Editorial standards

How PapaTime sources, verifies, and corrects what we publish

Last reviewed 3 May 2026 · Owner: Slava Nikitin

What this page covers

PapaTime is a small team building a parental-control product. This page documents the standards we hold our public claims to — on this site, in our newsletter, and in any external press we participate in. If you find something on PapaTime that contradicts this page, it’s a bug. Email hello@trypapatime.com and we’ll fix it.

Sourcing claims

• Technical claims about Apple platforms (iOS version requirements, FamilyControls behavior, DeviceActivity limits) are sourced from Apple’s developer documentation and tested against the version of iOS named on the page.
• Telegram bot capabilities are described per the Telegram Bot API. Where we say “voice messages are transcribed,” we name the third-party service (AssemblyAI) we use.
• Screen-time and family-media guidance we cite traces back to the American Academy of Pediatrics or another named primary source.
• Pricing claims include an as-of date. If a price is older than 90 days, we re-verify before re-using it.

Verifying competitor comparisons

The comparison table on the homepage (PapaTime vs Apple Screen Time, Google Family Link, Qustodio) is verified against each vendor’s own current marketing or documentation, not third-party reviews. The table carries an “as of” date and is re-checked at least quarterly. If a competitor ships a feature that invalidates a row, we update the row before the quarterly review.

We don’t describe a competitor’s features in ways their own documentation doesn’t support. If we’ve made a mistake about a competitor’s product, please tell us — we correct factual errors in 48 hours and post the diff in our changelog.

Original data and case studies

PapaTime is in private beta as of May 2026. Any future case studies or aggregated usage statistics will (a) name the cohort size, (b) name the time period, (c) be opt-in for the families involved, and (d) never identify a child by name or photo without written parental consent.

Corrections policy

• Factual errors are fixed within 48 hours of report. If the original claim was visible on the page, the correction is logged in a visible “Last updated” stamp and (for material changes) a one-line note describing the fix.
• Updates that change the meaning of a page (price changes, scope changes, retraction of a claim) bump the page’s `dateModified` schema field and refresh the visible date.
• Cosmetic edits (typos, formatting) do not update dates, to keep the freshness signal honest.

Conflicts of interest

• PapaTime is bootstrapped. We have no investors, no affiliate partners, and no commission relationships with any product we compare against.
• We don’t accept paid placement, sponsored coverage, or gifted hardware.
• Where a third-party service is part of how PapaTime works (Telegram, Apple, Firebase, AssemblyAI, Resend, Plausible), we name it openly. We don’t receive commissions from any of these vendors.

Privacy and data handling

See the Privacy Policy for how we handle child and parent data. In short: data lives in Google Cloud Firestore (EU regions), we don’t sell or rent it, analytics use Plausible (cookieless), and children’s personally identifiable information is minimized to first name and chore activity only.

Who to contact

hello@trypapatime.com reaches the founder directly. Subject lines starting with [CORRECTION] are routed to the top of the queue.

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