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.
I find it difficult to find the information I want and hard to sort things out. For example I will get a warning of blocked activity with a button for more information, but it just takes me to the website and I have to go looking through everything to find the information I want. I would also like to be able to lock my child’s device not just turn off the internet. Also when my child has used up their time it gives them an option to to ignore it and continue on, this defeats the purpose of setting limits, they should need parental permission to extend access to an app or access to their device. I’m not impressed so far and if things don’t improve I won’t be continuing to use it.
Developer Response
Hello Wisey, We’re sorry to hear that you’re not satisfied with our Parental Control App. Please note that we do offer the option to lock the device once the time is up, and your child shouldn't be able to continue using the device. In this case, could you please contact us via our website referencing this review. We would like to know more about this issue so that we can investigate further. Regards, Qustodio Team
Not worth the money
Lis35B
I installed the app on a recommendation from a friend. 5 day fee trial is insufficient to fully assess the functionality, considering its a child using the device, not an adult. Settings need to be worked out with some trial and error.The time restriction controls only allow on/off in 1 hour blocks, which makes little sense. Why not 10, 15 or even 30 min blocks?The lockout at night impacts the app icons on the Home Screen and affects sorting and folders etc. Its frustrating for kids and adults when the icon has moved The content filters are very strict. This might suit some parents or young kids but it blocks many legitimate sites. On a side by side comparison with my phone, there were many instances where I couldn’t see a reason why some sites or videos were being blocked.Finally, the reason I deleted the app and requested a refund, was that I removed all content filters on my child’s phone (as part of the comparison above) and content continued to be blocked. I figured this may have been due to a lag in changed settings, but even after a few days, the same sites/videos were still blocked. I can only assume this is a bug.I have since gone back to the inbuilt Screen Time app in iOS and to be honest it does a sufficient job. I think Qustodio is more suited for children less than 10 but for teenagers I think some controls can be wound back a bit. As such the content filters need to be more customisable and changes in settings need to work
Developer Response
Hi Lis, thanks for your review. Your feedback is highly appreciated and will help us to improve our ability to serve you and other users of Qustodio. We are always examining new ways to improve our Parental Control and we will share your opinion with our Development team to consider improving this with future releases. Thanks again, Qustodio.
I’ve been testing Qustodio on the three-day free trial, and so far, I’m not convinced this is the right tool for managing screen time and app usage. One of the biggest downsides is the inability to set different rules for different devices. For example, I wanted to limit app usage on an iPhone but allow it on an iPad, yet Qustodio doesn’t seem to support this level of control.Another major issue is the app blocking feature—it simply doesn’t work as expected. Despite blocking TikTok and X (Twitter), my son has still been able to access and use them, which defeats the purpose of having parental controls in the first place.At this stage, I’ll be exploring alternative apps for comparison, as Qustodio hasn’t proven reliable for our needs. If device-specific rules and effective blocking are important to you, I’d suggest looking into other options
Developer Response
Hello Alex, thank you for the review. Could you please contact us via our website (qustodio.com/help-contact-form) referring to this review? We would like to help you address these topics. Regards, Qustodio Team.
Not worth the money
pretenda
While it looks very pretty, it's missing some fundamentally basic features you need to help manage your kids devices. There is no app time restrictions (despite having an overall device time limit) nor is there a quick and easy way of timing out your kids devices. The helpful features are all hidden under a hierarchy of menus, which greatly slow down your ability to actually make any changes to your kids device. Not that it matters, it'll take up to 15 minutes for the settings to apply, enough time for one kid to smash the other in the face because 'it's not fair, why is mine blocked and not theirs!'On top of all this, the app time limits seem to not work correctly. One of my kids devices just chooses to block their access to Roblox when they've used all their time up the previous day. One surefire way to make your customers hate your products is to be woken up at the crack of dawn because 'my Roblox doesn't work!' this gets old very quickly. I've tried contacting support but short of a 'try uninstall and reinstall' and 'we've passed on your message to the product team' they aren't overly interested in helping. I've persisted with it for a while now, but I'm at my wit's end. If I could get a refund, I would.
Developer Response
Hello Pretenda,We understand how frustrating this must be, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Also, we are sorry for the support received. However, we're committed to finding a solution to your situation as soon as possible. Could you please forward your last email? We would like to know more about your issue so we can investigate this further and provide you with a precise response: qustodio.com/help/contact/ Regards, Qustodio Team.
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 182.41.0
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