What's in an activity report
Every evening, MyParental assembles your child's day into one clean summary: total screen time and how it compares to their limit, the top apps by minutes, browsing activity by category (including anything the web filter blocked), new app installs, and the day's places from location history. On Premium, a weekly report adds the trend lines — is screen time drifting up, did the new game eat the week, did the limits actually hold?
The report reads in about two minutes. That's a design goal, not an accident: the point is to replace both the anxious all-day spot-checking and the total fog, with one informed glance.
Why a summary beats a feed
Raw monitoring data is a trap. Give a worried parent a live feed of everything and they'll either drown in it or, worse, start treating every data point as evidence of something. A daily summary works differently: it shows patterns — where the time goes, what changed since last week — which is what parenting decisions actually need.
Patterns are also fairer to your child. One long gaming session on a rainy Saturday means nothing; the same number every day for three weeks means something. Reports make that distinction visible, and protect kids from rules made in a moment of alarm over a single unrepresentative day.
The report as a conversation, not a verdict
The families who get the most from activity reports share them. Try it: once a week, look at the weekly report with your child. Let them narrate it — "that spike was the school project, the new app is what everyone's playing" — and decide together whether anything needs adjusting. Ten minutes, and three things happen: your data gets context that no app can supply, your child learns to read their own habits (the actual goal), and monitoring stops being something done to them and becomes something the family does together.
The reports also tell you which other tools you need. A bottomless app shows up in the top-apps list before you'd ever think to set a per-app budget. Late-night usage shows up in the timeline before you'd think to set a bedtime schedule. Most families set their rules after two weeks of reports — and set far better ones for it.
What reports deliberately don't include
MyParental reports show categories, durations and patterns — not the content of your child's private messages and not a keystroke-by-keystroke replay of their day. That's a deliberate line. Reading a child's conversations wholesale teaches them to hide things, breaks the trust the whole system depends on, and in most cases tells parents nothing that patterns wouldn't. We built the reports to give you enough to parent with, and your child enough privacy to grow in.
Free vs Premium
The Free plan includes the daily report. Premium adds the weekly report with trends, browsing-category detail, and the full app usage breakdowns behind every number.
📲 How to set up Activity Reports
- Download MyParental from the App Store or Google Play and create your free parent account.
- Install the app on your child's phone and link it with the one-time pairing code.
- Switch on Activity Reports from the parent dashboard — the app guides you through any permissions.