Kaspersky Safe Kids with GPS Ratings and Reviews

Good but could be much better

The app works as advertised and is overall pretty reliable. That’s after I found that my kid was simply doing a factory reset of his phone to get rid of it. We had to have a talk about that.

I’m primarily interested in the device usage limits, which are unfortunately rather limited. It’s either total daily usage, or allowed hours, but no combination of both or anything more powerful.

I have searched and tested other parental control apps, and didn’t find any other that reaches even that level of functionality, so this does the job.

Finally! Something that works! ❤️

I desperately need a parental control software that work.
My teenage kid’s grade had deteriorated so much that it was just a pain to see his grades.
I literally had to stay behind him during his zoom classes to monitor him all day.
It’s ridiculous.
I bought several softwares, different subscriptions and plug-ins.
My kid was smart enough to disable them or bypass them all.
One day I just couldn’t take it anymore.
I decided that was it and went ahead and did my research .
I found Kaspersky safe kids and immediate pull out my wallet.
(Really, just take my money 💰... as long as it works)
AND IT DID! HA!
Kaspersky really knows what they’re doing.
I can now limit my kid’s access to a certain websites during a specific hour,
or just disable the computer completely.
I get instant notifications when he tries to access websites that are not recommended or forbidden.
It does take some time to break into it.
If you need to set a schedule you have to set it one day at a time.
However it works so well that I don’t even care that much.
Also it would be nice if I can edit websites lists within a category.
But I can use the exclusion list and that’s enough.
All in all, I’m so happy for the purchase and it really is a godsend!

Was great UNTIL…

They created a hidden category called “racism” under the “safe search” option (which is supposed to block inappropriate content - you know, like porn?! - from search results).

I only discovered it because my daughter searched for the term “nationalism definition” for her history class and it wouldn’t let her search because it was in a “restricted category called Racism”. First of all, why are we pushing political bias with this app? Nationalism is not racism. Secondly, why is it hidden? The all gives parents lots of choices regarding what categories are allowed or restricted, things like violence, profanity, adult content, gaming, etc. as is reasonable for such an app. But the company gets to put other hidden categories in “safe search”? Sorry, that’s super dishonest. What other hidden categories are there?

Too bad, because this was a decent reasonably priced app. But my subscription is now cancelled. I guess I’ll be starting the search all over again. Sigh.

Developer Response ,

We are sorry to see that our app didn't meet your expectations.
We strive to regularly update our products, making them better. Hope to see back with us someday.

Has potential....if only it worked

Planned to use Safe Kids to protect our iMac and childrens’ iPads. Installation was simple enough and price is reasonable. We soon realized that the iMac protection wasn’t working when my child was able to access the Mac during times that were blocked. The device reports showed that he accessed the Mac during a restricted time, just did nothing about it. My other son faced another issue and couldn’t use the internet at all on the Mac due to Kaspersky certificate issues. Contacted support and their response times are abysmal and so far haven’t fixed anything. To add, the iOS versions don’t actually block device use, just warns which does nothing but send the parent a bunch of emails. There is a flaw in the app design where you can’t restrict time of day to use AND restrict amount of time used. It has to be one or the other which isn’t ideal. I ended up cancelling the subscription and uninstalling everything.

Kaspersky is great, but the iOS app is broken

I have Kaspersky on my Mac and most of the time it blocks stuff with no issues. The iOS app had trouble loading my account when I tried to set it up, so my dad had to create a new account for me and switch to that. The browser is slow, brings in ads, and often fails to load anything below the fold. Familiar swipes to go back and forward in Safari are missing, DuckDuckGo is not an allowed search engine, and any time the app pulls an update it forces a parent to put in their password to continue normal use. Worst of all, the app requires device location to be set to always on, resulting in tremendous battery loss even while sleeping to report location to parents who can already see where their child is using Find My Friends. I will be switching back to Safari and disabling all sites but a few whitelisted ones. Sure, the freedom to browse was nice, but I’d much rather be limited to a few sites in the blazing fast Safari app.

Developer Response ,

Dear customer,
We would like to investigate the issue and resolve it.
Please submit a ticket to our Tech Support through your Kaspersky account: log in at https://kas.pr/6s6V and click 'Support' - 'Technical Support'.
Thank you in advance!

Horrible!

I wish I could give 0 star or negative. My husband signed up without researching so we had to suffer for a year and I sent multiple feedback to them how much I hated it.
My husband and I both installed this app to monitor our son. When my husband set up something, it didn’t show up my phone and when I set up something, it didn’t show up his phone. It confused all of us and we constantly had to sit down and talk about what restrictions we were going to set up. Then when my son request to unlock the phone, my phone kept showing ‘ updating’ FOREVER. ( my phone is iphone xr) It was so frustrating!!! Plus we couldn’t limit time for individual app. Literally, there was not much I could do with this app and I was even mad at my husband to pay for this useless app. At the end, we just deleted it.
Do not buy this app. It was a waste of money( there are many free apps!) and waste of time and energy!

Developer Response ,

Hello! We are sorry for such a poor experience. If the situation is still relevant, please contact us at https://kas.pr/6s6V - our agents will get everything sorted.

Constantly forgetting sign in information after each update makes it a nightmare

The app is great for tracking my son. My greatest issue with it is that after Avery three to four days I see that my son’s device is offline and the reason why is because of the frequency of updates each week which makes you sign in again on sons device and download the Kaspersky profile once again. I just didn’t renew after my year was up because of this. I mean, I don’t mind updates to app, updates make it better, but in this case if the app is going to need you to sign in after each update, maybe they should dial down the updates to at least once every three weeks to a month. For now I’m not going paying for it. The high maintenance of the app makes it not worth my time.

Developer Response ,

Good day!
Sorry for all the inconvenience. Please contact mobilesupport@kaspersky.com so we may assist you. Thank you!

Very ineffective Girl

If you want a free app for location tracking, Life360 is a much more accurate and informative app. I will start by saying we use iOS and while life360 has figured it out on iOS and Mac, this app is worthless. Their free app is obviously just click bait to get you to buy the paid app all while collecting data on you and your family. I simply wanted to use location tracking and monitor how much screen time my son was using. The updates were not real time and interface is poorly designed. That is when it worked at all. For any worthwhile info it sends you back to the website. This is not really something you should expect to use as an app on iOS or Mac. Maybe if your primary interface was a pc and your family used androids it might be a somewhat useful app. Also, don’t expect to get anything out of free version.

Developer Response ,

Hello,
Even though there's always room for improvement, we quite like our GUI. We'd be happy to forward your feedback to our development team if you add more details to your comment about what should be improved and how. Thanks!

Fatal Flaws in iOS 13

Loved the app and service in theory. The GPS monitoring is great. However the internet monitoring and filtering on iOS 13 is about as secure as putting your money under a mattress. It cannot control, nor hide Safari. Nor does the security pin lockout work to prevent the child from uninstalling the protection. In the words of its customer service, you must encourage your child to use only the Kaspersky Kid Safe browser, not Safari and to not remove the internet profile (now easy to do) by explaining to them how important internet security is. Right, thanks. If us parents could successfully do that we wouldn’t need parental control software. And if your software is effectively neutered under iOS now, it is best to mention that on the outset in the App Store and not bury it on a support page.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback.

This is not working well

Recently, the program wouldn’t update with any changes made in the app until I force closed the app and restarted it. It looks like they might have finally fixed that, but what they still haven’t fixed is that once a week or so I’ll notice that my child is using their device well past the time what it’s supposed to be shut down. Granted, most of the time it works fine, but most of the time is just not good enough. Also, the interface is garbage, but I could get over that if the program just worked properly 99.5% of the time. But, sadly, that’s not the case. It really seems like the people in charge of this system just aren’t trying. If things don’t improve very soon, I’ll be taking my business elsewhere.

Developer Response ,

This looks like a synchronization issue. We would like to troubleshoot it.
Please submit a ticket to our Tech Support at kas.pr/6s6V
Thank you in advance.