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.
Start by downloading this Qustodio Parental Control App onto your device. Then download the Kids App Qustodio companion app onto your child’s device or devices. Our two monitoring apps work together to give parents all the tools they need to protect their kids online and encourage a healthy, balanced digital presence.
Parents, with Qustodio Parental Control App you can:
Protect your child’s online safety
• Filter web (block games, porn, gambling and block all unwanted content)
• Receive alerts about web activity and blocked websites
• Block games & apps
• Enforce safe search (filter out inappropriate results in search engines such as Google, Bing, YouTube)
• App insights
Nurture healthy habits
• Set daily screen time limits
• Schedule restricted times
• Pause the internet at the click 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
• App download alerts
• Monitor Youtube activity
• Track calls
• Supervise together: Invite another parent/guardian to monitor and set rules for your child (co-parent)
Locate family
• GPS location monitoring (geolocation kid tracker)
• Find your child’s phone
• Locate kids on the move
• Share your location
• Save your favorite places
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
Qustodio Premium family parental control & screen time app is available with an annual subscription. Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon purchase confirmation and any unused portion of your free trial period will be ended. Your subscription will renew automatically and at the same cost unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. To avoid being billed for an additional period, subscriptions must be canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and set auto-renewal to off by going to “Settings” on your iPhone or iPad.
If you have any questions or need help, contact us at info@qustodio.com
We take privacy and the protection of your family and children’s data extremely seriously. We do not and will not sell data to third-parties. Your child’s screen time activity is for your eyes only.
Our Terms of Use are available here: https://www.qustodio.com/family/terms/
The Qustodio family parental control & screen time app is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese Dutch & Brazilian Portuguese.
Been using this for a while on my 14yr old son’s PC. Did the trial that ran out and the free version was fine for what we needed it for. Recently he’s been on his phone a lot during class. iPhone’s Screen Time apparently didn’t work so before spending money I swapped the Qustodio protection to his iPhone to block use during school hours starting yesterday, 8:20-2:40. First issue is the time intervals, hour blocks don’t work for most schedules. I had to pick 9-3pm because he’s still commuting at 8am and I want him to have access to his stuff and didn’t want to end it at 2pm because he’s still in class. At the very least there should be 1/2 hr blocks if not 10mins! Another immediate issue when he got to school, when he was in class he needed to take a pic with his phone (Film class) then upload to Google Classroom…except it was blocked on his phone because it’s all or nothing. There’s no way to “always allow” particular apps! Not limits, which are of no use when the phone is on lock down. I asked why he didn’t use his school Chromebook and he said because he took the pic from his phone. Fair enough. I had to take off the block to let him do that then put it back on. Decided to pay for the small package thinking I was limited because I was using the free version and nope. Same thing. There’s really nothing more I need with the paid version that I didn’t already have, like location tracking and app limits. Messaging and call tracking don’t work on iPhone anyway.
Developer Response
Hi,We are sorry you are not having as smooth an experience with Qustodio as we’d like. Could you please contact our Customer Support team to provide them with more details about the issue you are facing with your child's devices? They will be more than happy to help walk you through the solution: qustodio.com/help/contact/ Best regards,Qustodio Team.
Very helpful
nmcro
We have used this app for over 2 years. For the most part it has been a very helpful tool when it comes to keeping our kiddos accountable for their screen usage and for blocking unwanted temptations and trolling. We use it along with Screen time on their iphones and as the main monitoring software on their microsoft laptops. I know others have commented that it doesn’t work with Screen time, but we found that if you set allow on each ios app inside of Qustodio, screen time does it’s job on the iphone well. We use it on iphone to keep track of the total time they’ve been on a screen throughout the day. We have 2 major complaints with Qustodio. First, the time zones are not correct. So if you use the restricted times on your devices every thing gets thrown off by an hour. Example, they have PT at 8:00 with MnT at 7:00. We live in Colorado and these times should be switched. Second, their calls and messaging monitoring only works sometimes. You have to us it from a laptop or desktop and you have to leave your computer on all the time. If you shut it down or close your MacBook you lose the connection and have to reset everything in order to start monitoring again. At the moment the program is turning itself on and off by itself on my macbook, so am trying to completely delete it.
Developer Response
Hi, Thank you for sharing your experience with Qustodio! Your opinion is very important. If you have any questions or need our assistance deleting Qustodio from your MacBook, please contact our Customer Support Team via our website: qustodio.com/help/contact/ Regards, Qustodio Team.
Not worth it
EYR37
I don’t feel like this has been worth the large sum of money I spent. I liked it as a free tool for one teen but having paid as much as I did you would think it would be more reliable and have more convenience. You can’t specify different time limits for different apps. It was useless for the first 5 months while my kids were in school on their devices because It was all or nothing. I’m regularly having to give my kids extra time because Qustodio says they used all their time but they swear they haven’t used any. I look at their activity to show them and Qustodio shows no activity for the day, as does Screentime, so then I have to just give them more time in all fairness. How does it say they used up all their time but on nothing?! I find it inconvenient when I’d like to encourage them to spend time on educational apps by allowing separate time on that. I find it a huge hassle that if there’s a random odd day where I want to allow them online after our usual rule I have to change the rule completely then set it again instead a simple button to extend their time. It shows me what their search activity is and blocks certain websites I wouldn’t want them on which is good but is that worth 100 something dollars? Not really.
Developer Response
Hi there. We are very sorry to hear about these issues you experience with Qustodio. We would like to take a closer look if you could please contact our Customer Support team via our website? Regards, the Qustodio Team.
to parents
abbi_d11111
im a 16 year old. you'd think- "wow, you must have freedom with your technology just like all of the other kids your age!" incorrect. since my parents got this app, it has driven our relationship apart, embarrassed me around my friends, made me feel left out and outcasted, and given me a general complex that ive always done something wrong. im too scared to look up certain things that are essential for me to know out of fear that my parents will see it. all my friends have freedom with their phones and i dont. my privacy has been violated constantly. my brother has a history of using technology to look up things he should NOT be exposed to so young, and my parents use this app to try and prevent him from continuing these habits (he still does it. the app doesnt stop it). i also got this app because of him. it's so frustrating feeling like i cant be trusted and that ive always done something wrong. i feel constantly guilty. multiple times, my parents have taken the restrictions off through their app just for my phone to not function properly afterwards. they've had to remove it and reinstall it three times. the app is glitchy and slow. i had to get an entire new phone because the program was causing my phone to be unresponsive. it is NOT worth it- the hassle, the money, the relationship with your child.
Developer Response
Hello Vincent. We encourage you to discuss your screen time and other rules and restrictions with your parents. We believe that together you can find mutual agreement on what is best for you.
Hi Parents!
We’ve made exciting changes to the look and feel of our app, as well as made it easier to set rules for your child.
As always, we recommend that you enable auto-updating in the App Store so both your and your kids' apps are always up-to-date.
The Qustodio Team.
Version 182.35.0
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