For parents

Screen time for parents. Yours, not your kid's.

Not another parental-control app. kadn blocks the pull-away apps on your own phone, so dinner, bathtime and bedtime stop losing to the feed. Be in the room, not behind a screen.

iPhone · calls always work

The pattern

The scroll happens right in front of them.

Nobody plans to be a distracted parent. It arrives in five-minute pieces.

The after-work decompress

You sit down for five minutes of feed and surface forty minutes later. The evening window with your kid is small, and it just got smaller.

The bedtime check

One glance during the routine and you’re half gone. Kids notice a face lit from below, long before they can say so.

The example they copy

Your kid will manage their attention the way they watched you manage yours. The rule on your phone teaches more than any lecture.

Set it up once

Phone-free dinner, automatically, every day.

You don’t decide at 5:30 with a tired brain. You decided once, on a calm Sunday, and kadn keeps the schedule.

Pick the pull-away apps

Feeds, video, news. Chosen in Apple’s own picker, kadn never sees the names. Calls, camera and messages stay.

Schedule the family windows

5:30 to 8pm on weekdays, weekend mornings, whatever your family’s rhythm is. The system enforces it even when kadn is closed.

Make it a pact with your co-parent

The same rule on both phones until a date you pick. You see each other by name and streak, never by app.

The one that matters

Quiet windows at dinner and bedtime.

From 5:30 to 8 the feed is simply gone. No red alarms, no shame screens, just a calm wall and the time it protects. The school can still call, the babysitter can still text. You block apps, never the phone.

A concrete plan

The presence routine.

A shape that fits most family evenings. Change the times, keep the idea.

17:30

Dinner

Feeds and video on Blocked (L3) until 7. The phone still rings, the reflex just has nowhere to go.

19:00

Bath & bedtime

Code (L2) until 8:30. A real emergency gets through the friction. A reflex doesn’t bother.

Sunday

Slow morning

Block now for 3 hours, both parents, one pact. Pancakes without a feed running under the table.

In their words

Why parents set the rule for themselves.

“This is my children’s childhood, and I’m spending it aimlessly scrolling.”

Parent

“I feel like a bad mum.”

The feeling we design against, not for

“The built-in controls are easy to ignore.”

Why kadn holds where they don't

FAQ

What parents ask first.

Is this a parental control app for my child's phone?

No, and that’s deliberate. kadn runs on your phone, for you. It doesn’t watch or restrict your child’s device. It gives your kid more of you.

What if the school or the babysitter calls?

Calls and SMS always work. kadn blocks apps you choose, never the phone itself. Emergency calls, camera and maps are untouched unless you block them.

Can my partner and I hold the line together?

Yes. Make the dinner rule a pact: the same rule runs on both phones until the date you set, and leaving takes a visible 24 hours. Nobody quietly gives up at 9pm.

I answer work messages in the evening. Does that break this?

No. A rule covers only the apps you pick. Many parents block feeds and video and leave mail or Slack open, or give work apps their own softer rule.

Tonight

Be in the room tonight.

Dinner is at 6 either way. Free for 7 days, calm from the first evening.