Circle Home
By Circle Media Incorporated
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Description
Meet Circle Home, the free app that helps you setup and manage your Circle with Disney device (sold separately).
Circle helps parents filter content, manage screen time, and stay informed with what their kids do online. In just minutes, Circle pairs with your home Wi-Fi and manages every device in your home, providing a single view of the family’s online experience.
SET TIME LIMITS
Create daily time limits on apps and popular sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube.
FILTER CONTENT
Set individual filter levels by age—Pre-K, Kid, Teen, and Adult—for each member of your family.
SET A BEDTIME
Choose a BedTime for your family’s devices to avoid late night surfing.
PAUSE THE INTERNET
Pause the internet for a single family member or the whole home—with a single tap.
Circle manages all the Wi-Fi devices in your home—smartphones, tablets, gaming systems, laptops, computers—from a single iOS app.
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Introducing Circle Go™!
Circle Go takes all of the settings your kids’ devices have at home, and extends them to your family’s mobile devices. Whether they’re on a 4G LTE Network, or any other WiFi network, they’ll be managed by Circle Go. A subscription can be purchased in app for $9.99 per month for up to 10 of your family’s mobile iOS devices.
Circle Go is an automatic-renewing subscription. Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew unless auto-renewing is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of your current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal, as stated above, within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Current subscribers may not be canceled during the active subscription period, but you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Setting after purchase.
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NEED HELP?
If you have any questions, need any help with Circle, or want to provide any feedback, you can contact our Support Team at help@meetcircle.com or go to support.meetcircle.com
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Privacy policy: https://meetcircle.com/privacy/
Terms of use: https://meetcircle.com/license/
What's New in Version 1.6.2
This update of your Circle Home app includes various bug fixes.
-- DID YOU MISS OUR LAST UPDATE? (1.6) --
Whether you just started using Circle with Disney this week or you’ve been using it since Day One, you’re going to LOVE the new features we included in this update. We’ve added 45 new apps & platforms that you can manage, and given your family another reason to love the weekends —so now you’re going to love your Circle even more!
Weekend Time Limits
Now you can give your family a little extra screen time, just to make weekends more fun. You can give extra time for specific apps or categories, or bump up daily time limits...just on the weekends. Just open your Circle Home app, select a Profile, and then tap “Time Limits” to start adding screen time limits, just for the weekend!
Unmanaged Filter Level
Do you want your kid to always be able to access educational content? Would you like to allow your kids to listen to music past their BedTime? Now you have full customizability over your family’s Filters with our new “Unmanaged Filter.” Set Spotify, Education, or any other app/category to “Unmanaged,” and just like that they’ll have access to that content, 24/7.
45 New Platforms
We’ve added support for over 45 new platforms! Have you seen an app under Insights that you wish you could set a Time Limit for? Now, you can tap on that app to add it as a platform, set a Time Limit for it, or apply a Filter setting to it.
Backup and Restore
You can now backup all of your family’s profiles - so you don’t lose any of your settings - in case you ever need to restore or replace your Circle.
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As always, if you have questions or comments, please contact our Support Team at help@meetcircle.com, or go to support.meetcircle.com.
Customer Reviews
Great solution for us
Circle has been a great solution for our family. We've tried software that is so inconvenient for me to check email or read a blog post that it's infuriating to use the internet at all, so we just disable the filter. Not good. Circle and the ability to personalize devices filter levels has been super! Installation is easy and customer service has been great when mom can't figure something out. 😜The app itself is reliable and user friendly.
We have multiple devices of different makes and the filtering is pretty effective on all devices. We are with Circle now and I hope we can continue to be in the future but increased filtering efficacy, coverage when kids take devices out of our wi-fi network, and the ability to disable particular apps and block offline apps should be high priorities in updates. If Circle could throw some more of the weight of Disney behind its technology and become a one stop shop for parental controls this could be a big win for parents...and kids. For now, it's just a solid tool which hopefully will keep getting better as the technology grows.
LOVE this device and app
My husband and I LOVE this device and app. We have 3 kids and many devices in our house. We have profiles setup for each kid and even one for their shared items (computer, xbox). It has been amazing. Kids have limits now and network connection shuts off for them at a certain time. So all kids are differnt based on ages. It also allows us to block other app distractions when they need to be studying or doing projects. And I love the Reward option to be able to give them extra time when earned. You can make changes instantly for which apps they can use or if some apps needed to be limited. And the best (but most frustrating for my son) is the "Pause" button when he's been told he needs to leave and can't tear himself away. No more yelling....my the parents....in our house!
Disappointing
So disappointed in this product with Disney's name. The product keeps touting limiting "screen time" but it can only monitor and control apps and content that uses the internet. In other words anything that doesn't use the internet is a free for all: Minecraft (offline gaming, or any other game that doesn't require internet), movies and videos stored on the device etc. When I buy a device that says "limit screen time" I want exactly that. I want to be able to set a time limit for individual users or at least devices so that when the limit is reached, the device is essentially bricked for that user. A lot of other filters and granular controls would be nice and somewhat expected, but the previous is an absolute must. I will be returning it until something better comes along or my kids are older and filtering online content is more of a must.
- Free
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Apr 19, 2017
- Version: 1.6.2
- Size: 53.7 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
- Seller: Circle Media Incorporated
- © 2017 Circle Media Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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