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The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.

Circle with DisneyIn a home of six, including four kids, you can bet we have a lot of devices connected to the internet. It’s difficult to keep track of who’s online when. And when friends come to visit, there are always new devices on our router. Circle with Disney helps parents filter content, manage screen time, and stay informed with what their kids do online. In under 5 minutes, I had Circle paired wirelessly with my router and began the set-up to manage every device in my home—including smartphones, tablets, laptops, iPods, TVs, and gaming systems—and it provides a single view of our family’s online experience all from an app on my phone.

Circle with DisneyThe Circle with Disney ($99.99) device uses a subscription to Circle Go ($240 for 2 years) to help manage our kids’ day-to-day internet use and activity.

Circle with Disney Devices

Circle with Disney manages all of our home’s connected devices. With Circle, parents can filter content, limit screen time, and set a bedtime for every device in the home.

Circle with Disney ProfileLimit Screen Time

Circle’s Features Time Limits Screen time is very important to kids and for parents who manage it. Time Limits offers the ability to limit daily screen time for platforms, apps, and categories, painlessly.

Shut off for Bedtime

With Circle’s BedTime feature, no more asking every night for kids to get off their devices. When BedTime kicks in devices say goodnight all on their own. I love that our kids’ devices are automatically shut off at night. And because of their profiles, the older kids have a later BedTime than the younger kids.

Set-up Filters

Set individual filter levels for each family member that matches their age and interests. Do it once and it will apply to every one of their devices. Each person each gets their own profile to manage devices based on their age and what they should or should not be allowed to view. Beyond the general settings, you can adjust the settings to customize for your individual needs. My 9-, 12-, and 14-year-olds all have slightly dofferent filters based on what they are allowed to search and watch, especially on YouTube. The community laptop for school work is onthe lowest common denominator, so it has the profile for my youngest kids.

Pause the Internet

Yes, you actually get a pause button for the internet. Pause one of your kids because it’s time for homework or everyone because it’s game night. Either way, Circle has your back. This is such an easy-to-use and cool feature.

Check Insights

Circle Insights gives you the ability to compare time online today, last week, or even last month. Per site or by interest. You can even find out where you waste time the most.  This feature is very handy for the kids and the adults.

Who’s on Your Network?

When your kids have friends over, you see who’s on your network because you get an alert whenever a new device joins your network. You can also add that new device its own profile or give it to one of your kids’ profiles so you know they all have the same level of internet search use.

Manage Devices on the Go

Circle Go Ever wish you could manage your kids’ devices wherever they went? Circle Go makes it possible. Circle Go takes all of the settings your kids’ devices have at home and extends them to 4G LTE and any other Wi-Fi network they join.

 

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Jana Seitzer is a writer, traveler, podcaster, and geek. Although well-versed in many fictional universes, Star Wars & Marvel have always been her favorites.

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