A whole computer for your kid. And you keep the keys.
Play, study, draw, code, browse. Gamoo OS puts all of that on a real PC — and leaves the decisions about how much, when and what to you.
What Guardian Mode does
The foundation ships in the beta: separate child profiles that can't install software or change the system. Everything else below is on the roadmap and marked that way. You turn it on for a child's profile, and only there — your own profile stays an adult account on a system with no restrictions at all.
You are in charge
The parent is the computer's administrator. Each child gets a full profile of their own — not a cut-down copy of yours — and can't install software or change system settings without you.
Agreed screen time
A daily limit and time windows, bedtime included. When an exception makes sense, you grant extra time on the spot with your PIN.
Safe browsing by default
Content filtering at the PC's own network level, safe search and restricted YouTube — switched on from the start, with age-based levels you can adjust site by site.
Age-based catalog
Kids only see apps that suit their age. When they want something new, they ask from inside the system and you approve it — or not.
Far beyond games
Writing and slides, drawing and painting, block-based coding and learning games. The same computer handles homework and the match after it.
Reports stay on your machine
You see how much time was spent and on what. That history lives on your computer, not on a server of ours — and goes nowhere.
Nothing about your kid leaves your home
Local-first, zero telemetry — reports stay on your machine.
No cloud required, no account required. There is no dashboard of ours with your family's habits, because that data never reaches us.
If a feature ever needs the internet to work, it will be optional, ask for your consent and say exactly what it sends — as data protection law requires when the data belongs to a child.
An agreed limit, not spying
One way to do parental controls is to hide a watcher on the child's machine. That isn't ours. Kids know there's a limit, see how much time they have left and have a way to ask for more — or to ask for a new app.
The result is a PC that feels like theirs, with a clear deal on top. It's the difference between a rule and a trap, and it changes the whole relationship with the computer.
And there's a technical detail that doubles as a safety feature: the system is immutable. A child can't break Gamoo OS by installing random things — and if something goes wrong, you roll back to the previous version of the system.
Questions every parent asks
Do I need to know Linux to use this?
No. You install it, create your profile and your child’s, and set everything else up through regular screens — no terminal, no config files.
Can my child turn the controls off?
The system is immutable: a child has no way to change what the controls rely on, and anything sensitive asks for your password. If something breaks in normal use, you can roll back to the previous version of the system.
Can you see what my child does?
No. Local-first, zero telemetry — reports stay on your machine. No account required, no cloud required.
Is it for teenagers too, or only young kids?
Both, because you set how strict it is. You can keep only screen time and safe browsing on and open up the rest — or switch Guardian Mode off when it no longer makes sense.
What if I just want to game, without any of this?
Then you never turn Guardian Mode on. It ships switched off: in everyday use, Gamoo OS is a regular gaming system with nothing childish about it.
Guardian Mode is still being built
Being honest is part of the deal: child profiles are already in the system, and the rest of Guardian Mode is the wave we're working on now. Whatever is marked on this page as roadmap is what it will become, not what you can use today.