Mobile Device Safety (Student Cell Phones)
The Best Parental Control Apps of 2022 by Safewise
The Best Parental Control Apps for Android and iPhone 2022 by Tom's Guide
- Things to consider
- Focusing on cell phones, but most all work with tablets and computers
- You get what you pay for. Consider making the yearly cost part of the cell cost.
- Choose what works best for you
- Most options available for Android devices
- iPhones are most difficult to monitor, but few options do exist
- YouTube Kids is a great option for elementary students
- Net Nanny App Advisor is a great free resource with info on Apps
- This is an ever changing area of technology due to constant Android and iPhone device updates. Best to use most recent reviews.
- Monitoring vs Management or Control
- Bark Parent Control
- Bark Review Information Here
- More features for iPhones than other solutions
- Unique as it saves you time with it's AI scanning by only alerting you of flagged activity. Builds trust since it doesn't log everything vs other platforms.
- Provides text message monitoring for iPhones
- Monitors more social media platforms than other providers
- One of the very few providers that monitors email
- Snapchat and TikTok monitoring available on Android, but not iPhone. However the apps can be blocked.
- 7 day trial, use code WORDBIRD for one month trial
- Net Nanny
- Net Nanny Review Information Here
- Known
for it's web filtering on both Android and iPhone
- Has more features on Android over iPhone
- Net Nanny Protect for apps applies it's filtering to social media
- No call or text logging like most other platforms
- Qustodio
- Qustodio Review Information Here
- Great for Android Devices
- Call and text logging with Android only
- App blocking works better on Android over iPhone
- Social monitoring only for Facebook
- Lacks features on iPhone
- OurPact
- OurPact Review Information Here
- Great design and navigation
- Known for their app controls blocking/allowing
- Web filtering could be better
- No call or text logging for either platform
- MMGuardian
- Kaspersky Safe Kids
- Norton Family Parental Control App
- MSpy