Qustodio Parental Control App

Qustodio LLC

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About this app

Awarded PC Mag’s Editors’ Choice, Qustodio Parental Control App makes parenting easier with daily screen time limits, app blocking, kid tracking, AI powered search and message alerts, social media monitoring, porn blocking and more.

- Screen time limits: Automatically blocks the device after the set time has passed.
- Family locator & GPS family tracker: Tracks your kid's phone and sends you the GPS location
- AI-powered message and search alerts: Monitors and alerts for any suspicious browsing activity, or harmful SMS and social messages.

Start by downloading this Qustodio Parental Control App onto your device. Then download the Kids App Qustodio companion app onto your child’s devices. Together, the apps allow you to seamlessly manage your child’s daily screen time allowance on linked mobile, tablet or desktop devices across platforms including Android, iOS and other major operating systems.

Protect your child’s online safety
✓ Filter content (block games, websites, porn, gambling)
✓ Receive alerts about web activity and blocked websites
✓ Block games & apps
✓ Enforce safe search

Nurture healthy habits
✓ Set daily screen time limits on all content
✓ Pause the internet at the touch of a button
✓ Set limits on games & apps
✓ Custom routines for apps and websites

Have full visibility
✓ Receive search alerts
✓ Receive SMS message alerts.
✓ Receive social monitoring alerts. (available WhatsApp, Instagram, and Line)
✓ 30-day online activity reports, as well as daily and weekly reports straight to your inbox
✓Receive app download alerts
✓ Monitor their Youtube activity
✓ Track and block unwanted calls and SMS messaging
✓ Supervise together: Invite another parent/guardian to monitor and set rules for your child (co-parent)
✓ Monitor on any iOS, Windows, Mac, Android or Kindle device
✓ Get up-to-date app insights

Locate your family
✓ GPS location monitoring (geolocation kid tracker)
✓ Find your child’s phone
✓ Locate kids on the move
✓ Share your location
✓ Save your favourite places
✓ Panic button for your child that can be installed on your child's device

Choose Qustodio’s basic parental control plan to access some of these features, or upgrade to the premium plan for full access to all features

How to protect, block, & monitor screen time with Qustodio Parental Control Apps:
1 – First download Qustodio Parental Control App onto your device (usually your mobile phone or laptop), create an account or log in
2 – Then install Kids App Qustodio on the device you want to supervise
3 – Log in and follow the quick setup instructions
4 – Once done, inappropriate websites will be blocked automatically
5 – To monitor activity and screen time use this Qustodio Parental Control App on a Parent’s device or log in to your online Qustodio Family Screen Time dashboard (https://family.qustodio.com)

Our FAQ:
• Does Qustodio Parental Control family screen time blocker app support Android 8 (Oreo): Yes.
• Does Qustodio family screen time blocker app work on other platforms besides Android? Qustodio can protect Windows, Mac, iOS, Kindle and Android.
• What languages do you support? Qustodio is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Japanese and Chinese.

For support. Contact us here: https://www.qustodio.com/help and [e-mail]

Notes:
This app uses the Device Administrator permission. This will prevent a user from uninstalling Qustodio Family Screen Time App without your knowledge.

This app uses Accessibility services to build an excellent device experience that helps users with behavioral disabilities set appropriate levels of access and monitoring of screen time, web content and apps, in order to limit their risks and enjoy life normally.

Troubleshooting notes:
Huawei devices owners: Battery-saving mode needs to be disabled for Qustodio.

Ratings and reviews

Terrible. Useless. None of the features worked. For example, I blocked all social media, but he had full access to everything. I got daily update emails that said he had no activity - I know he did, because he had been using his phone as usual. The location tracker never worked. It's fine to have subscription tiers, but what's the point of a free trial if you don't get to try ANY of the functions. Don't bother. I just used iPhone parental controls to block specific apps and games for now.

Not bad but could be better. For example: I've noticed with the text messages, if someone sends my child a picture through text, I don't know what the picture is or any text written with it, so the app can't alert to anything inappropriate or bullying. I also wish keylogging was an option, or screenshots to see what is being viewed, since it'll tell you that their Gallery is accessed but not what they're viewing.

Qustodio is way too expensive for the outdated. As a parent you can get alerts... By email. It's 2024. Even free apps can send push notifications. Most of the functionality is only accessible from the the web browser. You can't add extra time from the app, which is a core feature missing. Honestly... What's the point of even having a parent's app if it doesn't have basic functionality? Lastly my kids has no way to request more time or exceptions to rules. Cheaper apps work way better.

What’s new

Hi Parents!
We've made more improvements and fixed some minor bugs to make your Qustodio experience even better. As always, we recommend that you enable auto-updating in the Play Store so both your and your kids' apps are always up-to-date.
The Qustodio Team