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