Top 5 Parental Control Apps for Mobile Devices

 

Your child is very much unsafe in the predator-filled world that is the internet. As a parent, it’s important that you control what your child consumes – particularly in their formative years.

The best parental control apps help you achieve this goal, enabling you to control and observe what your kids do on their phone. In this article, we identify 5 of the best parental control apps to make parenting a tad easier for you.

1. Qustudio

Qustudio is one of only a few apps that work fairly comfortably for both iOS/Mac and Android/Windows. The app has a friendly interface and lets you successfully block apps and texts, set time limits, track location, set safe locations, and filter web content for your kids.

2. Norton Family

Norton Family is one of the more customizable apps on this list. Amongst its primary offerings are web filtering, time schedule, location tracking, and app, text and call blocking. Like most apps in this category, though, it works better on Android than iOS.

3. OurPact

OurPact is one of the best performing parental control apps we ever used. Its geofencing feature works great, as does its app management, time scheduling, location tracking, and web filtering. Unfortunately, it doesn’t filter more than porn on browsers and currently struggles on iOS.

4. Kaspersky Safe Kids

A bargain parental control app, Kaspersky provides excellent monitoring capabilities for parents. Its free plan enables web filtering, app management, and time schedule. And its premium version further allows geofencing, call/text management, and even YouTube management. It does work better on Android and Windows, though.

5. ESET Parental Control

ESET Parental Control specializes in allowing parental control on Android devices. The app works great for location tracking, time and app management, and geofencing. You may take some time understanding its user interface, though, and you’d have to do without text/call management.