We have our very popular Always Allowed app list feature where parents can choose apps they feel are of high quality for screen time use. Once on this list, these apps do not count down the child’s daily usage limit. Typically we see parents adding apps of an educational nature to this list. Now what about other apps like games and social media? Here’s a list we’ve compiled that lists the top 10 most popular apps by time collected across all of our users. The amount of hours are most likely a lot less than those not using our app to control screen time, bedtimes and overall app controls we provide. For parents using our latest version of Parent Mode (available for Android and iOS devices), parents can now block, allow or add apps to the Always Allowed list on their child’s Android devices anytime. 

1. YouTube By far the most popular among kids. We also have a unique approach with YouTube where parents can review viewed history and searches made by kids. When parents turn on Restricted Mode inside the YouTube app, we can also block access to this area so kids do not go and change this setting.    

2. Instagram

Instagram best practices in this post

3. WhatsApp

outside of North America where WhatsApp is very popular

4. SPIN Safe Browser

5. Snapchat

tips for parents to check out on Snapchat here

6. Facebook

7. Android Messages (Text Messages)

8. YouTube Kids

there are some gotchas as per this article

9. Chrome

9. Netflix

How do I set parental controls on my Netflix account?

10. Facebook Messenger

kids are using different devices

Honourable mentions go to

• Music.ly
• Clash Royale
• Samsung Messages
• Spotify
• Minecraft