After using Google's family link app for years for my children, my wife and I'd finally had enough of the limitations from Google and the lack of personal help to fix minor bugs and issues with various features setting boundaries on chromebooks and other devices for our children. Qustodio caught my attention after reading some reviews from both children and parents and I tried it out and was more than a little surprised. It spans nearly every device and platform out there, and it is intuitive and simple. Not only that, but it has unlimited numbers of children you can supervise and unlimited devices, whereas family link is severely limited to small families and few devices. The only devices our children have that Qustodio can't supervise yet are apple watches and we sure hope they will add that to their large list available! We quickly discovered how limited our ability to set device boundaries were for our children's time and devices after using Qustodio... We have far more ability to set boundaries with this app than with family link. Qustodio is robust, simple, and straightforward. So far, no glitches and the customer service is fairly personal and quick as you have folks ready to assist you. We are more than happy to pay a yearly subscription fee for this excellent and life altering service (as protecting our children is a life altering service in our minds).

Parents please hear me out: As someone who has been through several depression episodes THIS APP MAKES NOTHING BETTER AND INFACT MAKES EVERYTHING 10X WORSE THAN IT ALREADY IS. My parents already check my phone at night and I don’t mind that. What I hate is this app. It monitors everything I do and say on my phone, and will in fact not make your child better but just sneak things around because they have overprotective parents. What happened to trusting people? I understand if your child has depression or something like that but I promise monitoring them just makes them feel like they aren’t even trustable anymore and they never will be. I am just a teen and have never had kids so if I had a kid struggling I would hear them out about what there struggling with instead of hopping to conclusions and blame the phone and treat them like toddlers because they have a problem completely out of their control. To the parents who just want to keep their kids safe please avoid this app and just go through their device because I promise that you don’t need to know every single message or exactly the amount of time they have been on a app. Let the child have the privacy that they deserve. Thanks for reading

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.