Glimpse - Parental App (agent)

Our goal is to promote healthy, honest dialog between parents and their kids!

Get a Glimpse into your child’s life

We live in a highly connected world, there is no doubt about that, while most of us still vaguely remember a world without smartphones or mobile internet access, our children will have trouble even imagining that kind of life.

Parents today are raising their children with a completely different set of tools than those they were raised with themselves. Much of the information available to parents quickly becomes irrelevant in a world where children can learn about anything, in no time, on Youtube and social media. The control parents have over the information their kids are exposed to is constantly deteriorating at unprecedented speed. Parenting is becoming the uncharted territory of our time, and parents are the modern trailblazers.

Technology is not all bad

With all the information and learning potential that technology provides, it also raises concern about the kind of content kids are exposed to–and there’s technology for that, too. Parents are using all sorts of online tools to limit their children’s activity, usage and exposure. Often, parents see the internet, and especially mobile phone usage, as a mostly negative activity or at least one that needs to be monitored closely.

We are here to talk about a different approach - it’s less about limiting, and more about how parents can leverage their children’s smartphone usage to learn more about their kid’s interests, strengths, and weaknesses.

The future of parental awareness

Glimpse is one of the new approaches to parenting in the age of smartphones. Unlike conventional parental control apps, Glimpse does not block or filter, it does not expose your child’s private conversations–not even to you.

Glimpse’s goal is to promote healthy, honest dialog between parents and their children. So how’s it done? Glimpse’s true power is its ability to identify and analyze the underlying methods app and game developers employ to engage their users. By uncovering those attributes, and layering them with your kid’s usage, Glimpse is able to uncover patterns that translate into valuable insights.

This allows Glimpse to find out how to motivate your child, what kind of activities your child will like most and what topics they may be interested in. Glimpse does not use that information for anything besides reflecting it to you, parents, with actionable suggestions for activities, conversation topics, and efficient ways to incentivize your child to achieve positive goals.

Using technology to your advantage

Parental apps are no longer simple content filters or ways to track your child’s behaviour online. We all want to protect our children from the dark corners of the internet, but long life lessons taught us that forbidding something makes it much more appealing. Children will find a way to the forbidden stuff, no matter how many filters you use. There is nothing that works better than education and open conversation.