Everyone in the house is on their phone too much. Fixing it works better as a family than as a rule for the kids.
Dinner tables are quieter than they used to be. Not because anyone stopped caring, but because everyone's looking down. Kids scroll through TikTok between bites. Parents check email under the table. The phone sits at the center of the family like an uninvited guest who never leaves.
Most screen time tools treat this as a surveillance problem. Parent watches kid. Kid resents parent. Trust erodes. The phone wins.
Tapd flips it. The whole family joins one group. Your kid sees you put your phone down. You see them lock in for homework. The leaderboard shows who's actually logging focus hours this week.
Your kids already know when you're on your phone too much. They see it. You could install a blocker on their device and watch them resent it within a week. Or you could tap in next to them at the kitchen table and show them what putting the phone down actually looks like.
When a thirteen-year-old sees her dad's name on the leaderboard, it changes the conversation. It stops being "put your phone down" and starts being "let's both put our phones down."
Create a family group and invite everyone. Parents, kids, even grandparents. Everyone taps in on their own terms, but you all see the same leaderboard and Together Meter.
Your twelve-year-old blocks TikTok and YouTube during homework. You block email and Slack during family dinner. Each person chooses what to block and when. No one-size-fits-all restrictions.
A real-time view of who in your family is currently focused. When your son taps in to study, you see it. When your daughter finishes a session, the whole group knows. You know they're studying because the Together Meter says so. No need to walk in and check.
Place a Tapd tag on the kitchen table. Before dinner starts, everyone taps in. Phones go quiet. Conversations get louder. Thirty minutes of blocked apps, zero guilt, one shared ritual that sticks because everyone chose it.
Your kid taps in at their desk. Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat go dark. You can see on the Together Meter that they're locked in. No hovering. No arguing about whether they're actually studying. The data speaks.
Saturday morning family time. Everyone taps in together. An hour of board games, breakfast, or just being present without anyone drifting into their feed. By Sunday night the leaderboard shows four sessions you didn't have to ask for.
Clip a Tapd keychain to the rearview mirror. Family taps in when the car starts. Block the scroll, keep the music. Conversations happen when there's nothing else to do. Two hours later, nobody missed anything important on their feed.
Family mode has a single admin — the parent who sets up the group. An admin PIN locks all preset creation and edits, so nobody changes the rules without you.
All preset creation and edits require an admin PIN. Kids can tap in and use presets — but can't modify what's blocked or add new apps to the allowed list without the parent unlocking it first.
Set a daily focus expectation for each member individually. Your twelve-year-old gets a different target than your fifteen-year-old. The analytics daily goal bar for each member reflects the expectation you set — not a generic default.
If a family member falls behind their daily expectation, a red behind-schedule indicator appears. Toggleable so you can adjust the pressure for each person. A gentle signal, not an alarm — but visible when it matters.
Your family isn't a corporate org chart. These features reflect that.
See who's logging the most focus time this week. Healthy competition between siblings. Parents who tap in first tend to win the week.
Place tags around the house. Kitchen table, desks, bedside tables. One tap starts the session. One tap ends it. Simple enough for any age.
Block Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook during focus sessions. Productive apps like Khan Academy and Spotify stay open.
Track focus time per family member over days, weeks, months. See progress. See who hit a new streak this week instead of arguing about screen time reports.
Each member's analytics show a daily goal bar based on the expectation the admin set for them. When they hit it, they know. When they're behind, you know.
Long-term milestones that accumulate. Your family's total focus hours, longest streaks, most consistent week. Milestones your family earned together, sitting on a shelf that never stops growing.
The admin controls are there when you need them — but you don't have to use them. A household of friends, a couple, a pair of roommates holding each other accountable: family mode's single-group structure with a shared leaderboard works just as well for any small group that wants the tight-knit format without the complexity of collaborative mode's multi-group setup.
Turn off the behind-schedule alerts. Skip the daily expectations. Use it as a shared focus group with the option to flip admin features on later if the dynamic calls for it.
The first week, it feels like a game. Kids race each other on the leaderboard. Parents pretend they're not competitive, then quietly tap in an extra session before bed.
By the second week, it's a routine. The dinner tap becomes automatic. Homework sessions start without reminders. The Together Meter shows three family members focused at the same time, and nobody had to ask.
By the end of the month, nobody talks about screen time anymore. Your daughter mentions she finished a book. Your son says he's been sleeping better. You realize the puzzle on the coffee table got completed on a Saturday when everyone's phones were in the other room.
The Group plan supports up to 5 family members with 2 NFC tags and 3 keychains included. Place them where your family gathers. Tap in together.
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