Gamified Screen Time Management for Kids

ScreenWise helps parents manage kids' screen time with smart limits, real-time controls, and rewards—promoting healthy habits and balanced digital use for the whole family.

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What Inspired Us

As parents navigating the digital age, we found it increasingly difficult to manage our children's screen time without constant arguments, guilt, or confusion. We realized we weren’t alone—many families struggle to set healthy digital boundaries. We wanted a solution that wasn’t just about restrictions, but about building positive habits. This inspired ScreenWise—an app that empowers both parents and kids to take control of screen use in a thoughtful and collaborative way.

What We Learned

Throughout this journey, we gained valuable insights into child psychology, digital wellness, and parental concerns. We studied how gamification and positive reinforcement are more effective than strict restrictions alone. We also learned the importance of designing a user experience that’s simple for parents yet engaging for children.

How We Built It

We started by interviewing parents to understand pain points, then wireframed key features like add child, smart scheduling the contracts and tasks, dashboard to show realtime stats. We built the MVP using

Frontend Framework: React Native, enabling a single codebase for iOS, Android, and web. Mobile Development Framework: Expo, providing a managed workflow for building, deploying, and iterating on React Native applications.

Styling: React Native's StyleSheet.create for component-scoped styling.

Backend & Database: Supabase, serving as the backend-as-a-service (BaaS) for PostgreSQL database, authentication, and real-time subscriptions.

Authentication: Supabase Auth, integrated for user sign-up, sign-in, and password management. Icons: Lucide React Native, providing a comprehensive set of customizable SVG icons.

What's next for Gamified Screen Time Management for Kids

The future for this app includes

  1. AI evaluation of the tasks - Example the app would let child upload the work they did inthe form of a picture and AI evaluates and gives points for it
  2. Support screen time, pock money, points etc. Tie up with toy shops like hamleys where these can be redeemed
  3. Dashboard Toy for Kids room - A Physical device at a low cost which can reflect real time points/ time earned by the kid and updates as and when they redeem it.

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