Carrots&Cake: Parental Control 4+
Healthy screen time management
MagicHabits Labs Limited
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Put an end to screen time tantrums and hours wasted streaming and gaming. Now kids learn first and play later.
Awarded the Mom's Choice Award, and Family Choice Award & recognized member of the kidSAFE Seal Program, Carrots&Cake makes kids’ screen time healthier, learning-focused, and age-appropriate.
With Carrots&Cake, parents select their kids’ favorite learning activities, choosing from any app on the AppStore or any website. When kids turn on their devices they must complete the learning activities — Carrots — before they can enjoy free time — Cake.
With Carrots&Cake you can:
Enhance Learning and Balance Play
Learn First, Play Later: Rest easy knowing your kids will engage with educational and homework apps (Carrots) before accessing entertainment (Cake).
Fully-Customizable Learning Schedule: Choose from any of the educational apps available on the AppStore. Carrots&Cake is compatible with all learning and homework websites allowing you to tailor your child’s learning to their age and interests.
AI Learning Companion: Introduce your children to AI with Nibbles, our friendly AI bunny, who motivates and guides kids through educational concepts with interactive quizzes and fun activities, all in a kid-friendly, age appropriate manner.
High Quality Streaming Content: Replace auto-played junk content with high-quality, kid-safe, educational videos that challenge kids’ thinking and lengthen their attention spans.
Nurture Cognitive and Digital Skills
Micro-Learning: Encourage small but consistent daily lessons for long-term educational benefits and habit formation.
Digital Literacy Tutorials: Introduce digital comprehension skills through a kid-friendly eight episode program.
Audio-Player: Kids wind down for bedtime with age-appropriate stories and songs.
Safe and Managed Digital Environment
Focused Learning Time: Distracting content, games, videos, and alerts blocked during Carrot Time.
Content Filtering: Adult websites are always blocked. An optional block of browsers like Safari during Carrot Time.
Kid-safe Online Experience: Enjoy peace of mind with a safe, restricted digital environment for your kids.
Carrots&Cake is a listed member of the kidSAFE Seal Program
Personalized and Flexible Parental Controls
Custom Schedules: Tailor screen time schedules to fit your family's routine, balancing educational time and free playtime.
Pause and Play on Demand: Easily pause and resume the Carrots&Cake schedule with a touch of a button..
Carrots&Cake was developed to answer families’ growing concern around screen time. Kids spend an average of 5 - 8 hours on devices daily. Anxiety and depression in kids has increased and self-confidence has decreased.
Kids become determined to engage in forbidden activities. They bypass restrictions and hack out of control. Kids suffer tantrums because allowances aren't made for their developing brains and executive function control.
The Carrots&Cake approach benefits kids’ development of the prefrontal cortex. It balances dopamine levels, introduces delayed gratification, and develops self-control, resilience, and grit while countering the persuasive design of apps that keep kids hooked.
In our app, preset and recommended websites, content, and apps are free. However, if you choose to add paid educational apps or use paid content from other apps and websites, you will incur charges. Additionally, some apps and content you include in your app schedule may require separate subscriptions on their respective platforms.
For more insights, browse: carrotsandcake.com/faq
Have a question? Contact our friendly team at: support@carrotsandcake.com
For the Terms of Use, please check out Apple Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://carrotsandcake.com/privacy-policy/
What’s New
Version 2.4.0
Watch videos and listen to podcasts to earn more carrots and climb the leaderboard! Did you know the top 3 players at the end of each leaderboard get rewarded with Robux? Let’s go!
Ratings and Reviews
No more fighting
I've used the app with my 2 kids. My 9-year-old does math and piano as her carrots and my 7-year-old does reading, math, and meditation! I'm so happy that the eduation/piano apps I paid money for ages ago are are finally being used. Also, when their cake time finishes they know that their online time is done for the day and we've stopped fighting and negotiating over extra time. I feel more relaxed now and less guilty when they are on screens.
Outstanding resource!
As a former school teacher and current parent coach and educator, I am thrilled this app is available! It addresses many of the pain points parents face (nagging, screen time) while also instilling helpful habits for children (learning to manage urges, short term gratification and impulse control). I recommend it to many clients. Thank you!
App Malfunctions Constantly
I love the premise of this app, but in practice it’s rather horrible. In setting up the schedule the pictures keep resetting and would frequently show the wrong picture confusing my child. Sometimes they’d be in for double the amount of carrot time and it still wouldn’t unlock the other apps. Sometimes I’d have two carrot apps, they’d finish the first but the second was locked so they couldn’t even access it. I even tried to get around that by electing those two carrot apps to be accessible at all time, but they were still locked. I reached out to customer service but no one ever responded.
App Privacy
The developer, MagicHabits Labs Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- MAGICHABITS LABS LIMITED
- Size
- 214.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2023. Carrots & Cake
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Yearly $59.99
- Yearly (Auto Renew) $49.99
- Monthly $9.99
- One Month (Auto Renew) $9.99
- Quarterly $24.99
- 7-day FreeTrial Concierge Plan $24.99
- Three Months (Auto Renew) $24.99
- Carrots&Cake $59.99
- 3-month Free Trial Monthly $9.99
- 7-day Free Trial Special Offer $17.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.