Circle 1st generation Reviews

Good app if you can prevent the hack trick

stlyse

I’ve use this app for more than half year, absolutely love it. I also recommend to other parents. Until recently my kids got the tricks from internet to bypass circle. Now the app is useless, they can do whatever they want. Please fix the bug, I still want to use this. I believe they use command line to bypass circle.

Not worth $50/year

OneMHz

Controls are purely based on device so no way to lock down a family computer for the kids while keeping access for the adults. And 90% of the devices in the list just show up as “unknown device” with no way to get more information. So unless I’m going one by one and blocking each device until I find what lost connection I can’t actually figure out what is what or who it belongs to. Service is barely more useful or easier than just setting up stuff in a hosts file.

Uncategorized and schedule

MR TARLETON

Need to be able to block ALL categories including uncategorized. IP ADDRESSES in numerical form seem to get an uncategorized designation Making them unblockable. We also need the ability to block individual sites on a schedule

Netgear devices don’t support.

GK from morrisville

If you paid for the subscription on a Netgear router, you are out of money chump. I spent over 6 hrs with their support or debugging on my own, no luck. Over 6 months after payment Apple Cs can’t help. @Apple if you are seeing this users are not getting the service they paid for.

Not worth it

Anbrockmeier

Most routers have this limited capacity already built in. Not Worth subscription

What this app did is SO WRONG.

A Caveman

Like many other parents, I bought a Nighthawk router largely because it came with this software and it delivered some useful features to set time limits, set bedtimes, etc. And while the app has always encouraged users to subscribe to a premium set of features, it never changed the basic set of features that were initially provided. Until now. Recently and without warning, most of the basic features of this app have been moved behind a “premium subscription” requirement. They are no longer honoring the advertising claims that were listed on the packaging of their very expensive router at the time of purchase. Think about what this means... * Every 5-star review praising this app is now deceiving. * Even the screenshots are now deceptive, showing features that were once available to the purchasers of their router without subscription, that have now been removed unless you continue to pay. * Parents who purchased the Nighthawk router specifically in order to gain access to this type of control have had the rug pulled out from beneath them unless they continue to pay. It is like taking the control you once had, and holding it hostage. You want it back? Pay up.

Not recommended

CM4532

I purchased the Circle 1st generation years ago and it worked ok. Unfortunately, the app kept getting tweaked so I had less control over what I wanted to do. Luckily I had a TP Link router and used that for the parental controls. Unfortunately that router died. I purchased the Netgear Nighthawk which included the Circle so I decided to try it again. I was frustrated by the limited features, but it was at least useful for something. Unfortunately, in the latest updates they have removed even those capabilities. They are trying to push us into paying the subscription, but I refuse to do so. As a mom, I speak to many other parents and have not been able to recommend this product because of my experiences.

HORRIBLE

Kevinkongdom

This app is just the worst thing ever. It ruins your teenager’s life :( DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!

WARNING DO NOT BUY

most cost money

MyCircle is not worth it. it is a terrible horrendous system. It can easily be bypassed. It is not worth the money since your children can bypass it. All it does is make your child sneaky. Your kids will hate you if you get this. Get this app off the app store.

I HATE THIS APP

jeieudndnsijsijsun62727188282

I’m in the middle of calling a friend when boom ur WiFi’s off TAKE THSI STUPID APP OFF THE APP STIRE

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