Aura Parents is a next-generation parental control app built to help families guide their children’s digital habits and ensure kid safety across all devices. It combines screen time control, online safety monitoring, and AI-powered wellbeing tools — so you can help your child thrive online and offline.
This all-in-one control app gives parents a clear view of how their child uses devices throughout the day. From screen time limits to social activity insights, Aura helps you create balance, set boundaries, and protect your family’s digital wellbeing.
Why Aura Parents Stands Out
Unlike traditional parental control apps, Aura combines screen time management with modern digital wellbeing tracking.
It gives parents a deeper understanding of how their kids engage online — and supports better communication between parent and child.
Receive expert insights and personalized tips designed by digital safety specialists to help your family build healthy and balanced screen time habits.
Comprehensive Parental Controls
Aura includes all the essential parental control tools you need:
• Content Filters – Block or limit harmful, explicit, or age-inappropriate content.
• Screen Time Limits – Set flexible, daily or app-specific limits to guide healthy screen time habits.
• Focus Time – Schedule distraction-free moments for study, family time, or bedtime.
• Pause the Internet® – Instantly disconnect a device with one tap to enforce your screen time rules.
Balance Summary
Gain a full overview of your child’s digital habits with Aura’s Balance Summary.
See how much time is spent on devices during the day or at night, track social engagement, and understand how online behavior affects wellbeing. Aura transforms data into clear insights so you can start meaningful conversations about healthy screen time and digital balance.
Social Persona and Patterns
Aura’s Social Persona feature helps you understand how your child socializes online.
With the Social Patterns Score, you can track changes in your child’s social activity and detect unusual shifts early.
AI Chat App Alerts
Aura’s AI-based monitoring system identifies risky chat interactions across popular apps.
It flags high-risk AI chat apps, analyzes conversation sentiment, and alerts you when a conversation or app may impact your child’s safety.
Smart Parenting Starts with Aura
With Aura Parents, you can:
• Manage screen time easily across all devices.
• Block harmful content and apps instantly.
• Track digital habits and social activity in real time.
• Get proactive alerts before issues become problems.
• Guide smarter device use through positive habits.
Aura Parents is built for modern families who want both freedom and protection.
Aura Parents' child safety features use a local VPN installed on a child's device to apply content blocking & time limits. To identify trends in online activities & provide personalized recommendations, Aura uses the Accessibility Service to securely capture data related to text input & identify apps where this typing occurs.
- Free trial: free of charge; no commitment; cancel anytime
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the trial period.
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to end of current period, and identify cost of renewal.
- Subscription price: $9.99/month or $107.99/year
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period.
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription.
Privacy Policy: https://www.aura.com/legal/privacy-policy
Terms of Service: https://aura.com/legal/service-terms
Not a place to provide feedback online and their Support said they couldn’t provide feedback, so maybe this will do it. Overall, great app and experience from a parents perspective. We’ve tried just about all of the services out there and this app is the most polished and user friendly. And it works. Plain and simple. Now for my feedback to the developers - hoping they see this. 1. If you’re only signing up for the parental options and not their entire suite of services, allow another guardian to be added to the account. Right now, you can only have one and that means sharing a login. Not a huge deal, but not ideal. If parents are separated or not on good terms, having an additional guardian login would be appreciated. 2. The Aura Keyboard is a cool way to capture social interactions and sentiments etc. Add the “swipe” option for those that like to use that while typing. 3. The list of pre-configured apps you can manage is fairly extensive, however, it doesn’t encompass all. Allow the ability to either add ones from the device, or provide suggestions back to the team on ones to add. Right now if it’s not available you have to allow websites and other workarounds. 4. When a child runs out of time allotment, allow them to make a request for bonus time instead of relying on the parent to see the notification and make adjustments. Just a “nice to have” option for the child.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review , truly we appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us and helps us to continuously improve the user experience.If you ever need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at 18335522123. We’re here to help!
It works until it doesn’t
ElizabethFerguson
Update: The developer responded to my comment and encouraged me to call Support again. I called and got an annoying AI assistant, but thankfully-the issue was finally fixed! We were forced to move to Aura when support was ended for Circle Parental Controls. For a while, it worked, and now, when my sons are off our home WiFi, most everything is blocked. They don’t have any internet when off home WiFi. This has been ongoing for 3 weeks with no resolution. My issue was escalated to the Engineering team and I was told to just keep checking for an app update. I need my kids to have access to their cellular network when off WiFi so this is not working for our family at all. I understand bugs but 3 weeks is too long to wait for a resolution, especially when I am paying a monthly fee for this service.
Developer Response
We are sorry to hear about the difficulties you've experienced with the app and appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback. Please email us at app-support@aura.com To best assist you, please email us at app-support@aura.com or reach out to us at 18335522123, so we can provide additional support. We’re here to help!
Not smart enough for teens
d.r.s54284
I set up my teen’s phone and within minutes she complained about the keyboard not functioning well. She figured out that it was Aura, removed the keyboard, and now it doesn’t give me insights. If this is a core function, the keyboard needs to work! Letters were stuck in all caps and there was no autocorrect. I would have been frustrated too! Beyond that, the insights take too long to populate. I was able to control almost everything that is offered in Aura in iPhone settings. I didn’t see the value. Setting up automatic shortcuts and another screen time app are helping more.
Developer Response
We are very sorry to hear about the frustrations you experienced with the keyboard functionality and the delay in insights. Your feedback regarding the user experience and the value of these features is incredibly important to us. We would appreciate the opportunity to assist you further and address your specific concerns. Please reach out to us at 1-833-552-2123 so our support team can provide additional guidance and help resolve these issues for you. Thank you for taking the time to share your review.
Has way more than Bark
Momera42
So far, I’m really liking this app. Setup was pretty straightforward, it has all the content filtering and screen time limits I need. You have to install the Aura keyboard, but that has the benefit of monitoring every message my son sends, regardless of the apps he’s using. Plus I can see when there are changes in the tone of the messages he sends. So far, so good.
Developer Response
We really appreciate the great feedback! We're glad the setup was straightforward and that our monitoring tools are hitting the mark for you. Please keep our number handy: 1-833-552-2123. Our Customer Care team is available 24/7 whenever you need us.
We've been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing stability to make your online experience more safe and secure. Thank you for choosing Aura Digital Security.
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Version 26.44.0
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