Pioneering healthier technology
Carrots&Cake
From learning and focus to communication and healthier digital habits, Carrots&Cake creates calm, family-centered tools shaped over years of everyday use.
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A balanced approach to family technology
From learning and communication to routines, rewards, and first phones, each Carrots&Cake app is designed to support a different part of modern family life.
Carrots&Cake RoWardZ
Connects effort, responsibility, and rewards with intention.
Carrots&Cake Learn&Earn
Turns everyday responsibilities into opportunities for learning, rewards, and independence.
Screenlox
A one-tap screen lock that helps parents create clearer boundaries from anywhere.
Jabber
Turns an old iPhone into a safer, simpler phone that grows with your child.
Technology designed around real family life
We believe technology works best when it supports real life — helping families create healthier routines, clearer boundaries, calmer communication, and more intentional digital habits over time.
Family rhythm Learning, rewards, boundaries, and first phones working together. Healthier technology, thoughtfully designed
Focus Learning without overload
Technology should support learning and focus by reducing the distractions and interruptions that compete for attention.
Rewards Rewards with intention
Children build healthier routines when effort, responsibility, and rewards stay meaningfully connected.
Independence Gradual digital independence
The best technology grows alongside children — supporting communication, boundaries, and independence over time.
Built through years of conversations with families and experts
Over the years, our products have been shaped through ongoing conversations with parents, educators, and experts in child behavior, learning, and digital wellbeing.
Dr. Adam Pletter, PsyD
Child PsychologistCarrots&Cake helps children build healthier relationships with screen time.
Dr. Clifford Sussman, MD
Child PsychiatristCarrots&Cake creates healthier balance around technology use.
Dr. Gweneth Jackaway, PhD
Leader, Digital WellnessCarrots&Cake helps technology fit more naturally into family life.
Carrie Rogers Whitehead
Founder, Digital Response-Ability, AuthorFamilies benefit most from technology that supports real-world routines and relationships. That’s what Carrots&Cake does.
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Built for the moments families navigate every day
Learn&Earn Homework before YouTube
Create space for focus by reducing the distractions competing for attention.
Jabber A first phone without overwhelm
Give children communication independence in ways that evolve over time.
Screenlox Clear boundaries when they’re needed
Set routines, pauses, and limits remotely without turning technology into constant conflict.
RoWardZ Rewards that feel connected to effort
Help screen time, allowance, and rewards stay intentional rather than automatic.
Practical screen-time reading, always moving.
Research, setup advice, and parent-friendly explainers for building healthier digital habits at home.
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