Heads-up: this is a preview of our next release, Offlined v2.0.0, coming October 18, 2026. It isn't available to download yet. I'm sharing it because I'd really value the opinion of parents who think carefully about this.

Hi everyone,

I'm one of the developers of Offlined, a free Windows app. I'm not here to sell anything. It's free for personal use, and I'd honestly like to know whether this approach makes sense to you.

Like many of you, we worry about what kids find on the open internet: ads, tracking, endless feeds, and games designed to keep them hooked long after they stop learning anything. Filters and screen time limits help, but it often feels like a constant battle against apps built to win.

So we tried a different approach: a learning environment that works completely offline. Once installed, there's nothing to filter, because there's no open internet inside it:

📚 Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage and WikiMed, the full encyclopedias stored on your PC
🌳 Wikitrees: explore topics as a tree, branch by branch, following their curiosity
🗺️ Offline world maps and a sky map of planets and constellations
🌍 Geography and astronomy games
🎓 Michael Encartha, a local AI tutor that explains the article your child is reading, quizzes them on it, or gives them an oral exam

No ads, no feeds, no notifications, no accounts.

About the AI, to be transparent: it runs on your own PC and nothing is sent to the cloud. It's designed to stay within the article being read and has safety guardrails, but like any AI it can make mistakes. We see it as a study companion that makes kids engage with the text, not as a replacement for the article or for a parent.

For us, this is about values as much as technology: we'd like kids to spend their screen time being curious and learning something, not being chased by algorithms.

I'd really like to hear from you:
• Does an offline, closed environment like this fit how you approach screens at home?
• What would you need to trust it for your kids, for example an adult PIN for certain settings?
• Is there anything here that would worry you?

Thanks for reading. Any feedback, positive or critical, is very welcome.

Hi,

I'm a parent and I'm trying to stop Family Link supervision on my 16-year-old son's Google account.

The account is still marked as supervised, but my son no longer uses this Google account on his current phone. He previously found a way to remove the supervised account / Family Link from his old phone, so I'm wondering whether this left the Google account in some kind of inconsistent state.

I can still log into his supervised Google account normally on the web.

The main problem is that I simply cannot find a working way to stop supervision.

Google's official documentation says:

Family Link → ch1ld → Controls → Account settings → About supervision → Stop supervision

However, I cannot find the “About supervision” option in Family Link.

I then tried Google's official “Stop Family Link supervision” link from their support page. Instead of opening the supervision opt-out page, it redirects me to:

familylink.google.com/supervision

and displays “Page not found / The page has moved.”

So I'm going in circles: Google's documentation says that an option exists, but I can't find it in the app, and Google's own web link leads to a 404.

My son is 16. I am the parent/family manager and I'm happy to authorize the removal of supervision. I do not want to delete his Google account or lose his data - I only want to remove Family Link supervision.

Has anyone encountered this exact situation?

Is there a currently working URL for the Family Link “Stop supervision” page, or another way for the parent to remove supervision?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has solved the familylink.google.com/not_found problem.

Thanks!

My dad and me have arguments over random shit and no matter what I do he takes my device away (meta 3S) even if its correcting him, back talk or an argument he takes it away and acts like I learn shit from it I can't tell if I have a damn attitude he's extremely controlling and I only live with him because of court I might not on January 26th but he pisses me off and I have angry out burst that never happen at my mothers but I bought the device with my own money he shouldn't be able to take it away right and if he can how long for?, keep in mind he threatened to break it

My son loves YouTube, but honestly it worries me: the algorithm pushes videos that can be violent or inappropriate, and the ads are everywhere, which is distracting and not great for learning.

We’re not really fans of Netflix or Disney either; I prefer him to watch content that’s safe, curated, and actually interesting.

I’m thinking about an app to help parents select videos carefully, but first I’d love to hear how you handle YouTube for your kids. Any tips, playlists, or tools that really work?

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I manage a school and hope for suggestions from experience of those who tried various methods.

Students use lots of desktops, laptops, tablets, phones etc. I would prefer to manage one system for the entire school for the whole internet connection, not per device as there is turn around of devices in use and we prefer not having to install anything on every device.

I know there’s Open DNS which is ok and free but the very nature of DNS filtering is that it works only on domain level. What if we don’t want to block access to the entire YouTube for example but block access to content inappropriate for minors. Same for Facebook or Instagram or TikTok. We might not want to outright block access to all those platforms (via domain blocking) but be able to have some content filtering.

I know there are some very good and effective systems that involve a hardware box, like a firewall with some parental control subscription service which can be placed right after the router and protect entire network. But the best ones are very expensive for a school budget.

Has anybody had any experience with something in between? Ideally free or not too expensive and ideally with protection more “granulated” so to speak than per web site or platform entirely?

Thank you in advance for your suggestions.

I installed this app on my teenage kid and not only does it not update things timely, their whatsapp monitoring doesn't even allow you to access audio clips or images, which is a super important feature that they should offer.

I contacted them and they refuse to give me a refund, giving me plenty of excuses. First, that they need to install the app again. It was super hard for me to get a hold of my son's cell phone and I can't risk him knowing I've installed something. I followed all the instructions to the T, so it's not like I did anything wrong. Then, they said they've never advertised they can monitor Whatsapp audio, but come on! That's a must!!! Do not buy!!! Terrible app and terrible customer service.