Family Link is free, and for a single Android phone with a supervised Google account, it does a fair job on screen time. It thins out once your child has an iPhone, uses apps outside Google's ecosystem, or you want more than a Play Store age rating standing between them and adult content. Zaksha is a paid step up: category blocking on every device, an app that travels with the phone, and an alert the moment filtering stops.
Facts checked 7 September 2026.
Adult, gambling, social media, gaming, streaming and AI chatbots — each category one switch, set per child. Add your own sites to the block list.
A native app on iPhone and Android, a small agent on Windows, a configuration profile on Mac. Filtering travels with the device — mobile data, a friend's Wi-Fi, anywhere.
Switch filtering off and you get a WhatsApp message and push alert at once. On iPhone the child's apps lock until it's back on; on Android the fresh-phone setup can't be uninstalled. The honest limit: on iPhone, your Apple ID password can reset it.
Internet off at bedtime, on after homework. Time windows per day, set per child or per device, from one dashboard.
Zaksha has no per-app time limits, no location tracking and no message monitoring. Family Link's screen-time limits — daily budgets, bedtime, per-app timers — are genuinely good, and free. If that's your main need on a single Android phone, keep using it. Zaksha's job is category blocking that holds across every device your child actually uses.
Family Link's screen-time timers and Play Store approvals still work fine alongside Zaksha. Nothing about installing Zaksha requires removing Family Link.
Sign up, then install the app on Android and iPhone, or turn it on with a setting on Mac and Windows. Guided steps for every platform on the Get the app page.
Switch off adult content, gambling and whatever else you want blocked, then set the bedtime and study-hour windows per child.
Once Zaksha shows as connected on a device, remove its supervised Google account from Family Link's settings if you no longer need it running alongside.
If your child has one Android phone and your main concern is screen time, Family Link covers that for free. Switch to Zaksha, or add it alongside, once there's an iPhone in the mix, or you want category blocking rather than a Play Store age rating.
Yes. They don't conflict — Family Link keeps handling Play Store approvals and its own screen-time timers, and Zaksha handles category blocking and the cross-device rules Family Link doesn't reach.
On iPhone, switching filtering off locks the child's chosen apps until it's back on — the Screen Time passcode does the pinning, and only your Apple ID password can reset that, so keep it private. On Android, the standard install is tamper-resistant and alerts you the moment it's removed; the fresh-phone (device-owner) setup is tamper-proof — Zaksha can't be uninstalled from the phone at all.
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