17 Key features ScreenCoach has over other Screen Time management solutions

Before creating ScreenCoach, its inventor and co-founder tested the leading screen time management solutions and found that none met his family’s needs.

Traditional solutions simply restrict screen time. Children have little motivation to do anything else, so daily arguments over screen time still occur—something both parents and children hate. Parents are left playing the role of the “screen time police,” while children often rebel against the restrictions.

ScreenCoach bridges the gap between screen time management and reward systems - and adds much more. It teaches and rewards healthy routines, positive behaviour and responsible decision-making. By earning and saving screen time Tokens and pocket money Gems, children also learn delayed gratification and financial literacy.

ScreenCoach helps children develop healthy habits and gradually manage their own screen time. It consistently enforces the rules, becoming the “bad cop” and reducing family conflict so parents can focus on a more positive relationship with their children.

ScreenCoach offers many innovative features that set it apart, with even more planned for the future.

These key features are summarised below:

1. The capability to track a child’s screen time across almost all popular devices including iOS, Android, Mac, PC - even when the device is offline! This solves many parent’s dilemmas associated with the device “merry-go-round.” This occurs when time is up on one device and the child simply switches to another one.
2. Time discounts if more than one device is used at the same time (most kids do this!)
3. The incentive for children to earn more screen time using advanced task management with approval workflows, whereby time earned (tokens) can be saved for future redemption. Even set up recurring tasks and reminders
4. Shared devices: ScreenCoach tracks and manages individual screen time on shared devices, whereas other solutions assume that each device is exclusively used by just one child.
5. ScreenCoach works online & offline.

Simple router-based solutions that block the Internet just result in today’s technology-savvy children finding workarounds, such as using their cell phone connection in lieu of Wi-Fi, playing games offline or watching previously downloaded content.

5. ScreenCoach works with any Internet connection.

Some solutions use VPNs which cause other issues including your apps thinking that they are not in your own country!

6. Children are empowered they can fully/semi self manage

in Auto pilot mode - some children who earn the parent’s trust can self-manage the activities you want to allow,
whereas other children in the same family may continue to require parental approval before they receive their tokens and gems for completing desirable activities.

7. A comprehensive pocket money management system is built directly into the ScreenCoach app. It shows a history of all expenses and deposits, including recurring expenses and deposits! Kids can enter their own expenses
8. Kids can earn Screen time tokens & pocket money gems for the same activity
9. Behavior change features. Our smart rewards feature awards bonuses to reinforce/encourage new and desirable behaviors, such as performing a chore without being asked! This encourages responsibility, self-reliance, and leadership early-on.
10. Context-sensitive rule creation (modes) is a unique feature of ScreenCoach. For example, a child can continue to use applications Microsoft Word/ Excel  but will not have access to gaming apps while they are doing their homework. You can even have some modes like homework mode that won't consume any of the kids screen time!
11. Gamified fun approach to managing the rewards kids can earn tokens and gems so it is engaging like a game , each child can have different minutes per token
12. Delayed gratification, ScreenCoach teaches children how to save their Screen Time Tokens for future use and to save their Gems to cash in for pocket money
13. The flexibility and dynamic nature of ScreenCoach allows for us to support individual parenting philosophies. No other platform offers such an unprecedented degree of customization and configurability on a child-by-child basis.
14. Recurring activities with reminders including check lists for bigger tasks, includes daily, every 2 days, every 2nd week (helps co-parenting families)
15. Activities with consequences, if not done on time block all / some apps or loose the rewards
16. Competition activities, where the first child that completes it get the rewards & the others miss out!,
17. GOALS! Add goals that kids can work towards, they unlock them with their earned/saved gems (coming in August 2026)
18. Manage TVs & connected devices (optional extra: requires purchase of hardware)

This beta solution allows you to manage PlayStation and Xbox or streaming service devices on supported TVs. Time spent on the TV accumulates towards the Child use across all other devices managed by ScreenCoach

Note: Some other solutions have some limited features that of ScreenCoach, but no single other solution even have a few of these features above.

Updated on: 28/07/2026