Parental Controls
What We Considered:
- Range of features
- Website and mobile app experience
- Parental reviews
Easy Set Up
Qustodio: Parental Controls
$96.95
/ yearly
What we loved
- Qustodio is our favorite all-around parental controls app for millennial parents who expect a well-designed and intuitive mobile app experience. We particularly enjoyed how convenient it is to manage the controls.
Best for
- Parents who want to put Internet access guardrails on their l children’s smart devices.
Why others agree
how it works
“ Qustodio, an impressive parental control utility, boasts just about every feature you might want, including web content filtering, robust app blocking, and a detailed activity log.”
Best Mobile App
Circle: Parental Controls
$129.00
/ yearly
What we loved
- Circle connects to your home's Wi-Fi, so you can set controls on your kids' hardwired devices, like video game consoles. One application of this is putting time limits on gameplay.
Best for
- Parents whose children spend too much time playing video games.
Why others agree
3rd party review
“For kids who use multiple devices, computers, tablets, gaming consoles, Circle works on all of those to keep track of time and then turn it off….You can do the kill switch on Fornite parents!”
Unique Use-Case
Angel Sense: Special Needs Monitoring
$69.00
/ yearly
What we loved
- Angel Sense provides peace of mind by allowing you to track family members with special needs, such as those with autism.
- It has friendly location monitoring with live GPS tracking viewable from the mobile app, and you can receive alerts when your child is in an unexpected place.
Best for
- Parents of children with special needs.
- People with elderly parents with a penchant for wandering.
Why others agree
How it works
“The AngelSense delivers the absolute maximum in tracking and safety for worried caregivers of children and adults with special needs."