The Circle Parental Controls App is a comprehensive and easy-to-use app that helps parents manage their children's screen time and online activities. The app offers features such as web filters, time limits, and the ability to pause the internet for every family member or just one. Parents can also monitor their children's online activities through the app's history and usage features, and keep track of their location through their mobile devices. The app also offers features to balance time online and offline, such as setting a bedtime for connected devices and scheduling distraction-free internet time for school, homework, or offline time. The app comes with a free trial and a subscription is required to access all the parental control features.

Circle's parental control features use a local VPN installed on a child's device to apply Circle features like content blocking and time limits to individual apps and categories of apps. For managing online screen time on smart TVs, video game consoles, and computers, parents can use the Circle Home Plus parental control device, which is sold separately. The Circle Parental Controls App is not for use with Circle with Disney or Circle on Netgear routers.

If parents have any questions or need help with the app, they can contact the support team through email or the support website. The Circle subscription is an automatic renewing subscription, and subscribers can manage subscriptions and disable auto-renewal by visiting their Google Play Account Settings after purchase.

Overall, over 90% of Circle parental control app users say it helps keep their kids safe online and makes it easier to manage screen time in their family.