For families with kids 7–14

Less scrolling. More learning. No more fights.

Before any screen time, your kid learns something real about how the world works, then earns time on the apps you choose. You set the price and the daily limit. The app holds the line, so you don't have to.

Join the waitlist How the trade works

iPad first, then iPhone and Android. 7-day free trial at launch. No ads, no strangers, no streaks.

How the trade works

Learning buys screen time. You set the rate.

1

Pick a Discovery

Why the Moon changes shape. Where sugar goes in water. How a camel goes a week without a drink. Four short paragraphs, written for their age, checked against a source by a human before any child sees it.

2

Answer three questions

Wrong is fine. They get the why, not a buzzer. Finish and the Joules land, their Mini hops, and a day of three Discoveries pays a bonus.

3

Spend the Joules

Every Discovery pays 50 Joules, and five Joules buy a minute on the apps you chose, so one Discovery is 10 minutes. It works through Apple's Screen Time or Android's lock. Or they spend Joules on a new Mini instead. Then they teach you at dinner for sixty more.

Why we built it

The screen isn't the problem. The screen being free is.

44%

of Canadian kids stayed inside the screen-time guidelines in both 2019 and 2023. Only 12% stayed inside in neither year.

80% vs 67%

reported excellent or very good mental health. Kids inside the guidelines versus kids outside them. That's a link, not proof screens cause it.

520 → 507

Canada's average PISA reading score, 2018 to 2022. Math fell from 512 to 497. Scores dropped in most countries over the same years.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth, released March 2026 · OECD PISA 2022. Every number in the app carries its source the same way.

Meet the Minis

Earned by learning. Never bought.

Capy is free on day one. The rest unlock with XP, and Joules buy their gear. Nothing in the app is for sale for money.

CapyLevel 1
SproutLevel 2
PolarLevel 3
LumenLevel 4
NimbusLevel 5
ShadowLevel 6

Built for COPPA and PIPEDA

You hold the account. They never see a login.

Parental consent is recorded and confirmed by email before anything is collected. Export or delete everything from the parent sheet, any time.

  • Keeps: a nickname, an age band, which Discoveries they finished, Joules earned and spent.
  • Never: their name, birthday, photo, location, contacts, messages, or the list of apps you limit.
  • Never shows: an ad, a stranger, a streak.
  • Every Discovery lists its sources and the reviewer who approved it.

Pricing at launch

About 27¢ a day. Less than one tutoring session a month.

$99.99/ year

$8.33 a month. Saves $55 compared with paying monthly. 7-day free trial.

$12.99/ month

Month to month. Cancel any time.

$249.99once

Lifetime. Costs the same as 2½ years of yearly, then it's free for as long as SmartMins exists.

Every plan covers every child in the family. Prices in US dollars. In Canada: CA$139.99 a year, CA$17.99 a month, or CA$349.99 once. Billed through the App Store or Google Play; other countries see local prices there. Founding families on the waitlist get a launch offer before anyone else.

Be a founding family.

We'll email you once, when the TestFlight opens, and once more at launch. Nothing else.