OurPact – Parental Control App GPS Family Locator
LifestyleEturi Corp.
Family Locator, App Blocking, Screen Time Allowance, Text Blocking & More!
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don't do it, it's useles
If you want your child to hate you then this is the way to go. You might as well just take their phone away, it's much better then having ourpact turn off, mess up all your apps and then having to go and fix them again
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I don't normally leave reviews, but this is the most useless app I've ever used. First off, it scattered all the apps on my iphone that were organized in folders after the block was done. Now I have to spend a chunk of my time reorganizing the apps or else I'll probably have to erase and reset my content. Second, it was easy to remove the management in the settings. Third, it's obviously a money grab and you have to pay for most of the features. Anyone with ios is better off using screentime.
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Works well. Easy to use and blocks my kid from using her phone when I don't want her to. Only 1 stars though because i find the developers greedy in wanting $7 per MONTH to use the premium features. If developers set a fair rate of say a dollar a month or $10 per year they would get lots more upgrading to premium. As it is take up will be minimal. Stop being greedy developers. Is $1 per month from millions of people not enough?
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Don't waste your time. It's only useful if you pay a monthly fee. I downloaded family link instead FOR FREE and I have so many options to control my son's ipad. All you can do with the free is set the sleepy time (ex. 9pm-6am). Which you can do on the iPad itself. Save yourself the time and download a different app. This one sucks.
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OK at 1st then issues started
Started out with the free account but ran out of free uses (they limit how many times you can shut off your child’s applications). So, I upgraded to Ourpact Plus so I could manually shut off my sons account. Everything worked great until I started to notice issues. First, when you click the button to disable applications you trust that the action was completed. I would wake up the next morning and log back in just to find that it was never shut off and my son could have been up all night. Second, there were two instances when I had to reinstall the application on my sons phone (repair) because it would freeze and leave me unable to control my sons application. Finally, I lost all faith in ourpact when our son was grounded for a week (kept his phone but had no apps). Looked over his shoulder and saw him on Snapchat—how? Long story short, if you google how to get around ourpact there is a step by step guide for kids to disable certain features of ourpact (making your parents think it works but it really doesn’t). Support is via email only. They only send generic messages that are very scripted. Though scripted the response does come quickly. Ourpact will definitely work for younger kids but not older kids that know their way around devices. To be honest, all they need to do is go into settings and you can disable the entire ourpact system with one click. I think the application is great if it works but there are a ton of back doors to fix.
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Good App, Worrying Possibilities
I don’t plan to rate this app too lowly, as genuine work went into it, and it does work very well for what it is. But I do want to leave this here for any parents using this, as I’ve seen some very concerning reviews. I am sixteen. Before anything is said in offense, I asked my parents to set screentime on my devices regularly when I was in my younger teens. My parents still use this app very sparingly with me, by my own request, but I’m mostly self-regulating by this age. I’m all for kids taking care with how much time they take with technology, and for it to be monitored a certain degree until they’re old enough. Safety does matter, as well as addiction to screens. But if you download this, I do ask sincerely that you use it for good. Many features of this app feel not like discipline, but controlling; features like the screenshotting of a activity, location tracking, etc. They definitely could be useful, as it’s important to know where your child is in case of emergency or otherwise, for their safety. But using it too frequently as an excuse to blow up at your child when they don’t share something and feel far bigger than them, something which I’ve seen happen with these types of apps, can be damaging. They will learn to hide from you. Tracking their moves through screenshots add in a severe lack of privacy for children that need a certain degree of privacy to mature healthily. In a healthy, functioning home in which a child feels safe, your child will tell you all these things that you are prying from them. My mother owns a daycare, I work with kids on my off time from school and study. To hover over your children at all times will black out areas of their essential development and dictate negatively how they interact in the future, how they survive and socialize. If you teach your child, not just through words but actions, that coming to you with even the worst will mean you plan to help them work things out, and give them the tools to do so on their own in the future— rather than yelling at them, growing angry with them etc.— then they will tell you things, there will be no need to helicopter over them or monitor them obsessively. If your child is hiding too much from you, that is your doing, whether you realize or not. I say this as a teenager in a healthy home, with good grades, work ethic, a healthy social life, and a strong relationship with my parents— all while still someone who has seen firsthand the way this can negatively affect my peers and children I work with. This is a good app, but I hope there will possibly be more future prevention to help this from getting into the wrong hands, i.e helicopter parents and abusive parents. It seems to be happening far too often.
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Premium install was a nightmare
A friend of mine suggested this app and after a quick search I found the reviews over were good so I thought I’d try it out. The free version scrambled my kids phone and caused a huge argument. The premium version said it would eliminate that and gave all the benefits I was looking for so I decided to upgrade. The price seems steep at 6.99 a month but I figured this would still be money well spent. I tried for two days to install the premium version and ran across multiple issues. I could not find basic answers in the FAQ section which is odd because so many of these reviews state having issues and questions installing the Premium version you would think there would be some “canned” troubleshooting tips. I reached out to support via email (I couldn’t find a phone number) and got a generic response saying please provide ya more information. I provided additional information of my problem but I haven’t heard back from them yet so I deleted the app. It’s unfortunate. Reading through the reviews here it looks like overwhelmingly people struggle to install the premium app but once it’s done the results seem good. For an app that I’m paying for, especially that much, the install should be easier OR support/directions or trouble shooting should be easier to access especially since the problems seem to be common and known. Too bad -
⚠️⚠️iOS 14⚠️⚠️
I will say the app does it’s job to keep kids from looking at certain things or using certain apps after a certain time. Something that I don’t like is how it doesn’t really work with new features in the iOS update. I’ve seen a lot of complaints about this so I decided to check it out myself. Lots of people want to have an aesthetic look on their phone. In order to do so, they customize it with widgets and they put new icons on their apps. However, it doesn’t allow you to put on app icons. The only way you were able to have these icons on your phone with ourpact is when your phone is unblocked. Some parents put controls on that allow their kids to have more time rather than having less. But then it’s also vice versa. This app does it’s job but I personally feel like you should at least add a new update to ourpact and ourpact Junior that allows kids to do the features of iOS 14. If you think about it kids, still want their phone to feel and look normal. A good majority of them are already embarrassed to say that their mom or dad puts restrictions on their phone. If you could at least add an update that works with any new update from this point on I would be very grateful for that. If not, I really don’t think people are getting their moneys worth. -
Disappointed
I had high hopes for this app but after so many issues and seeing the app fail to deliver on its most basic of premises, I have decided to cancel my premium membership and delete the app altogether. I had so many issues trying to download the premium version onto my sons iPhone, it would never let me install it on his phone. It never gave me a reason why it failed or gave me any clue as to what was the issue, it just gave me an error message and would never work, no matter what I tried. On my other sons phone, it somehow allowed him to download and create an Instagram account, although I had every block specific to Instagram in place on my controls. I should also add that my son didn’t look up how to get around ourpact controls, he didn’t really care either way about Instagram and was just fine deleting it after I found it, the phone just didn’t give him any sort of block when he went to download it. I have basically been paying for nothing - since the most basic control (bedtime limits) is the only thing that worked and I could do that on my own from our family Apple account. I would love to have everything this app promises, it would be a game changer for our family. I hope they figure out all the kinks. -
Kids figured out how to disable and help desk is difficult.
I have found this app to be very difficult. We’ve had it for 8 mo. and We just cancelled premium. Before going into other issues the main reason we cancelled is bc my 10 yo has figured out how to unpair her device making this app useless. She set out on a mission (unannounced to me) and pretty sure it only took her a day to successfully unpair. OurPact did send a notification so I knew immediately, but I can’t constantly re-pair devices, especially as long as that process takes. If your kid doesn’t figure out how to unpair, Other problems are... Mainly the lack of ability to speak with someone at help desk. I initially had a good bit of trouble pairing my kids devices and help desk is only though email so the canned responses took weeks to get a resolution for issues they admitted they had been having. After finally getting devices paired they somehow disconnected again after a month or so. After the devices disconnected I had basic access, but I had to go through the process to set up all over again through the same pairing issues that they admitted again were kinks on their end. All could likely be fixed with a more efficient help desk process. -
Plus: simple user interface, important functions contained. minus:Not seeing activity is not good, if already measured, why no report? Complicated set up, with cabel, in 2021? The kid has to start the play time and stop is unrealistic. Measure always and stop of run out the time.
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don't do it, it's useles
If you want your child to hate you then this is the way to go. You might as well just take their phone away, it's much better then having ourpact turn off, mess up all your apps and then having to go and fix them again
AppGrooves User
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I don't normally leave reviews, but this is the most useless app I've ever used. First off, it scattered all the apps on my iphone that were organized in folders after the block was done. Now I have to spend a chunk of my time reorganizing the apps or else I'll probably have to erase and reset my content. Second, it was easy to remove the management in the settings. Third, it's obviously a money grab and you have to pay for most of the features. Anyone with ios is better off using screentime.
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Works well. Easy to use and blocks my kid from using her phone when I don't want her to. Only 1 stars though because i find the developers greedy in wanting $7 per MONTH to use the premium features. If developers set a fair rate of say a dollar a month or $10 per year they would get lots more upgrading to premium. As it is take up will be minimal. Stop being greedy developers. Is $1 per month from millions of people not enough?
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Don't waste your time. It's only useful if you pay a monthly fee. I downloaded family link instead FOR FREE and I have so many options to control my son's ipad. All you can do with the free is set the sleepy time (ex. 9pm-6am). Which you can do on the iPad itself. Save yourself the time and download a different app. This one sucks.
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OK at 1st then issues started
Started out with the free account but ran out of free uses (they limit how many times you can shut off your child’s applications). So, I upgraded to Ourpact Plus so I could manually shut off my sons account. Everything worked great until I started to notice issues. First, when you click the button to disable applications you trust that the action was completed. I would wake up the next morning and log back in just to find that it was never shut off and my son could have been up all night. Second, there were two instances when I had to reinstall the application on my sons phone (repair) because it would freeze and leave me unable to control my sons application. Finally, I lost all faith in ourpact when our son was grounded for a week (kept his phone but had no apps). Looked over his shoulder and saw him on Snapchat—how? Long story short, if you google how to get around ourpact there is a step by step guide for kids to disable certain features of ourpact (making your parents think it works but it really doesn’t). Support is via email only. They only send generic messages that are very scripted. Though scripted the response does come quickly. Ourpact will definitely work for younger kids but not older kids that know their way around devices. To be honest, all they need to do is go into settings and you can disable the entire ourpact system with one click. I think the application is great if it works but there are a ton of back doors to fix.
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