Stories, news and videos unlock your child’s apps.
Emetli keeps the apps you choose locked until your child learns. Learning time unlocks play time - and it’s only spent while those apps are in use.
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Parents, sign inChoose the games and apps that should wait. Pick a whole category, like Games or Social, and apps you install later are covered too.
Turn on stories, kid news or language videos - whatever suits your child.
Every minute of reading adds a minute of play. The time only runs down while a locked app is in use, and the apps lock again when it runs out.
Setup is for a parent and takes about two minutes. Emetli itself never gets locked.
The apps you pick stay locked until today’s learning is done.
Every minute of reading adds a minute of play.
Short articles by topic, picked for your child’s age.
Short swipe-up videos teach the language that isn’t their main one.
Choose how much learning comes before play. Change it anytime.
On iPad, the picture sits on one page and the words on the other.
Emetli works on iPhone and iPad.
You set the rules once. Emetli does the reminding.
Settings sit behind a 4-digit parent PIN. Pip promises not to peek.
Your child sees one friendly countdown on the home screen. Activity screens show no timers, and kids never see earn rates.
Saved play time is only used while your child is in a locked app.
Add bonus time from the parent area, or answer a request for more time with your PIN.
Sign in to the Emetli parent website.
An app for iPhone and iPad that keeps the apps you choose locked until your child learns in Emetli - with stories, kid news or language videos. Learning time turns into play time.
By default, every minute of reading adds a minute of play, and language videos earn play time too: 2 minutes of watching for 1 minute of play. You can change the rate for each activity in the parent area, and your child never sees the rates.
No. Saved play time is only used while your child is in a locked app. When it runs out, the apps lock again.
The least your child does each day before apps unlock. You set it for each activity: off, or 5 to 120 minutes. It’s the same every day, resets at midnight, and those minutes still earn play time.
You pick your child’s main language: English or Español. Emetli and Pip talk to your child in it, and the language videos teach the other one.
iPhone with iOS 17.4 or later, and iPad with iPadOS 17.4 or later. Emetli uses Apple’s Screen Time to lock the apps you choose.
The parent area is behind a 4-digit PIN. If your child’s device uses a child account in your Family Sharing group, Screen Time access is protected, and Emetli can’t be deleted without your approval. On other devices, your child could delete Emetli or switch off its Screen Time access in Settings; from iOS and iPadOS 26.4, a Screen Time passcode guards that switch.
It can’t be reset. Delete Emetli and set it up again - it only takes a couple of minutes. Saved play time is lost, and you pick the apps to lock again.
Emetli is coming soon to the App Store, and it’s free.
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On the Emetli parent website.