Raxak's Android app is live today. The iPhone app is being built around the same conviction — that a child's screen discipline starts with the parent's — on Apple's own Screen Time framework. This page is the honest version of what that means: what we're building, what will work differently from Android, and how to hear when it ships.
Status: in development. Not yet on the App Store, and we're not promising a date. Apple has approved our request to use its Family Controls framework; App Review is the next gate.
Tell me when it ships →Kids notice the family pattern. When parents scroll freely and only the child is restricted, limits feel like punishment and the rules never stick. "Why do I have a limit but you don't?" is a fair question, and no blocking app can win it for you.
So Raxak for iPhone is designed as a three-step journey — you first, then one standard for the family, then firm boundaries for your child — instead of a control panel pointed at the kid.
See your own scroll time, unlocks and late-night use. Set one gentle rule for yourself and feel the first win before you ask anything of your child.
Turn your progress into rules everyone can see — bedtime, study time, app limits — that apply to the whole house, firmer for children and gentler for adults.
Add your child's iPhone and extend the same fair system with real controls: a daily limit, bedtime, blocked apps and categories, and Apple's web filter.
The phone panels above are design concepts, not screenshots. Real screens will be published here before launch.
Everything below exists in the iPhone codebase today and is being tested. Nothing here is a promise about launch scope — features can still be cut or reshaped by App Review.
Your own screen time, pickups and late-night use on the device you're holding, summarised into a 0–100 Wellness Score that measures you against your own goals — the same idea as on Android, adapted to Apple's reporting rules.
Start a session and your distracting apps go quiet while you work. You start it, you end it, and it never touches anyone else's device.
On your own iPhone, a dismissible pause you can override. On a child's iPhone, a real shield: apps and categories go dark at bedtime and when the daily limit is used up, enforced by Apple's Screen Time framework rather than by our app watching the screen.
Pick apps or whole categories with Apple's own picker. Blocked apps show a Raxak shield screen explaining what happened and why — no countdown tricks, no shaming.
Escalating, non-blocking nudges when a feed app has had you for too long — and a launch check-in that asks whether you meant to open it. Built for adults first, so it never feels like a punishment when it reaches a teen.
A Sunday summary of the family's week, mirroring the weekly digest Android parents already get.
iPhone apps cannot read messages, and we won't pretend otherwise. Instead, Raxak guides you to switch on Apple's built-in Communication Safety and Communication Limits for your child, and records that you've done it.
Account and child-profile changes are gated by Face ID or Touch ID, falling back to your device passcode.
Android lets a parental-control app see which app is open, read a browser's address bar, and notice new installs. Apple's Screen Time framework deliberately doesn't. It enforces limits for apps like Raxak, but it keeps the details on the device. That makes some Android features impossible to replicate honestly on iPhone, so we're not going to claim them.
| Capability | Android today | iPhone (planned) |
|---|---|---|
| Daily limit & bedtime | Yes — hard block on the child's device | Yes — enforced by Apple's Screen Time shield |
| App blocking | Yes — by app or category, new installs alert you | Yes — by app or category via Apple's picker; no new-install alerts |
| Per-app usage on the parent's phone | Yes — full report per child | Partial — Apple keeps app-level detail on the child's device; parents get day totals and the Wellness Score |
| Web filtering | Yes — block any site, adult and gambling seed list | Partial — Apple's adult-website filter; no custom block list |
| Browsing activity | Yes (premium), with Teen Privacy Mode | No — no API exists |
| Harmful-content alerts | Yes — on-device keyword scan, alert only | No — guided setup of Apple's Communication Safety instead |
| Uninstall protection | Yes — device admin, removable only with the family PIN | Detection only — Raxak tells you if it's removed; Apple's Screen Time passcode is the real lock |
| Pause ("I need you now") | Yes — free | Not planned at launch |
| To-dos | Yes — free | Not planned at launch |
| Shared phone (parent + child profiles) | Yes | No — Apple ties the role to the device |
At launch, each platform will pair within itself: Android parents with Android children (as today), and iPhone parents with iPhone children. Apple's framework requires the parent's and child's devices to share an Apple Family, which an Android phone can't be part of — so an Android parent won't be able to set rules on an iPhone child, and an iPhone parent won't see an Android child's data.
Cross-platform families are the most common request we hear, and the backend was chosen with that headroom in mind. It is not on the launch list, and we'll say clearly here if that changes.
One email when Raxak for iPhone is on the App Store. Nothing before, nothing after.