So I got this for my 12 yo hoping to identify if he was searching for things that were inappropriate. I already have family share on my IOS so he can’t put an app on without my approval and we have set times he can use it so scheduling was not an issue but I was worried about his internet searches. This was advertised as something that runs quietly in the background and can either alert a parent or block questionable items. Set up was fairly easy. My major complaints are the fact it randomly kicks him off of the internet until he goes through and taps an “click here to turn on z- app”. It’s very annoying and a constant reminder I’m “watching” him. The biggest issue is that when it sends you an alert about inappropriate search it won’t pull it up when I click on it to see what he is looking for. It just sends me to some coding page or it says internal failure. How am I supposed to talk to him about what he’s looking at if I can’t see what he’s looking at and there is no description!! It just says inappropriate content viewed. That could be a million things.. Lastly, it does drain the battery very quickly and it would be a lot easierTo set time limits if you used actual time and not minutes or at least have that as an option. As in stop internet at 7:00 instead of add 7 hours.. Don’t get me wrong, I get everyone parents differently and these options may work for some families, unfortunately I don’t think it will work.

At first it seemed to make the kids devices unusable and appeared this would be useless. But after some tweaks it’s functioning ok. I suggest having a little patience and working through the kinks with support and suggestions on their site.You can change settings so that things aren’t necessarily blocked but just alerts issued to the parent app. For example, their filters “alerted” me to something “provocative” that my 14 year old daughter had searched for. The search was for “southern boys names”, not especially provocative in my book so I’m glad I just have it set to alert rather than unnecessarily blocking things. It is nice to be alerted to certain flagged searches though, suicide, etc. which are of genuine concern.Sometimes the child app seems to randomly disconnect from their VPN, which is pretty easily reset, but is inconvenient and temporarily renders the child device and parent monitoring useless. However, I would rather have my kids be mildly inconvenienced and myself feel more comfortable with some level of filtering/monitoring in place.It’s definitely not as seamless as the built in iOS Screen Time, but does have some extra features which that does not. For divorced parents who do not want to be part of the same Apple family sharing (Screen Time not an option) it’s the best alternative that I have found.I do wish it had the ability to set time limits on specific apps or app types like Screen Time does, to me this is a significant drawback that seems like it could be implemented easily.

This app is awful. My parents got it for me to make sure I wasn’t on any inappropriate websites. However, it rendered my phone almost useless. It took ages for anything to load on my phone. I couldn’t send attachments over text, even just pictures. I would always have so much trouble searching things on safari. My snaps would never send either. In addition, it constantly gave me notifications that I had stopped the app when I didn’t, the app was still open and I hadn’t done anything to alter the settings. I then had to go into the app and wait for it to reset. It was extremely embarrassing for me, having to go into the app in front of my friends. It also blocked me from websites that were nowhere near inappropriate. It once blocked me from a tutorial on LED lights. I was constantly going to my mom, asking her to fix the settings because at least twice a week, it would render my data completely useless and I couldn’t do anything. Both she and I would get so frustrated trying to fix it. One of the worst things was that it drained my battery. I don’t use my phone that much, maybe an hour and a half during the school day, and my phone would be dead by the end of the day. I wasn’t able to communicate with my parents since my phone was dead. This app is a complete invasion of privacy and takes away all trust. It was an inconvenience for all parties involved.

After a lot of research I chose this app because it had good reviews and would allow me to control my 4 childrens’ phones/iPads. I was looking for something that would allow me to shut down devices with a click or block apps in the same manner. From the description given this app should do these things when you have the subscription. I installed and went through the setup process for all kids, after I finished I wanted to test out the usefulness of the ‘pause device’ feature. Sitting next to my 5 year old playing his iPad, on the same Wi-Fi and with all of the setting in the appropriate manner I changed his setting to pause device. It did not work, I thought it might need a minute to process so I waited, after about 10 minutes still nothing. After I started clicking through everything on the app to start figuring out settings, come to find out quite a few of the features do not work with iOS devices making the subscription a complete waste for my family. I am now back to square one on trying to make devices safer for my kids and to help us all better manage their screen time.