Founding Families
Help us build the screen time app
families actually deserve
25 spots. Lifetime pricing locked forever. Your feedback shapes every feature we build next.
Join Wave 1What You're Building With Us
A pact, not a parental control
TAP is the screen time app where your whole family makes the rules. Parents and teens negotiate together, sign a digital pact, and check in daily. No surveillance. No blocking. Just honest accountability.
Active Pact
School Night Rules
Today's Check-In
Photo proof
Alex: Homework done before dinner. Here's my desk.
Renegotiation
Alex proposes:
“Summer break starts Friday. Can we push phone-off to 10 PM?”
Why This Matters
Parental controls are failing families
40%
higher compliance when teens co-create screen time rules vs. having limits imposed on them.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2023
"Little"
association between parental controls and teens’ actual screen behavior. The controls don’t change what teens do — just where.
Meta Project MYST / University of Chicago
Jan 2026
The AAP dropped specific screen time limits. New recommendation: collaborative family media plans. TAP is that plan, in an app.
American Academy of Pediatrics
How It Works
Three steps to a family pact
Negotiate Together
Sit down as a family. Each person proposes screen time rules and responsibilities. Discuss until both sides agree. Sign the pact.
Check In Daily
Teens post a check-in with photo proof. No background tracking. No app surveillance. Just honest accountability, every day.
Renegotiate Anytime
Summer break? New semester? Anyone can propose new terms. TAP is the only app where teens can formally renegotiate the rules.
The Offer
350 families. 6 waves. Your price locked for life.
The earlier you join, the deeper the discount. Every founding family keeps their price forever — no increase, no catch.
Wave 1
$14.99/yr
25 families
75% offWave 2
$19.99/yr
25 families
67% offWave 3
$24.99/yr
50 families
58% offWave 4
$29.99/yr
50 families
50% offWave 5
$39.99/yr
100 families
33% offWave 6
$49.99/yr
100 families
17% offRetail will be $59.99/yr or $9.99/mo. All founding prices are annual, locked for life.
What founding families get
- Full TAP Premium from day one
- Your founding price locked for life
- Unlimited pacts, family members, and templates
- Direct line to the founder — your feedback shapes the app
- First access to every new feature
- A founding family badge visible in-app
What we ask in return
- Use the app with your family — actually sit down and build a pact together
- Tell us what’s broken — we read every message, we fix what matters
- Tell us what’s missing — the features families discover through use are the best ones
- Be patient with rough edges — v1.0 won’t be perfect, and that’s the point
A Different Category
TAP isn't a better parental control. It's a replacement.
| Parental Controls | TAP | |
|---|---|---|
| Who sets the rules? | Parent only | Whole family |
| Can teens see the rules? | Sometimes | Always — same dashboard |
| Can teens change the rules? | No | Yes — renegotiation built in |
| How is compliance checked? | Surveillance + blocking | Daily check-ins with proof |
| When rules don’t fit? | Teen finds a workaround | Family renegotiates |
| How do teens feel? | “Spyware” (Trustpilot) | They helped write the rules |
| Price | $5–14/month | Free to start |
Built on what the AAP actually recommends
In January 2026, the American Academy of Pediatrics replaced specific screen time limits with the 5 Cs framework and recommended collaborative family media plans. TAP is that recommendation, built into an app your family can use every day. Read the full breakdown
Wave 1 — 25 Spots
Join the Founding Families
Tell us about your family so we can build TAP for real households, not hypothetical ones.
TAP is built by Tree City Design, a small app studio in the Midwest. Solo founder, parent, someone who's lived the screen time fight and decided to build something different.