Attention
Where time and focus go across the day, and which surfaces pull the most of it. Built to show patterns a household can talk about — not to police minutes.
How it works · on-device by design
How Rooted Reality works. On your devices, not ours.
Rooted Reality is a local-first desktop app for households with kids and teens. It reads the everyday activity it sees on your own devices, turns it into posture signals you can read at a glance, and hands you calm context and a conversation to have. Activity in, signals and guidance out — and none of it leaves your machine.
Rooted Reality · On-Device Loop
Activity in · signals out · nothing leaves
01The loop
Activity in, guidance out.
The loop is short, and every step of it runs on your devices.
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Activity, seen locally
The desktop app reads which apps and sites your kids actually use, on your household's own devices. That activity is the raw input — and it stays on the machine it was seen on.
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Posture signals, three lenses
Activity becomes posture signals you can read at a glance across three lenses — attention, trust, and readiness — each with its own confidence, never a single number to chase.
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Guardian context + practice
Signals surface as calm context for you and as age-tuned conversation prompts your family can practice with. The app helps you start the conversation; it does not hand down a score.
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A tool for when it matters
The same open data behind our app reviews — how apps are rated by age, and how youth-protection laws differ from state to state — is what becomes action on your own device. The moment your kid opens an app rated above their age band, you get a one-tap, guardian-suggested pause: your call, never automatic, and your child meets a calm moment, not a locked door.
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Nothing leaves the device
Household activity, readiness data, and signals are never uploaded to Rooted Reality. The whole loop runs on your devices — by design, not by policy.
02Signals
Three lenses on the same activity.
The same on-device activity is read three ways — each answers a different household question, and each carries its own confidence so you see both the signal and its limits.
Trust
The posture of the apps and surfaces themselves — how they handle moderation, privacy, security, and youth protection. This lens is fed by our public reference-library reviews.
How we review the apps →Readiness
Patterns that show where a child is building digital judgment, and where an open-ended conversation would help. Every prompt the app can show is published, verbatim.
Readiness methodology →03From signal to conversation
Signals you can act on.
Signals are only useful if they help a household act. Rooted Reality gives the guardian — you — calm context on what changed, then offers age-tuned conversation starters drawn from a published catalog. It is readiness practice, not an alert feed: open-ended prompts you can choose to use, tuned to your child's age, with every prompt listed in the open so nothing is hidden.
See every prompt the app can show →04On your devices
It runs on your devices.
The scoring runs on the desktop app. The signals stay on the desktop app. The only things that leave your home are a short, published list of housekeeping calls — license checks, signed updates, the block-list refresh — never your household's activity.
See exactly what does and doesn't leave your home →Activity in. A signal and a conversation out. Nothing else leaves.