Parental Control App: Kidoks

kidoks is a parental-control app for parents and legal guardians managing their own children's Android devices. Parents can pair a child device, set daily screen-time limits and schedules, choose allowed or blocked apps, remotely lock or unlock the device, configure purchase protection and web-safety rules, and view the child device's latest location when location safety is enabled. On a paired child device, kidoks uses Android AccessibilityService only after the parent or guardian enables it. Accessibility access lets kidoks detect the app or supported browser currently on screen so it can enforce parent-selected app blocks, daily limits and schedules, protect purchase screens, and identify blocked website attempts. App and blocked safety-event information may be sent to the linked parent. Accessibility access is not used for advertising, and kidoks does not use it to read passwords or private messages. Web Safety uses Android VpnService to create a local, on-device DNS-filtering tunnel. It checks requested domains against parent-managed safety rules, forwards permitted DNS requests using encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS, and reports blocked-domain safety events to the linked parent. kidoks is not a general-purpose VPN, does not change the device's location, does not inspect page content, and does not redirect or monetize network traffic. When Location Safety is enabled on the child device, kidoks can collect precise location in the background, including when the app is closed or not in use, to show the latest child-device location to the linked parent. Location sharing runs with a persistent Android notification, is used only for the family safety feature, and is not used for advertising. kidoks is designed for transparent parent/guardian-managed child safety. Active background monitoring, location sharing and web-safety filtering use visible Android notifications. The app is not intended for covert monitoring of adults or anyone without authorization.