A parent and two children smiling together at a kitchen table while using a phone.

A phone that still feels like childhood.

Fabric is three apps for Android: texting and calling with contact approvals and time budgets.

For the first solo walk to school. The ride home from practice. The goodnight call from a sleepover.

See how it works
Fabric Parent Approve contacts and set time budgets.
Fabric Messages A kid-safe texting app.
Fabric Phone A safer dialer for kids.

More room for childhood

A phone that helps kids grow into independence.

Fabric gives kids the parts of a phone that help them grow: making plans, getting picked up, calling family, texting a friend. You set boundaries as your kids learn to navigate the online world.

Kids feel trusted. The people they know are easy to find with clear boundaries.
Parents feel confident. Unknown and blocked contacts, time limits, and protection are handled clearly.
The phone feels smaller. Keep your kid's phone focused on safe communication.
A parent greeting a child after practice while holding a phone.
Made for real life. Fabric works with standard SMS/MMS and cellular calling on Android.
Child overview

Everything for one child, in one place.

Open a child's profile to check texting and calling budgets, pending requests, and app health, all easily displayed in a single location.

Family rules

Straightforward policies.

Trusted, limited, pending, and blocked mean the same thing across texting and calling, so everyone knows how rules are applied.

Contact requests

Keep track of who your kids are communicating with.

Kids can ask for additional permissions from the app and add a note. Parents can approve the contact and add limits, or block the contact until they have a conversation with their child.

Kid-safe texting

Texting looks familiar, with seamless policy enforcement.

Fabric Messages shows which conversations are trusted, which have limits, and which still needs a parent decision.

Kid-safe calling

Calling is safe and parent-managed.

Set up trusted contacts to always be able to reach your child, but set time limits for friends so that your child can learn to manage their time and phone use responsibly.

For kids

Still your phone. Still your friends. Less weird stuff.

Fabric is made to feel like a phone you actually want: get independence to make plans, call home, coordinate practice, and say goodnight. We'd know – we have elementary, middle, and high school kids ourselves who regularly use these apps and tell us when we don't get something right.

Trusted friends Text and call approved people within the rules your family set.
Requests are built in Need someone new? Ask from the app with a quick note.
No surprise mystery numbers Block spam and report harassment easily.
Do kid stuff Bike rides, sleepovers, practice pickups – your parents are there when you need them.
A child sitting outside after school with a backpack, helmet, and phone.
Understand the policies your parents set. See exactly where your parent has set boundaries.
A parent reviewing a phone while a child does homework nearby.
Parent in the digital world. Teach your kids to navigate communication the same way you already do for in-person interactions.

For parents

Built by parents for parents. Tested daily by our kids.

Fabric replaces a child's default SMS/MMS and phone apps on Android, then syncs parent-approved contact rules to the child device. Parents can set trusted, limited-time, or blocked contacts, then review requests from your kid directly from Fabric Parent.

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Uses standard phone networks Kids can send SMS/MMS texts and place calls to approved contacts with their existing phone number and service. No additional phone plan required.
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Grows with your kids We've created several defaults that work well with our elementary, middle, and high-school kids. Need more personalization? We've tried to make things as customizable as possible.
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Party in the front, business in the back You're trusting us to keep your kids safe, and we take that seriously. No one has access to your family's private communication or sensitive info about your kids – not even us.

Simple family pricing

One subscription covers the whole family.

Fabric is $4.99/mo for every kid and every device in your family. Parent controls, kid-safe texting, and kid-safe calling are all included.

Unlimited kids Add children as your family grows without paying per child.
Unlimited devices Use Fabric across the Android devices your family manages.
All three apps Fabric Parent, Messages, and Phone work together under one subscription.

Privacy-first by design

You own your data. We never sell or share it with anyone.

Fabric is a control plane. Family rules, requests, and child metadata sync fully encrypted. SMS/MMS bodies, call and voicemail audio, and call logs stay off Fabric servers.

Read the privacy policy support@offbyonelabs.io
Family data stays private. We don't have access to any of your family's private data from our servers, and we'd never use anything for advertising.
Encrypted family controls. Policy and request payloads are encrypted before Fabric stores or routes them. Only you and your child have the keys to decrypt this information.
Privacy-minimized heartbeats. Child apps check in with our servers so that you have confidence that your kids are protected. We don't abuse this trust for anything else.
Read the privacy policy support@offbyonelabs.io

Fabric.

Fabric Parent, Fabric Messages, and Fabric Phone are available on Google Play for families who want connection, confidence, and a little more childhood left in the day.