Bitdefender Parental Control

Bitdefender

About this app

Bitdefender Parental Control offers digital help to parents and extra online safety to children.

Download and install the Bitdefender Parental Control app across your children's devices to easily manage and monitor their online activities using the Bitdefender Central platform.

Set up healthy, age-appropriate online habits for your kids and review their activity with the array of features tailored to promote a balanced digital lifestyle while preventing overuse and exposure to inappropriate online content:
✔ Content filtering
✔ Internet time management
✔ Location tracking
✔ Preset and customizable routines
✔ Rewards and Internet time extension
✔ Safe Search and YouTube restricted mode

Content filtering. Use the predefined, age-appropriate filtering categories to prevent exposure to inappropriate content or make your own adjustments to guide good online habits.

Internet time management. Control the allowed daily internet time limit across your child's devices and reward extra screen time for responsible online usage.

Location Tracking. Make sure your kids are OK even when they're not by your side. Track their location so you always know where they are.

Preset and customizable routines. Children strive when they have routines they can follow. You can set up Focus time, Family time and Bedtime routines to create a tailored schedule for each of these activities.

Safe Search and YouTube restricted. Remove explicit and harmful results from search engines and videos to ensure results are age-appropriate.

Note
Bitdefender Parental Control requires a VPN connection to provide Content Filtering and Safe Browsing functionalities.

The Device Administrator permission is also required to prevent uninstall.

Previous versions may require the Accessibility permission to monitor and manage browsing activity.

Ratings and reviews

This is the most disappointing thing about getting a Bitdefender subscription. Everything else seems to be really good, but evidently parent controls are an after thought.. The app on my kids device blocks everything regardless if it has permission to be used. I wish this was more like XBOX, that a painless process to give access to a specific app/game..I was really looking forward to the location alerts that would have been helpful..as it stands I had to uninstall the app, to get anything to work.

There's a reason this app has such a low score. It is appalingly bad at what it's meant to do. I've had it for years now but it's never worked properly. I've spent countless hours with the customer service team trying to fix the many issues, without success. An app that's been broken for years but still doesn't work after thousands of people point it out, isn't worth your time or money. The recent "update" made things even worse. This app is an afterthought and absolutely useless.

Do NOT use for parental controls too many bugs. Would give negative stars if possible. Unable to track, data doesn't show latest location for several hours st a time. Unable to block access to phone every time it's needed. Insecure controls due to browser use. Please do not consider this app if you want your child to remain SAFE