Helm for parents · the household admin account

You set the rules. Helm enforces them.

Your parent account is the admin of your family's interest media, social media your family actually owns. Screen time, downtime, and who-can-DM are built into the platform, anything that needs your yes waits in one approvals queue, and the whole house runs on one family dashboard. No ads. No data sales. No strangers in the DMs.

The Helm mascot family together on the family-safe social media platform
Why parents pick Helm

Control that's real, not a settings page.

What do parents get on Helm? A single account that manages every kid and teen in the house. On other platforms, controls are bolted on. On Helm, the controls are the platform, and every kid tap runs through them.

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Built-in parental controls

Screen-time budgets, downtime hours, and who-can-DM allowlists live inside Helm itself. Nothing extra to install, nothing for a clever kid to route around.

One approvals queue

DM requests, chore check-offs, and reward redemptions that need a parent's yes land in a single queue you clear from your phone in seconds.

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One family hub

Chores & stars, the meal planner, the shared calendar, and rewards & redemptions on one dashboard, on a platform with no ads and no data sales.

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Your side of every kid account.

Not concept art. These are real Helm screens: the controls behind every kid and teen account, the queue where your decisions live, and the dashboard your household runs on.

Screen time & DM safety

Set it once. It holds every day.

How do parental controls work on Helm? Behind every kid and teen account sits a control panel only you can touch. Give each child a daily screen-time budget, block off downtime hours, and lock DMs to the people you approve.

  • Daily screen-time budget with a live meter
  • Downtime hours that pause posts, follows & DMs
  • Who-can-DM locked to your allowlist, nobody else
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Nova's controls
@nova · teen account
Today's screen time42 / 120 min
Downtime hours
Blocks posts, follows & DMs
Who can DM
Family onlyFamily + approved
Notify me on go-live
Require post approval
The approvals queue

Everything that needs your yes, in one place.

New DM contacts, chore check-offs, and reward redemptions all wait for you in a single queue. Approve or deny from your phone in seconds, and the decision applies instantly across the whole platform.

  • DM allowlist requests reviewed before anyone can message your kid
  • Chore check-offs confirmed before stars are paid out
  • Reward redemptions that wait for a parent's sign-off
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Approvals
3 waiting for you
DM request
Coach Dana wants to message Nova
ApproveDeny
Chore check-off
Walk the dog · ★ 10
ApproveDeny
Reward redemption
+1 hour screen time · ★ 40
ApproveDeny
The family dashboard

Chores, meals, calendar, rewards. One screen.

Set a chore once with a star value and a schedule. Kids check it off in their app, stars roll up, and they redeem for rewards you define. The meal planner and the shared color-coded calendar sit right beside it, so the whole day lives in one place.

  • Chores & stars with values and schedules you set
  • A meal planner and shared calendar the whole family sees
  • Rewards & redemptions tracked start to finish
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Nova's chores
This week · Sunday
Stars earned this week★ 128
Make the bed★ 5
Walk the dog★ 10
Load the dishwasher★ 8
Homework hour★ 15
Redeem stars
📺 +1 hour screen time★ 40
🍿 Movie night pick★ 100
COPPA-safe accounts & family-only Live

Safe by design, not by promise.

Kids and Teens get their own COPPA-safe Who it's for with allowlist DM safety, plus platform-wide moderation under clear community guidelines. When your kid goes live, the audience is family-only, you are notified the moment it starts, and one tap from your phone ends the stream.

  • COPPA-safe Kids & Teens accounts with parent consent built in
  • Family-only Live, so no strangers in the audience
  • One-tap stop + parent notify on every go-live
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Rio, Pip, and Iris relaxing on the couch while a parent checks Helm on a phone
Fast to start

Become the household admin in 3 steps.

How do you set up a Helm parent account? Sign up, link each kid, and pick the rules once. From then on, Helm enforces them automatically and routes anything that needs your yes to the approvals queue.

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Create your parent account

Sign up free in minutes. Your parent account is the admin for every kid and teen you link, all from one login.

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Link your kids and teens

Add each child with a COPPA-safe Kids or Teens account. Parent consent is built into the flow, not buried in settings.

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Pick the rules once

Set screen time, downtime, and who-can-DM. Add chores, meals, and calendar events. Helm handles the rest, every day.

Pip and Rio walking the dog to check off a chore in the Helm family dashboard
The right home for every age

Your rules, their version of Helm.

Each member of the house gets the account built for them, and every one of them answers to yours.

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Kids

COPPA-safe accounts for under-13s: parent-linked, allowlist DMs, and an approvals queue on everything.

See the kid experience →
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Teens

More independence with safer defaults. You stay in the loop without hovering over every post.

See the teen experience →
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Families

The full household picture: the dashboard, the calendar, the chores, and family-only Live in one tour.

See Helm for families →
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Hand them the phone. Keep the helm.

Set up your whole household on family-safe interest media in one evening. No ads, no data sales, and every control in your hands.

Pip and Rio, the Helm mascots, ready to join your family