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Free Parental Monitoring Apps For Android
“I looked all over the web and tried to find relevant Android parental controls for free. But my friend gave me advice to try Pumpic. He showed me how it worked on his own mobile phone and I was really amazed how many kids’ activities he could actually track. I decided to give it a shot. I use it all the time. I’m very satisfied with the app.”
If you have a teenager or a minor who use their own Android device, then you can have a complete control over their phone with this app. Though, it faces a few technical glitches at times, which sometimes make the remote access feature inaccessible.
Kids Place parental control is a free app. However, there are some additional premium features, which become available only after an in-app purchase. With a pay version, you will be able to run Kids Place in a background mode, block uninstallation of the app, use an option to always start on reboot, and set a customized title for a home screen.
Most of these browsers operate similarly in that they block access to websites that fall under banned categories, including all the biggest offenders, such as file sharing, gambling, pornography, and violence. The best examples have no trouble picking up on HTTPS-encrypted traffic and blocking access to anonymizing proxies. Some apps, such as Net Nanny, let you create custom web-filtering categories, and the vast majority let you add specific rules for custom domains. The quality of web history reporting also varies from service to service. Qustodio shows previews of the sites your child visits on a timeline and contextual options for setting rules, while FamilyTime Premium does not support web supervision at all.
Parental control apps can help you maintain control in a wide variety of ways. Some of the most common types of monitoring include web content filtering, app blocking, time management, and location tracking. We dive into more detail about these top features (and a few more) below. Keep in mind that some of the products we highlight are mobile-only solutions, meaning that they cannot monitor your child's activities on Macs or PCs. If these platforms are your greatest concern, make sure to check out our roundup of the best parental control software.
Child Monitoring System
As today parental control is closely connected to the issue of mobile gadgets use by kids, Limitly can be of great help here. It's especially helpful when parents need to keep their children focused – at school, while doing homework, at bedtime or during family events. Moreover, one shouldn't forget that limiting screen time can have a positive effect on kids' sleep and health.
Most parental control apps require you to pay for an annual subscription based on the number of devices you monitor. Prices range anywhere from $10 to $30 for monitoring one or two devices and go all the way up to over $100 in some cases if you want 10 or more licenses. That said, there are some exceptions. Some services, like Locategy, operate on a freemium model, albeit with some limitations that don't apply to the premium edition. Others, like Kaspersky Safe Kids and Norton Family, do not restrict the number of devices that you can monitor or child accounts that you can set up.