Child Monitoring Android
One last feature worth mentioning is an SOS button. When a child presses this button, it sends out an alert to the parent and any other trusted contacts. The notification includes time and location information and will (in some cases) keep broadcasting said data until either the child deactivates the alarm or the parent disables it from their own account. This works regardless of platform and even if a child has run out of their allotted time. Parents who are worried about always being reachable to their kids in case of emergencies should consider Qustodio and Locategy for this reason.
Spyzie is undoubtedly one of the best child tracking apps that every parent should use. After installing on the smartphone used by your kids, you can keep a track of their location without much trouble. Not just that, you can also access their smartphone’s data (like browsing history, messages, photos, etc.) as well. This will help you keep them safe from cyber bullying or any other unwanted situation.
You can't set up a geofence, and you're unable to remotely lock a device the way you can with PhoneSheriff. Net Nanny also doesn't offer much insight into your child's texting habits, but the ability to monitor social-media activity is built into the $60-a-year Family Pass.
Norton Family Premier, PhoneSheriff or ESET offer more parental-control features than My Mobile Watchdog. Still, the $100-a-year service offers some appealing capabilities and lets you manage up to five devices.
App blocking works differently on iOS. You can block access to system apps such as Safari, Camera, and Siri, if you wish. You can also disable the iTunes Store and App Store, and ban in-app purchases. Some parental control apps can ever remove app icons completely from the home screen, so there's no chance your kid can access them.
Some services, including Locategy, Boomerang, and FamilyTime, go one step further, letting you construct geofences around a location. For the uninitiated, geofences are digital boundaries around a physical location that help parents keep track of when a child arrives at or leaves a given location. Kaspersky Safe Kids even lets you add a dimension of time to a geofence, so you can easily make sure a child stays where they are supposed to be throughout the day. Boomerang offers a unique feature, in that you can draw custom geofences on a map; others just create a circular radius around a point you define.
Qustodio is easy to set up, and managing filters for multiple users is a snap. The service really shines with its ability to set time limits for individual apps. It's easy to monitor texts from Qustodio's admin panel, and you can block texters and callers directly from the screen where you review text and call logs. Qustodio's website-restriction and location-tracking features are limited, but overall it's a good value.
Apple recently announced Screen Time for iOS 12, which adds an excellent set of monitoring and restriction tools. Apple's built-in (and free) solution is also account-based, meaning that it keeps track of data across all of a child's devices. Apple already included a good range of app-blocking and web-filtering options within the Restrictions section of its main settings app. Taken together, this means that when iOS 12 is released later this year, Apple will have a native (and near-complete) array of parental monitoring capabilities, which rivals the for-pay offerings of competitors.