Best Apps To Monitor Phone Usage
Verizon Wireless subscribers can use the My Verizon app to check official data usage against plan limits. It works best with recent or unlimited plans. The My Verizon app offers basic data monitoring capability, and you can:
Netsanity is one of the most comprehensive iPhone parental monitoring apps out there. It can run on other iOS devices as well (like iPod touch or iPad). With it, you can monitor every activity of your family members on their mobile remotely. It can also be used to filter or block inappropriate content.
One of the best apps for surveillance and monitoring your kid’s activity on their phone, Mobistealth will make sure that you create a nurturing space for your family online. It also comes with plenty of other features like monitoring of contacts, chat messages, web browsing, emails, etc. It also provides a real-time update on location with its premium geo-fencing technique.
ESET has a decent parental control app, but it’s just for Android devices. The free version offers app blocking, time limits on games, and basic reporting. The premium version gives you website blocking, location tracking, parental messaging, and more detailed reports about what they’re doing. The parental message feature is a clever idea. It allows you to send out a message that your child is required to respond to before they can continue using their phone. You can try the premium features for free for 30 days, but then it costs $30 per year.
“Right away, I noticed that I was way off in my own estimation,” Holesh said. He estimated he was spending 45 or 55 minutes a day on his phone, and his fiancee thought her use was around 60 minutes. They both ended up clocking in around double those numbers, he said.
Qustodio is user-friendly, efficient, and excellent for parents who are short on time. It offers a dashboard that shows you all recent mobile activity for any connected device, including time spent on specific services like Instagram or Twitter. From there you can set time limits, track texts, filter out racy sites, and block any game or app. A high level of customizability makes it a great parental control app to use when managing devices for kids of multiple ages, and it also works on Kindle or Nook devices, which is rare.
It has a comprehensive dashboard that can be accessed from anywhere. Also, with PhoneSheriff, you can perform an extensive iPhone monitoring for parents by setting time restrictions or filtering content. It can also provide details about photos, videos, and any other kind of content that is present on your kid’s iPhone. You can get this product for $89 a year.
Want to send a strong message when your child repeatedly ignores your texts and phone calls? Ignore No More is an app that locks kids out of some of their favorite activities — texting, playing games, surfing the web, and looking at Facebook — until they call Mom or Dad for a four-digit password to unlock their phone. It's a better option than taking your child's phone away because he'll still be able to make emergency phone calls to you or 911 even when his phone is otherwise locked. The app costs $5.99 per phone and is currently only available on Android devices but will be available on iPhones soon.