Parents today face an impossible task. Every app their children use — Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, Roblox, Instagram — has its own parental controls, its own settings screen, its own mental model. A family with four kids might be managing 30 or more separate configuration panels. Most give up after two or three. That’s not a parenting failure. It’s a systems failure.
Today we’re launching Phosra to fix this. Phosra is an open specification and API that covers 320+ platforms in the kids’ ecosystem. When platforms adopt the spec, parents set rules once and enforcement works everywhere. Parental control providers can plug into Phosra to extend their reach across the entire ecosystem.
“The open banking movement proved that consumers shouldn’t be locked into each bank’s proprietary interface to manage their own money. The same principle applies to how parents protect their children online.”
— Jake Klinvex, Founder & CEO
Phosra ships with the Phosra Child Safety Spec (PCSS), an open specification that defines how parental control rules are structured, transmitted, and enforced across platforms. PCSS v1.0 covers 45 rule categories — from screen time limits and content filtering to age-gated social media access and algorithmic transparency controls.
The platform is available today for developers and enterprise customers. Visit phosra.com/docs for the full API reference and integration guides.
About Phosra
Phosra is an open child safety spec and API. Kids use 320+ apps and platforms — each with different, fragmented parental controls. Phosra defines a universal spec so platforms can offer interoperable controls and parents can set rules once. We track 78 child safety laws across 25+ jurisdictions. Learn more at phosra.com.
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