Devices
What it runs on
The target is the tablet a family actually buys — roughly $80 to $350 — not a school fleet. Below is where each one stands, including the ones with a catch.
Tablets
| Family | Status | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Fire HD 8 / 10 / Max 11 2022 and newer, incl. Kids editions | Supported, with a catch | Removing the Amazon account is required, and it also removes the Appstore. Read this first. |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab A and current Tab series | Supported, with a catch | Samsung's Auto Blocker sits in front of setup and you must switch it off by hand first — supervision cannot do it for you. |
| Lenovo Tab M / Idea Tab | Supported | Close to stock Android. Lenovo Family Mode is a competing supervisor; turn it off. |
| Walmart onn. | Supported | Stock Android behaviour, no special handling needed. |
| Redmi Pad SE, TCL Tab | Expected to work | Covered by the common engine. Not yet exercised on our own hardware. |
| Nokia / HMD | Expected to work | Clean Android, small volume. |
"Expected to work" is not "verified". It means the device ships close enough to stock Android that our common engine covers it, and nothing about it is known to be in the way. When we have run it on the hardware in our hands, this table will say so and not before.
The Amazon Fire catch, in full
Android will not grant supervision while an account is signed in, so the Amazon account has to be deregistered. On a Fire, deregistering also disables the Amazon Appstore — and on a Fire that is the only app store there is. There is no Play Store to fall back on.
What that means for you: install every app your child needs before you deregister and run setup. Choosing apps becomes a setup-time decision on a Fire rather than something changed later.
For a locked-down tablet for a six-year-old — which is what most Fire Kids tablets are — that is usually fine. For an older child who installs things themselves, a Samsung or Lenovo is the better buy, because Play keeps working there.
Open question we have not closed. Whether signing back into Amazon after setup keeps supervision intact is not yet verified on our hardware. If it does, the Fire story gets considerably better. We are not going to claim it until we have watched it happen.
Computers
Not an afterthought and not a browser extension. A computer is covered too, though not yet as completely as a tablet, and a filtering resolver the child cannot swap — managed from the same dashboard. The one thing it does not have yet is the remote rest switch; that is Android-only today.
| Machine | Status | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Windows 11 | Early | Administrator rights once. Installs a background agent, a filtering DNS resolver, network filter rules and execute blocks. The web filter is off until you turn it on |
| Windows 10 | Early | Same components. Locking the machine to a single desktop program is not available on the editions families own, so the child session holds the set of programs you chose rather than exactly one. |
| macOS | Early | Administrator password once. A privileged helper and a filtering resolver, each step verified after it is applied and reported as a tick or a cross. |
| Linux desktops | Not yet | Designed for, not built. We are not going to list it as supported before it exists. |
A rule about a whole site holds everywhere. A rule about one part of a site does not. Hostname rules are enforced at the resolver, which every program using the system's own name lookups goes through. A rule naming a path inside a site can only be enforced through browser policy, so it holds in Chrome and Edge and not in Firefox. The agent reports which browsers it actually covered in its own output when it runs.
Your own computer is not the child's computer. The installer changes the machine it runs on — a filtering resolver, network rules, execution blocks — for every account on it, not for one child's account. It does not ask you which account is the child's and it does not create a separate restricted session; that is built but not yet wired into the installer. Use a machine the child actually uses, and read the uninstall step before you start.
Not supported, on purpose
- A child's iPhone or iPad, as a supervised device. Apple grants no third party the equivalent of Android's Device Owner, so nothing we shipped could actually hold. This is about the child's device only — see below.
- Huawei — no Google services, and the supervision path depends on them.
- Kindle e-readers — not Android tablets in the sense that matters here.
- Fire 7, Fire HD 10 7th generation (2017), Fire OS 5 and 6 — too old for the APIs this relies on.
- Unbranded tablets from marketplace sellers. Their firmware varies from unit to unit and we cannot make a claim that holds.
If you have an iPhone, this is still for you
The line above is about the device your child uses. The device you use is a different question, and the answer is any of them.
You manage everything from a browser — apps, sites, daily limits, schedules, requests, and the remote lock — and the dashboard is built for a phone held in one hand rather than a desktop that was later squeezed down. An iPhone is a first-class parent device today.
What an iPhone cannot be is the supervised one. If your child's device is an iPhone, ParentProof has nothing honest to offer for it, and we would rather say that here than sell you a subscription and explain it afterwards.