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 With the Habyts Points system, you can let your kids automatically unlock Bonus Play Time. Find out how with our video guide: 

 Habyts is packed full of handy tools and features to help families manage their screen time. Habyts Head of Customer Support and Success, Vic has put together a video guide to show where to find Tools in Habyts and how to use them. 

“Children want the challenge of difficult tasks – just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.” James Dyson Tasks is a Habyts feature which helps to teach kids good, responsible behaviour, empowering them to take a bigger role in family life by setting, tracking and rewarding Tasks and chores. It’s popular … Continued

 Family View provides an instant snapshot of family activity on one screen. Find out how with our video guide:

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down – especially when it comes to screen time and chores! At Habyts, our core philosophy has always been to help parents teach kids positive screen time habits. That’s why we work so hard to create tools like  Tasks and Rewards, Five More Minutes and Bonus … Continued

Sticking to a diet, making yourself go out for a run, sorting out that messy cupboard and managing screen time… What do they all have in common? They all require a bit of motivation and self-discipline.   One of the best ways to keep motivated is being able to see results. With a diet, you can … Continued

Ever wonder how long you spend on your devices outside of work? As a parent, you try hard to encourage responsible screen time. But if you can’t lead by example, it undermines your position. Most of us believe we have it under control until we actually see how long we spend on our devices. It can … Continued

It can be a struggle keeping track of a large family’s screen time, or a medium-sized family come to think of it. And small families don’t exactly have it easy! What we are saying is that when it comes to screen time, keeping track of all the kids (and parents!) across all their different devices … Continued

When it comes to your kids, how do you balance active involvement with respectful distance? Just let Habyts help!  Introducing our new Smart Notifications to make life easier. ⌛️ John has run out of Play Time Allowance today. See how much time Bonus Time is available today. Michael completed task: “Tidy room” for you to … Continued

While everybody was eating too much and playing with their shiny new presents over the holiday break, our dedicated, diligent, development elves were hard at work in the Habyts grotto (we did let them out briefly for half a mince pie). They have been crafting loads of new features, bug fixes and improving the user experience, based … Continued