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Reef — hand over your phone, not your whole phone.

Reef turns your iPhone into a safe little space you can hand your kid. Tap Start and every other app locks — they get a calm hub of just the games and sites you chose, and only you can get out, with Face ID or your PIN.

Coming soon to the App Store
The opening

Handing your kid your phone hands them everything.

One tap and they can wander into your messages, the App Store, random videos, the open web. The built-in tools aren't much help either: Guided Access locks the whole phone to a single app, and Screen Time is a settings panel, not a place a child wants to be. Reef fills the gap — a friendly, contained space a kid can play inside and can't wander out of.

What it does

A hub they live in, not a wall that blocks them.

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Reef

Parental Controls · Screen Time

Tap Start, hand it over, and only you can get back out.

  • Every other app locks the moment Reef starts — nothing else opens
  • A contained hub of the built-in games and kid-safe sites you choose
  • Websites open in a locked browser pinned to one site — links out are blocked
  • A profile per child — "Homework," "Road trip" — started in one tap
  • Only you exit, with Face ID or a PIN; no ads, no accounts, works offline
Coming soon to the App Store
How it works

Built on Apple's Family Controls — entirely on your device.

Reef uses Apple's Screen Time framework to shield every app except the ones you picked, all on your iPhone. Your child opens a grid of activities and stays inside it: tap one, play, close it, and they're right back at the hub — never out on the Home Screen. When they're done, turning Reef off needs Face ID or your PIN (with a device-passcode fallback and a brute-force lockout). Your app and site choices stay private — even we can't see them.

Why we built it

The ZET pattern: saturated market, mediocre incumbents, out-built on craft.

Parental-control apps mostly make apps "sleep" on the Home Screen or bury you in dashboards. Reef owns the slice they ignored — a contained in-app space the child actually enjoys and can't leave — with a lock only a grown-up can open. Find the friction, build the fix.

FAQ

Common questions

What is Reef?

Reef is a parental-controls app for iPhone. Tap Start and every other app locks; your child gets a contained hub of just the games and websites you chose, and only you can get out with Face ID or your PIN.

How is it different from Screen Time or Guided Access?

Guided Access locks the phone to one app and Screen Time is a settings panel. Reef gives your child a friendly hub they live inside — tap an activity, play, close it, and they're right back at the hub, never out on the Home Screen. It runs on Apple's Family Controls, entirely on your device.

Can my child get out on their own?

No. Turning Reef off needs Face ID or a PIN your child doesn't know, with a device-passcode fallback and a brute-force lockout. For the strongest lock you can also set a Screen Time passcode.

Does Reef have ads or collect data?

No ads, no accounts, and no tracking. Reef runs on your device and even works offline. Your app and site choices stay private.

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