[Secure Your Children Online Activities]: 5 parental control apps that let you monitor your kid’s online activity

With so much information and technology at the tip of kids’ fingers, it can feel exhausting for parents to try and keep up with monitoring their children’s online activity.

Between the internet and countless social media apps, keeping kids safe and knowing what they’re looking at online is a growing concern.

More to the point: Do your children hide their screens as soon as you walk into the room? If so, then they may be hiding something from you. Read on to learn how you can find out what it is.

From limiting screen time, blocking specific apps at certain locations and filtering what content kids can see, safety apps allow parents to customize to the apps to their family.

In the meantime, here are some apps that help parents monitor their kids’ online activity.

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Kaspersky Safe Kids

Kaspersky has a Windows, Mac and mobile app that allows parents to block certain websites and content and manage screen time and app usage.

A Facebook report informs parents when kids add new friends or make a post.

The program also has a GPS tracker and lets parents designate a safe area that kids can’t leave without parents getting an alert.

AppLock by IvyMobile

An app lock is an excellent way to keep kids out of apps on your phone. This is mostly for parents with younger kids who use the parent’s phone to watch YouTube Kids or play kids games. An app lock puts a password on your other apps. Thus, if your kids get back to the home screen and start clicking on sensitive stuff like your Facebook app or your banking app, they can’t get any further. We have a whole list of these, but IvyMobile’s is free and relatively simple to use. This should keep kids away from the sensitive stuff until they’re old enough to know better.

Find My Kids

Find My Kids is a lighter touch on parental control apps. This one keeps track of your child’s location at all times. You can see where they are, where they go, and where they’ve been. We like how simple this app is. You open it and can immediately see where all of your kids are. Some other features include notifications if your child’s phone is having trouble sending a location and you can see what apps they use. There are also some security controls, a battery monitor for your child’s device, and a family chat so you can ask them where they are. It’s surprisingly inexpensive compared to most of its competitors like Life360.

Google Family Link

Google Family Link is our first choice for parental control. Your kids get the freedom of using their phone and you get satisfaction of seeing everything. We recommend Family Link first because it has so many features and it also integrates directly into the Android OS itself, a feature none of these other apps have. Some of the features include the ability to see all the apps your kids use, see their location, see their usage habits, and you can lock the device if you want them to chill out on the phone for a while. The only downside is the set up process.

Safe Lagoon

Safe Lagoon is kind of a lighter version of Google Family Link, but can do some different stuff. You can view things like apps and games your kids use. Additionally, you can find their location, control time limits in certain apps and games, and lock the phone if need be. However, you can also do things like monitor instant messages, set up locations they can’t go, and do some other neat stuff. The app says it’s for cyberbullying, but you can use it for other stuff as well. It’s relatively simple to set up and it’s a good alternative to Google Family Link.

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