Classic smartphone comparison with Family Link vs Neow with Family Link

A classic Android smartphone with Family Link remains, at its core, a phone designed for adult use. Family Link is added to an already open system: the browser is present, social networks are available on the Play Store and certain restrictions can be circumvented. Management is often limited to overall screen time, with little real control over apps and content.

With Neow, Family Link is also integrated, but in a way inseparable from the system. Parental controls are part of the phone's architecture, which is based on Android modified with a specific overlay. The environment is locked from the start and designed for secure adolescent use.

Concretely:

• The Play Store is replaced by the Store Neow, a store of pre-selected applications. Parents can add apps to it.
• The child does not see applications to which he does not have access.
• Social networks are absent by default. Allowing them requires additional security steps.
• No search engine or web browser is accessible without parental validation.
• Restrictions, even via Family Link, cannot be circumvented by the child.
• The phone can gradually evolve according to the child's needs, but always under the parents' control. It may be unclampable.
  

Where a classic Android with Family Link tries to limit an already open system, Neow integrates parental controls at the heart of the phone, by creating a secure framework from the start to prevent abuses rather than correct them.