mid-game. Handing over your own phone in the pew? Turn Kid Mode on and your iPhone follows that child's rules until your Face ID or passcode turns it off.

A sitter night

Invite a sitter with a personal link that works on any phone, make them active for the evening, and decide what they can see and do. The next morning, the Daily Summary shows what happened and every setting anyone changed.

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Pricing

Founding Family (First 1,000 Families)

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$9.99/mo

or $99.99/yr

About 28 cents/day for every device & child.
Your price never goes up as long as you stay subscribed.

Regular Price

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$16.99/mo

or $149.99/yr

About 41 cents/day for every device & child.
Compare to A locked-down phone @ $1,000/yr per child.