Haven Kid

Haven (HavenKid) helps parents keep their child's phone use safe, balanced, and age-appropriate — app blocking, screen time limits, content filtering, location safety, and a one-tap emergency button, all set up by a parent and managed from the companion Haven Parent app.

WHAT HAVEN DOES
• Block apps & websites — parents choose which apps and websites are off-limits, by name or by category.
• Screen time limits — set daily time limits per app or app category; Haven enforces them automatically.
• Focus schedules — automatically restrict device use during school hours or bedtime.
• Location & safe zones — see your child's location and get notified when they arrive at or leave a safe zone (home, school, etc.).
• Emergency button — a one-tap button on the child's home screen that calls the parent's emergency contact and sends the parent an alert in the Haven Parent app, including the child's current location if the parent has that setting turned on.
• Content filtering — blocks harmful or age-inappropriate websites and keywords.

ACCESSIBILITY API USE
Haven uses Android's Accessibility Service to enforce the limits a parent sets. It detects which app is open, so it can block apps that are blocked or over their time limit. It also reads on-screen text, including web addresses and search words typed in browsers and other apps, and checks them against the blocked websites and keywords the parent set. Text is checked on the device and is never uploaded. The parent only receives the blocked website or keyword that matched, and when it happened.

OTHER PERMISSIONS
• Location, including background ("all the time") access — shown to the parent for location sharing and safe-zone alerts, even when Haven isn't open.
• Phone & SMS — used only when the child presses the Emergency button (or the power-button shortcut), to call or text the parent's designated emergency contact.
• Usage Access — lets Haven detect which app is open, to enforce time limits.
• Device Admin / Display over other apps — used to show the block screen and prevent a child from disabling Haven.

Haven is intended for a parent or legal guardian to install on a device belonging to their own child. All data is encrypted in transit and visible only to the linked parent account — never sold, shared with advertisers, or used for anything beyond the safety features described here and in our Privacy Policy.

Recent changes:
Updated permission consent for all permissions.
Update Accessibility video.