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Keep Track of Your Child with These Amazing Parental Control Apps

Society has taken sharp turns with connectivity and interactions across new-age technology devices and platforms. This has led to the rise of challenging situations for parents. With toddlers handling mobile and smart phone devices (clubbed with fast and easy internet connections), an unknown world lurks behind us. Parental-control apps for cell phones are becoming important in limiting and preventing children from accessing adult content. Smartphone Application Development Companies are coming up with apps that can be used by parents to limit, monitor, control and restrict access in terms of time (of usage), app install, app usage, data usage, etc. Parents are using parental control apps to restrict browsing time for their kids. MMGuardian, PhoneSheriff, Funamo, Net Nanny, Norton Family Premiere are good parental control apps. Here is a list of few popular ones that will come in handy for you:

MM Guardian Parental Control

You can block texts, incoming calls and also monitor other activities on your device with the help of MM Guardian. Your Smartphone requires smart controls and you can achieve great success with this app. You can locate your child’s phone and lock it using a text message. You can apply time limits and generate daily reports on your kid’s phone usage. You can restrict websites on your child’s phone.

This app comes with a free 14-day trial offer. Subscription charges are $3.99 for a month and $34.99 for a year’s usage.

You can buy the app for $49.99.

Have a look at Playstore for reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmguardian.childapp

Toddler Lock

This app provides for a screen lock on your device disallowing your child to accidentally unlock your mobile device. However other apps cannot be restricted or put on filter. A combination of apps can give you complete solution in content filters and limited usage for your toddler. This is a free app.

PhoneSheriff

This is a popular app best suited for Android enabled devices. Using filters and blocks are difficult but easy installations are not advised when you are seeking quality and reliability. PhoneSheriff has strong location features like geofencing. Logs for browsing and texting are enabled. A panic button is available that sends alerts to a child’s contacts about his/her whereabouts.

Available for an annual cost of $89, PhoneSheriff will be able to track three devices at one go. You will have a wealth of information at your fingertips. It is tough to install this app but the features are extremely easy to handle. This app works well for monitoring people of all age groups. The panic button is regarded as one of the smartest features (as you can receive alerts on your child’s location) provided by PhoneSheriff.

Funamo

Parents can filter and monitor activities on android devices. Content on other android devices can be filters. Child-safe browsing can also be enabled with the help of this app. Calls, usage time, texts, adding other apps, browser filters and time restriction filters can be managed. This app comes with a 2 day trial and can be purchased for $19.99.

Net Nanny

There are restrictions and ‘content controls’ enabled in this app. Net Nanny allows browser restrictions and ‘content access management’ via remote access. As a parent you can control your teenage kid’s accesses on the mobile device. You can add other apps. This is ideal for teenagers and toddlers. In-built mobile browser powered by Net Nanny can mask profanity on non-restricted websites.

This app is available for a free 14 day trial when your Android device remains fully protected. You can subscribe for an annual cost of $12.99 and for one device.

Norton Family Premiere

This is possibly the best web monitoring app developed by Apple. iPhone and iOS enabled devices will be able to perform effective location tracking, use robust website content filters for providing browsing restrictions and age-based profiling for creating suitable web filters. Smartphone App Development has taken a new turn with the new-age apps.

Norton Family Premier is a good choice if you are looking to drive your kids away from doubtful website content. Available for an annual fee of $50, excellent filtering tools fit well with iPhone’s built-in Safari browser or the Norton browser.

Famingo

Users are presented with a ‘sandbox’ like environment that disallows visit to the Android store. There are specific apps that can be enabled along with Famingo. Famigo Wowzer is a browser designed solely for filtering content used by kids. Parents can control and add other apps. In-App purchasing can be turned off. Built-in browser content filtering option is also provided.

Famingo is available for a 7 day free trial. At a subscription rate of $0.99 per month and an additional subscription offer of $4.99 per month basic features along with extended features can be availed as per one’s requirement.

There are various other parental control apps (such as AppLock, Screen Time and Safe Browser that have similar features like the ones discussed here) that are available in the market. The Playstore remains flooded with daily parental app updates from mobile app development companies as there is a growing need for kid safety in web browsing.