Approved People
Inside Gulino, your child sees only the people you approved — and can reach you.
A calmer phone experience for kids
Hand over a family phone without handing over everything.
For the moments when your child needs a phone, but not their own. Turn Child Mode on for a simpler experience with the people, apps and tools you choose.
Turn Child Mode on · Hand it over · Take it back when you’re done
Gulino
Safe. Simple. Made for Kids.
Calm by design
Technology that does not ask for more attention than it needs.
Calm by design
Intentionally simple.
Gulino is intentionally simple. It gives children the tools they need without competing for more of their attention.
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Simple on purpose.
Clear screens, predictable interactions and fewer things competing for attention.
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Less stimulation. Fewer distractions.
A calmer interface keeps the focus on what the child came to do.
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No endless feeds. No streaks. No engagement tricks.
Gulino itself has no feeds, rewards or artificial engagement loops designed to keep children coming back. What an app you approve does inside it is up to that app.
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Only what the parent chooses.
People, apps and tools appear because the parent decided they belong there.
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Designed for use, not engagement.
The goal is simple: use the phone, then get back to everything else.
Less distractions. More of what matters.
Only what the parent chooses
Turn Child Mode on. Hand it over. Take it back when you’re done.
Instead of starting with a full smartphone and blocking things one by one, Gulino starts with the people, apps and tools you have chosen. Inside Gulino, your child sees those — and nothing built to keep them scrolling.
Setup is guided: Gulino walks you through becoming the phone’s Home screen and, if you want messaging, its messaging app. It takes a few minutes the first time and a moment every time after.
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Choose
Choose the people, apps and tools your child can use. You do it once; you can change it any time in Parent Mode.
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Hand it over
Turn Child Mode on and give the phone to your child. Their Home shows People, Messages, Apps and SOS — not a catalogue of locked things.
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Take it back
When you’re done, exit Child Mode with your Parent PIN and return to your regular phone experience. Your apps, accounts and data stay as they were.
When to use Gulino
Leaving the kids with grandparents for a few hours?
Turn Child Mode on, leave a family phone with them, and choose the people, apps and tools your child can use. Grandma does not have to learn your phone, and your child can still call you. When you’re back, exit with your Parent PIN and return the phone to regular use.
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A few hours with grandparents.The people who matter are close at hand; everything else waits.
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A car trip or a flight.Music, a game you approved, a camera — and no app store at 30,000 feet.
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A restaurant or a waiting room.Enough to pass the time, nothing to disappear into.
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Visiting family, a weekend away.A phone your child can be reached on, without your whole life inside it.
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A spare family phone.Set it up once and hand it over whenever it is needed.
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A first phone.Gulino can also stay on a spare or first phone for longer-term use. Grows when you decide.
Inside Gulino
A phone experience designed for your child.
While Child Mode is on, Gulino gives your child what matters, without the usual smartphone clutter.
Four buddies
They choose the buddy. You choose what the phone can do.
Guli, Capi, Owli and Axi change the artwork, never the rules. SOS looks the same in every one.
Guli
Capi
Owli
AxiCore experience
Useful things, without the clutter.
The things a child actually needs on a phone they were handed for an afternoon.
Calls & SMS
Keep calls and messages focused on the people you choose.
Approved Apps
The child sees the apps you have chosen for them — not a catalogue of forbidden ones.
SOS
One clear place to ask trusted contacts for help. SOS is assistive software, not an emergency service — what it can and cannot do.
Essential tools
Flashlight, alarm, calculator, camera, photos and Wi-Fi stay easy to reach.
Parent Mode
Parent settings stay behind parent authentication.
Multilingual
Gulino speaks your family’s language.
Available in 20 languages, so the child experience can feel familiar from the first screen.
See available languages
Protection
Clear about what the phone can and cannot do.
What Gulino does on the phone you hand over.
Standard setup
The Gulino experience on a compatible phone — the family phone you already have. The phone’s own system still controls parts of the device, so some system screens may remain reachable.
Your phone stays yours
Gulino can always be removed, or its app data cleared, from the phone’s own Settings — even without the Parent PIN or the Parent Account. That ends Child Mode and returns Gulino to first-time setup; the phone’s other apps and data stay as they are. How it works.
Protection depends on the phone, its software version, the permissions granted and how it was set up. Gulino does not claim that every bypass is prevented.
Works with the phone you have. Gulino works best as the primary child experience on the phone. If another parental-control or device-management system already manages the Home screen, messaging or calls, some phone-level protections may remain under that system’s control. More in the FAQ.
Built by parents. Made for kids.
Designed with a parent’s perspective. Built around a child’s world.
Gulino started from a simple parent problem: how do you give a child enough independence to call, be reached and use a few useful apps — without handing over the whole smartphone?
We built Gulino around that balance, because we live the trade-off too. Children need independence. Parents need simplicity, control and confidence.
Simple for the child.
A home screen with four things on it, and nothing to get lost in.
Clear for the parent.
You approve people and apps once; every time you hand the phone over, Gulino remembers.
Room to grow.
Keep Gulino on a spare or first phone and add more as your child is ready for it, instead of taking things away.
Safe. Simple. Made for Kids.
Use the phone. Then get back to life.
Questions about Gulino, a device or a setup? Get in touch.
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