# Blocking YouTube Shorts in Tigrinya: a parental-control app from a Calgary diaspora community · Mobile app

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> The founder is from Calgary's Eritrean community. They posted TikToks in their native language, then recruited accountants, media accounts, and mom bloggers from the community to share them. Canada's parenting chart has a low bar: a few hundred installs was enough to reach the top 10.

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Mama Kids Control · Billion Tech

# Blocking YouTube Shorts in Tigrinya: a parental-control app from a Calgary diaspora community

**What it is** An Android parental-control app. It doesn't block YouTube outright, only Shorts, specific channels and videos with blocked keywords. Keywords can be written in Tigrinya or Amharic. After a 7-day trial it's $2.99 a month.

**Why it took off** The founder is from Calgary's Eritrean community. They posted in their mother tongue on TikTok, then brought in accountants, media accounts and mom creators from the community to reshare. Canada's parenting charts have a low bar, and a few hundred installs was enough to reach the top 10.

**C** **How you could copy it** If you're in a diaspora community, first build a free tool for a native-language need to earn trust, then push a small subscription tool. Explain the hardest step in a native-language tutorial, get local businesses to cross-promote you, and aim for the category chart in a small country.

C grade: the traction came from the founder's personal network inside the community, which outsiders can't access. Volume is small, price is low, and the ceiling is the size of one community. Family Link and Play's accessibility policy also press down on it. It's worth studying the playbook, but following this app on its own isn't worth the time. Still almost nobody knows about it

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-09-27 · 11-07 installs 1,937

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-11-01 → 2026-11-07 (7 days, 7 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

Mama Kids Control is an Android parental control app from Billion Tech Inc., a small outsourcing shop in Calgary, Canada. It doesn't block YouTube outright. It blocks Shorts, specific channels, and videos and searches containing specified words, which can be written in Tigrinya or Amharic. In early November it hit #6 on the Canada Google Play Parenting free chart, but total installs are still under 2,000. It isn't a product that broke out on its own. What's worth looking at is the playbook: someone inside a diaspora community used their native language and their circle of acquaintances to push a tool onto the chart for very little money.

### An accounting firm is promoting a parental control app

On Nov 2, 2026, KAL Service, a Calgary tax-prep firm serving Eritrean and Ethiopian immigrants, posted a video to its TikTok account (about 5,000 followers). The tags were #mama kids control, then #accountant #taxpreparer, and it @'d four accounts: the app's founder Mili Measho, a community media account called ERI INVESTING MEDIA, a blogger named Semhar W, and a local video production company. The video got 15.5k views and 580 shares (TikTok, 11-06).

The accounting firm usually posts about tax filing, new tax credits, and roofing jobs. It posted for a parental control app because these accounts already sit in the same circle. In early October, Mili had promoted a Calgary driving school with a video that @-mentioned this same group of names.

That week, installs on Google Play went from 548 (11-01) to 1,755 (11-05).

### What it is

The store page's first line is blunt: "You don't have to block YouTube completely. Parents can choose what to restrict, and kids can keep watching what's allowed." Features include:

- Block YouTube Shorts

- Block videos and searches containing specified words, which can be written in English, Tigrinya, Amharic, or Arabic

- Block specific channels, video downloaders, and installation actions, and block external links and picture-in-picture

- Lock settings with a parent PIN; rules are stored locally on the phone, and no account is required

Technically it relies on Android's accessibility service, reading what's on screen and blocking content. The company's Instagram promotion also mentions turning off only TikTok's "For You" page and preventing uninstall.

It costs 7 days free, then $2.99 a month. The website lists the annual price at $6.99, while an earlier Instagram post said $9.99, so the two don't match. They may be testing prices. The iOS version just launched with a 11-02 rating from 0 reviews. iOS can only use Apple's Screen Time APIs, so it can do less than the Android version.

Billion Tech Inc., which makes it, is a Calgary outsourcing company that builds websites, apps, and AI. Founder Mili Measho is an Eritrean-Canadian. Their TikTok bio reads "🇪🇷 & 🇨🇦 Apps • Web • Software" and has 5,376 followers.

### How much it actually grew

| Date | Total installs | Canada Parenting free chart |
|---|---|---|
| 11-01 | 548 | #8 |
| 11-02 | 1,024 | #6 |
| 11-05 | 1,755 | #13 |
| 11-06 | 1,937 | #19 |

Source: Google Play, daily records. In the first month after its September 27 launch, it got only a dozen or so installs a day. From 11-01 to 11-05 there was a spike, and by 11-06 daily new installs had fallen back to 182. It charts only in the Canada store, with 0 ratings, and the only review is "best app" from October 29.

The chart rank looks much better than the actual volume. This app is #19 on the Canada Parenting free chart, but it gets 7 new installs over 1,389 days. The apps just above and below it get several thousand to over a hundred thousand new installs over 7 days (Google Play, 11-06). On this chart, a few hundred installs a day gets you into the top 10.

### Where users come from

The installs picked up from 11-01 to 11-05, which is exactly when the community's TikTok videos clustered.

**The founder's own TikTok.** Mili Oct posted the first #MamaKidsControl video on 26, tagged #eritreantiktok, #ethiopian_tik_tok, #canada and #ScreenTime, with 23.6k views and 353 shares. 11-03 one got 10.5k views, and 11-05 one got 46.7k views and 374 shares (TikTok, 11-06).

**Cross-promotion among local small businesses.** This is the accounting firm from the start, plus the accounts it @-mentioned. They usually @ each other, one posts and the others reshare.

**社区里的育儿和幼教博主。** TikTok 上一个埃厄社区的幼教号(3,100 粉)11-01 发了两条推广,各 3,000 多播放;Facebook 上一位叫 Sara Bereket 的妈妈发了一条,5,500 播放、91 个反应。两边的文案一字不差,说明是统一发的稿。付没付钱,外面看不出来。

**Native-language tutorials.** The product page on the website is mostly written in Tigrinya, and the page title reads "7-day trial and Tigrinya video tutorial." Download, PIN setup, permissions, and plan selection each have Tigrinya instructions, and the tutorial videos are posted on YouTube Shorts and TikTok. The hardest step for parental control apps is granting permissions, especially for parents with weak English. A native-language video removes that barrier.

**Paid ads.** Nothing turned up in the Meta Ad Library when searching by package name or ad text. That doesn't prove they didn't run ads, but judging from the video views and install numbers, it's also plausible that they didn't.

The demand is real. On r/Eritrea on Reddit, a post titled "weird trend among this generation of Habesha kids" opens with: "I've noticed many newly arrived refugee/immigrant families where the kids' entertainment is all YouTube." On TikTok, people explain in Amharic and Tigrinya how to set up parental controls for kids, with views ranging from 10k to 46k.

This company isn't doing this for the first time. It previously made a Tigrinya question bank for the Alberta driver's license test, launched in April, and it has 5,007 installs now (Google Play). It first built trust and accounts in the community with a free essential tool, then pushed a subscription product, using the same people and the same approach.

### Where the money comes from

Subscription only. Based on 1,900 installs, a trial-to-paid conversion of 2% to 5%, that's an estimated tens to a couple hundred dollars a month (estimate; there's no top-grossing data or rating benchmark). For Billion Tech, this app is more of a portfolio piece for their outsourcing business, plus reputation in the community.

### Who it's competing with

| Product | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| Google Family Link | 223M installs | Starting January 2026, you can set a child's Shorts time limit to 0, which effectively turns it off. But that only controls time. It can't filter by word or by minority language. |
| YouTube Kids | 980M installs | The content is officially curated, and older kids won't use it. You can't define custom blocked words. |
| Qustodio, Kidslox | 10.4M / 3.38M installs | Blocks and limits by app, doesn't filter content inside YouTube, and costs more. |
| Sociallite, ScrollGuard, Shortstop | 580k / 210k / 70k installs | Also uses the accessibility service to block Shorts, but it's built for adults trying to quit scrolling. It has no parent lock. |
| ChildLock: Kids Safe | 3,270 installs | Launched September 21, about the same time and scale, but aimed at the mainstream English market. |

Install numbers come from Google Play, 11-06. Blocking Shorts and keywords with the accessibility service is nothing new, and Google itself has built Shorts limits in. Its only real difference is language: filtering in Tigrinya and Amharic, teaching in the native language, and promoting within native-language communities. Anyone can add language filtering. Its real effect is giving the community a reason to feel "this was made for us." What actually drove the installs was distribution: the founder is a member of the community.

### Can you ride it?

What's worth copying is the playbook. The product itself isn't worth learning. The playbook has three preconditions:

1. **You're inside a concentrated diaspora community** , you know its businesses, media accounts, and bloggers, and they'll share for you. Outsiders can't get this, and money can't buy it.

2. **Find a small country with a low-bar category chart.** On the Canada Parenting chart, a few hundred installs gets you into the top 10, and charting brings organic store exposure. The equivalent US charts require far more volume.

3. **Explain the hardest step in your native language.** For parental control apps, that step is permission setup. In another category, it would be whichever step scares users off the most.

Its weaknesses are also clear. Absolute volume is small, pricing is low, and one community's market is only so big. Accessibility-service apps sit in a gray zone of Google Play policy, and if YouTube changes its interface, the filtering can break. Family Link can already turn off Shorts, and if a big company adds keyword filtering, this differentiator disappears.

### If it were you

**C.** This is a case you can learn from, but following this app on its own isn't worth the time. What's worth learning is the template of "diaspora community + native language + an essential tool." It lets one person get first users and a chart position for almost nothing, but the ceiling is the size of that community.

**Who it fits:** someone who lives inside a concentrated diaspora community (Somali, Haitian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Afghan, and similar communities, in countries with low-bar category charts such as Canada, Germany, or Sweden), who is fluent in the language, who knows the community's businesses and bloggers, and who wants an early-stage project they can list on a resume or use to bring clients to their own outsourcing or studio business.

**Who it doesn't fit:** people who aren't part of any community and want to earn a living from this kind of product, or people who want to compete in the mainstream English parental control market, which has Family Link and many established products, and where you'd need paid acquisition.

**How to do it:** first build a free tool everyone in the community needs, such as a native-language driving test bank, a citizenship exam bank, or a tax filing calendar, to build trust and a base of accounts. Then push a small subscription tool, put the native language into features and instructions, and pair the hardest step with a native-language video tutorial.

**How to get users:** post native-language videos on your own TikTok, using community tags (like #eritreantiktok or #habesha). Get community accountants, driving schools, media accounts, and mom bloggers to post a shared script and @ each other. Watch a small country's category chart, push hard for a week to get into the top 10, and use the store's organic exposure.

**How early is early:** there's no clear window. The real deadline is Google. Once Family Link adds keyword filtering, or Google Play tightens its accessibility service rules, the space for tools like this gets squeezed. If you want to try it, do it now.

**Signs this read is wrong:** ① If Mama Kids Control gets dozens or more ratings before December, or charts in the Canada Top Grossing category, that shows people really do pay for minority-language subscriptions, so this market is bigger than it looks, and C should be revised up. ② Conversely, if its daily new installs stay in the double digits through November, and Billion Tech never pushes another language or country, then this wave was just a one-time share within a social circle, and even the people behind it haven't found a next step.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.billiontech.momcare)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Family Link | Big-company features | 2017 | 223M installs | Starting 2026-01, you can set Shorts time limits to 0, but that only controls time. It can't filter videos or searches by word or by minority language. |
| YouTube Kids | Big-company features | 2015 | 980M installs | The content pool is curated by the official side, older kids won't use it, and there's no custom word filtering. |
| Qustodio | Android | 2020 (current Play listing) | 10.4M installs | Full-featured monitoring with per-app controls, doesn't go inside YouTube to filter content, and costs more. |
| Kidslox | Android | 2015 | 3.38M installs | Limits time and blocks by app, doesn't filter YouTube content. |
| Sociallite / ScrollGuard / Shortstop | Android | 2024-2026 | 580k / 210k / 70k installs | Also uses the accessibility service to block Shorts, but it's built for adults trying to quit scrolling. It has no parent PIN and no word filtering. |
| ChildLock: Kids Safe(EpowerX Labs) | Android | 2026-09-21 | 3,270 installs | A mainstream English kids' lock launched around the same time at a similar scale. It has no minority-language support and no community distribution. |

Where users come from

- **Verified** **The founder's personal TikTok** : @milimeasho 10-26 #MamaKidsControl 23.6K views, 11-03 10.5K, 11-05 #billiontech 46.4K views / 367 shares (TikHub)

- **Verified** **Calgary Habesha small-business cross-promotion** : @kalservice.calgary (the tax-filing account) 11-02 posted #mama kids control, 15.5K views / 578 shares, and @-mentioned the founder and ERI INVESTING MEDIA, among others.

- **Verified** **Shared script from community parenting and early-education creators** : @every.child.matte 1 11-01 two posts, 3.3K / 3.8K views, and Sara Bereket's FB video (5.5K views) has identical captions. Whether it was paid hasn't been verified.

- **Verified** **The company's own Instagram content** : @billiontech 0 posted a series of English mom-perspective reels with trial and pricing details.

- **Verified** **Mother-tongue tutorial landing page** : billiontech.ca/apps/mama-kids-control is fully in Tigrinya, with tutorial videos posted on YouTube Shorts and TikTok

- **Verified** **Store chart exposure** : Canada PARENTING Top Free has a low bar; 11-02 ranked #6 (googleplay library, chart_rank)

- Inferred **Paid ads** : nothing found in the metaads library by package name or ad copy; the library only tracks fixed keywords, so not finding it doesn't mean they didn't spend

## Mama Kids Control (ca.billiontech.momcare) research report

Research date 2026-11-06. Data sources: our googleplay library, metaads library (agent-im server), Play listing, billiontech.ca website, iTunes lookup, Jina / Exa web search, TikHub TikTok data, x-radar.

### One line

An Android parental control app from Billion Tech Inc., a small outsourcing shop in Calgary. It doesn't block YouTube outright. It blocks Shorts, blocks videos and searches by keyword, blocks specific channels and downloaders, and keywords can be written in Tigrinya and Amharic. **This is a small business inside a diaspora community, not something that 'broke out'.** Founder Mili Measho is an Eritrean-Canadian who posts videos on his own TikTok, then gets acquaintances and small businesses in Calgary's Habesha circles to share them, pushing an app onto Canada's PARENTING Top Free chart (a low-bar chart). Under 2000 installs in total; no sign anyone is paying for acquisition.

### 1. Who they are

- Developer Billion Tech Inc. (billiontech.ca) is based in Calgary, with a core business in websites, apps and AI outsourcing. Its site lists 3 of its own products: Mama Kids Control, Canadian Citizenship Quiz 2026, Alberta Class 7 & 4, plus the rental platform Biet [billiontech.ca].

- Founder: TikTok @milimeasho (Mili Measho). Bio reads "🇪🇷 & 🇨🇦 Apps • Web • Software, Building smart tools for families & businesses", 5,376 followers [TikHub 2026-11-06].

- This team has done the same community play before: library entry com.million.quizapp "ALBERTA CLASS 7 & 4 **TIGRIGNA** ", listed 2026-04-07, 5,007 installs. It's a driving-test prep app for Tigrinya-speaking immigrants studying for Alberta's license [googleplay library]. Mili October's TikTok also promotes Calgary driving schools (#calgary #drivingschools). So Mama Kids Control is the second time they've used the "Calgary Eritrean / Ethiopian community + mother tongue" playbook.

- Product [Play listing]: blocks YouTube Shorts, blocks videos and searches containing specified words (English, Tigrinya, Amharic, Arabic, etc.), blocks specified channels, blocks download/install actions and video downloaders, blocks external links and picture-in-picture, and is protected by a parent PIN. Core functions run on the Android accessibility service, rules are stored locally, no account registration needed. The Instagram copy also claims it can turn off TikTok or only the For You feed, filter the Play Store, and prevent uninstalling [Instagram @billiontech0 2026-11-04 reel].

- Pricing: 7-day free trial, $2.99/month; the website lists the annual plan at $6.99, Instagram says $9.99, and the Play in-app purchase range is $2.09–$6.99 [billiontech.ca/apps/mama-kids-control; Instagram; googleplay library]. The prices don't match across channels, possibly price testing, or just not synced.

- The iOS version MamaKidsControl (id6820872722) 2026-11-02 is only just listed, category Utilities, rated 0, and uses the Screen Time API, so it can do less than the Android version [iTunes lookup].

### 2. Growth data (googleplay library)

| Date | Total installs | New today | Canada PARENTING Top Free |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-27 ~ 10-31 | — | About 14/day (historical data from AppstoreSpy, averaged across observation intervals) | — |
| 11-01 | 548(ext 608) | 14 | 8 |
| 11-02 | 1,024 | 416–476 | **6** |
| 11-03 | 1,024 | ~366 (averaged) | 7 |
| 11-04 | 1,024 / ext 1,755 | ~366 | 11 |
| 11-05 | 1,755 | 731 (two-day total) | 13 |
| 11-06 | 1,937 | 182 | 19 |

- Listed 9-27; almost no traffic the first month, about 14 a day. A push started around 11-01 to 11-05; installs rose about 5 over 1,400,11-06 days and then fell back to 182.

- Charted in only the Canada store. Its daily install gain on the Canada PARENTING Top Free chart at #19 on day 7 was only 1,389, while apps before and after it on the chart gained thousands to hundreds of thousands over 7 days [googleplay library v_chart 2026-11-06]. In other words, a few hundred installs a day gets you into the top 10 on this chart.

- 0 ratings; the only review is "best app" (10-29, ca).

### 3. How users arrived (evidence)

The timing lines up: installs spiked between 11-01 and 11-05, and the community videos on TikTok were also concentrated between 10-26 and 11-05.

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed? |
|---|---|---|
| The founder's own TikTok | @milimeasho: 10-26 #MamaKidsControl 23.6K views / 352 shares; 10-27 2.7K; 10-29 4.5K; 11-03 #mamakidscontrol #billiontech 10.5K; 11-05 #billiontech 46.4K views, 1,909 likes, 367 shares [TikHub] | Confirmed |
| Calgary Habesha small businesses / acquaintances cross-promoting | @kalservice.calgary (Calgary accounting, tax and immigration services, 5K followers) 11-02 posted #mama kids control, 15.5K views and 578 shares, tagging Mili Measho, ERI INVESTING MEDIA, Semhar W and Cheers video production [TikHub]. These accounts routinely tag each other, forming a local cross-promotion circle. | Confirmed |
| Community parenting / early-childhood creators | @every.child.matte1 (Ethiopian early-childhood education account, 3.1K followers)11-01 posted two identical promo videos, 3.3K and 3.8K views, with the same caption as Sara Bereket's Facebook post; Sara Bereket's FB video got 5.5K views and 91 reactions [TikHub; facebook.com/sara.bereket.581]. Identical captions suggest a coordinated post, likely paid or a favor. Whether money changed hands is unverified. | Confirmed (whether paid is unverified) |
| The company's own Instagram | @billiontech0 has a run of English "mom's POV" reels ("Create a new scene: my kid's feed", "my kids keep the Play Store", etc.) that mention the 7-day trial and pricing [Instagram search results] | Confirmed (view counts unknown) |
| Mother-tongue video tutorial landing page | The website is written entirely in Tigrinya, with video tutorials posted on YouTube Shorts and TikTok [billiontech.ca/apps/mama-kids-control] | Confirmed |
| Paid ads | The metaads library finds nothing by package name, and searching ad copy turns up nothing for this product; no TikTok European ads | Nothing found in the library, but metaads only tracks fixed keywords, so not finding it doesn't mean it wasn't run |
| Media / X / Reddit | x-radar: zero mentions over 30–60 days; web search finds no coverage | None |

Where the money comes from: 7-day trial converting to subscription, $2.99/month or $6.99–9.99/year. Estimating from 1,900 installs and a 2–5% trial-to-paid conversion, it's a few dozen to a hundred or two dollars a month. This is an inference, not verified. For the company, the app works more like a portfolio piece plus word-of-mouth project inside a community.

### 4. Competitors

| Competitors | Platform | Launched | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Family Link | Android / big-company features | 2017 | 223M installs, +7k over 447 days [googleplay library] | Since 2026-01, YouTube lets parents set a Shorts time limit, and setting it to 0 effectively turns it off [YouTube official blog, MediaPost]. But it controls duration only. It can't filter videos and searches by word or by minority language. |
| YouTube Kids | big tech | 2015 | 980M installs | The content pool is officially curated, and older kids don't want to use it; no custom word filtering |
| Qustodio / Kidslox / Microsoft Family Safety | Android / iOS | 2015–2020 | 10M / 3.38M / #5 on the Canada chart | Full-featured parental control: blocks by app, manages time, geolocation; doesn't go deep into content filtering inside YouTube |
| Sociallite / ScrollGuard / Shortstop | Android | 2024–2026 | 580k / 210k / 70k | Also uses the accessibility service to block Shorts/Reels, but targets adults trying to quit scrolling; no parent PIN, no word filtering |
| ChildLock: Kids Safe (EpowerX Labs, parent company of BrainPal) | Android | 2026-09-21 | 3,270,7 days +1,462 [googleplay library] | A kids' lock launched around the same time at a similar scale, aimed at the English mass market, with no minority languages |
| AirDroid Parental Control / Bark and others | Multi-platform | — | Canada chart #14 etc. | Monitoring-focused, full feature set, higher price |

Verdict: blocking Shorts and keywords through the accessibility service is not new technology. Competition is crowded, and Google itself has built a Shorts time limit in. Mama Kids Control's only real difference is that it **filters by Tigrinya and Amharic keywords, explains things in the mother tongue, and promotes inside the mother-tongue community** .

### 5. Why it took off

1. **The founder is already inside this community and has ready-made distribution** . One @milimeasho video with 46K views, plus cross-promotion from local business accounts like kalservice, put the app in front of a tight-knit group of Calgary and Canadian Eritrean parents. Their earlier Tigrinya driving-test question bank reached 5,000 installs by the same route.

2. **It hits a real pain point in the community** . Posts on r/Eritrea complain about Habesha kids endlessly scrolling Shorts, and TikTok has Amharic and Tigrinya tutorials on "setting up parental controls for kids" (@yohannes__mulu 9.6K, @etsegii_radiantroots 46K). Parents struggle with Family Link, and mother-tongue tutorials lower the barrier to setup.

3. **Canada's PARENTING Top Free chart has a low bar** : a few hundred installs a day gets you into the top 10. The chart position amplified this volume, and our recall was triggered by that ranking.

4. **"Doesn't block YouTube, just blocks Shorts and bad words" is easy to understand** , and easier for kids and parents to accept than "full monitoring".

### 6. Was differentiation why it took off?

The product differentiator is mother-tongue keyword filtering, plus targeting YouTube's internal content specifically. What actually mattered is a **difference in distribution** : the founder is a member of the community, with mother-tongue tutorials, acquaintances promoting each other, and small businesses tagging each other. That's not available in the English mass market. Mother-tongue keyword filtering mainly gives the community a reason to say "this was made for us"; technically anyone could add it. So this surge came from distribution, not the product.

### 7. Visibility and copycats

- Still obscure: no press coverage, zero mentions on X, no disclosed revenue; it circulates only in a diaspora community's TikTok and Facebook circles.

- Copycats: none found that specifically target minority-language parental controls. ChildLock: Kids Safe is a contemporary English-language competitor, not a copy.

### 8. What to borrow

- The "diaspora community + mother-tongue + local must-have tool" template: start with a low-barrier tool (a driver's license test prep app in the native language) to build trust and accounts within the community, then push a subscription product. The same approach can be copied to Somali, Tigrinya, Haitian, Filipino, Vietnamese and other diaspora communities that live in dense clusters.

- Pick a small country's low-barrier category chart (Canada PARENTING): a few hundred installs can put you on the chart, which earns organic exposure in the store.

- Have small local businesses in the community tag each other (accountants, driving schools, media accounts), costing almost nothing.

### 9. Uncertain

- Whether the community creators (Sara Bereket, every child matters) are paid partners or helping out is unverified.

- Whether they run Meta or TikTok ads: our library doesn't cover this, unverified.

- Trial-to-paid conversion and retention: no ratings or grossing chart data, so we have no idea.

- Which of $6.99 and $9.99 is the current price.

- Parental control apps built on accessibility services risk removal under Google Play policy; YouTube UI changes can also break the filtering.

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.