Age suitability and family safety

Dichoptix is designed for children aged 4 and over with amblyopia or a related binocular-vision condition, and for adults with amblyopia, who use it the same way. It is meant to be used alongside the care an eye-care professional provides, never instead of it.

An adult creates the account, agrees to the terms, subscribes, and sets the glasses up once. After that a child can play on their own. The adult account holder decides how much and how often; questions about that belong to the child's eye-care professional.

The app is rated 4+ in the App Store, meaning it contains nothing objectionable for any age. It is not listed in the Kids Category and is not designated Made for Kids.

Dichoptix is a collection of short mini-games played with red and cyan glasses: each eye sees a different part of the screen, so the two eyes have to team up to play. The action is gentle arcade play: fitting shapes into a grid, slicing fruit, steering through a course, digging for gems.

There is deliberately none of the following:

Children never create accounts. Registration, consent, and payment are all done by an adult, and the app is built so a child cannot reach them.

Anything that involves money or account settings sits behind a parental gate: an arithmetic question a young child is not able to answer. That includes the purchase step on the subscription screen and the Account area where an adult manages the account, consents, and preferences. The gate is not a parental-controls feature and the app does not verify anyone's age; it has no content that would call for either.

The only data the service needs is how the games went: time on task and which games were played. That is stored on our own servers so a parent, and any eye-care professional they choose to share with, can follow play activity. It is collected as part of the service the adult account holder signs up for, and the account holder can withdraw that processing at any time from the account settings on dichoptix.com. Nothing is shared with an eye-care professional unless the account holder connects one and agrees to share.

Optional diagnostic and usage data, the kind that helps us find crashes and fix problems, is switched off by default. It stays off unless the adult account holder chooses to turn it on, and it can be switched off again at any time. It is not needed to use the app.

We do not show ads, we do not use advertising networks, we do not build advertising profiles, and we do not sell personal data. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy, and an account and all its data can be deleted at any time from the app or the website.

Use the app in a comfortable, well-lit place and take breaks. Stop and speak to a professional if the child has eye strain, headache, dizziness, or any discomfort.

A small number of people can feel unwell or, very rarely, have a seizure triggered by flashing lights or patterns. If the child or anyone in the family has a history of seizures or photosensitive epilepsy, talk to a doctor before starting.

Dichoptix is not a medical device. It does not diagnose anything, does not treat anything, does not replace professional advice or treatment, and does not promise a particular result. The dichoptic design is based on published research; the studies are listed, with links, in the Learning Center article that the app's Research and sources link opens.

If you are a parent, a guardian, or reviewing the app and something here is not clear, write to us at info@dichoptix.com and a person will answer. Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy cover the same ground in more detail.