Category
Lifestyle
Assisted Choices
Trend cluster
Category
Family
Tech
Family-focused apps cater to adults seeking a more harmonious life.
3.7
Trend score
Trend
What is the Family Tech trend?
Family Tech: While planning a family is often a prime objective for most middle aged adults, figuring out how to balance between work and family can be daunting. Apps dedicated to satisfying both harmoniously are, at this point, a necessity for consumers who are not willing to sacrifice quality or quantity from any facet of their life.
Trend themes
Themes within the Family Tech trend
Three behaviours holding the trend together01
Integrated Parental Control Apps
Apps such as OurPact which offer more flexible parental control options that mirror daily routines and schedules create unique opportunities for innovation in the parental control industry and related device security industries.
02
Apps for Family Time Management
As more families incorporate technology into their lives, time management apps like Squarehub and Time to Roam provide opportunities for development and innovation within industries concerning activity planning, parent-child scheduling apps, and even online family social media platforms.
03
Tech-Enhanced Family Dinner Apps
DinnerCall provides new opportunities for innovation in the culinary industry, while providing the chance for smartphone apps to not just focus solely on social sharing, but also to encourage offline interactions and conversations.
Industry implications
What the Family Tech trend means for industry
Where the trend changes the playbookFor
Parental Control and Safety Industry
Integrated parental control apps provide fresh impetus for tech innovators to develop and better sell products to safeguard young children's digital experience.
For
Personal Scheduling and Time Management Industry
Apps for family time management offer opportunities for tech innovators to capitalize on the explosion of personal scheduling apps by targeting multi-generational families who can benefit from integrating specialized features for their routines.
For
Food and Home Cooking Industry
Tech-enhanced family dinner apps provide wide-ranging opportunities for app innovators to develop and market complementary products, enhancing family dinner interaction in the process and contributing to healthier eating habits and social dynamics.
Trend signals
Trend signals for Family Tech
Trend score 3.7 out of 10, from popularity 68%, activity 37%, freshness 8%.
Popularity68%
Activity37%
Freshness8%
Audience
50%Men
50%Women
- Gen Alpha (not a primary audience)
- Gen Z
- Millennial
- Gen X
- Boomer (not a primary audience)
Market
North America
Europe
Asia-Pacific
Evidence
Examples of the Family Tech trend
5 featured examples from Jan 20, 2013 to Oct 27, 2015CategoryBusiness
Digital Family-Organizing Apps
Squarehub is a Family Calendar App That Makes Planning Easy
Disruptive innovation opportunities lie in the development of user-friendly and feature-rich mobile apps specifically designed for family organization and logistics management.
CategoryTech
Time-Restricting Apps
OurPact Manages Parental Control Settings Based on a Child's Schedules
Disruptive innovation opportunity: In the industry of mobile app development, there is potential for creating innovative time-restricting apps.
CategoryLife-Stages
Child-Translating Newspaper Apps
The Tokyo Newspaper Develops an App to Translate News for Kids
Opportunity for media companies to develop child-friendly news apps and revitalize print media for younger audiences.
CategorySocial Good
Familial Dinner Apps
DinnerCall is a Family Dinner App That Aims to Make Mealtime Special Again
Opportunities for app developers and designers to tap into the potential of social and family-oriented apps like DinnerCall to promote meaningful engagement by users.
CategoryTech
Family Adventure Apps
This App Helps Busy Families Connect and Foster Deeper Connections
Opportunity for app developers to create innovative solutions that help families disconnect from technology and prioritize quality time together.
