Qustodio Parental Control
Qustodio helps families live smarter online and beyond, by providing easy-to-use and powerful digital safety and wellbeing tools.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Parental Control Tool
- Internet Filter
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
What is Qustodio Parental Control?
Qustodio helps parents protect their kids online. See how they use the Internet, set healthy access limits, and protect against dangerous or inappropriate content, cyberbullying, and online predators. A tool for peace of mind in today’s complex multi-device, multi-platform world. Parents can use the Qustodio parental control app on their device or the web-based Family Portal dashboard to monitor kids' activities in real-time. Setup is quick: simply download the Qustodio app to kids' devices and start the automatic supervision.
FEATURES Extended reporting Receive a full 30 day breakdown of your child's activity directly in your inbox on a daily or weekly basis.
Block pornography Qustodio’s real-time internet filter blocks inappropriate content even in private browsing mode.
Balance Screen Time Easily set a time schedule or limits for how much internet time is allowed each day.
Control Games & Apps Set time limits for games & apps or block apps you don’t want from running altogether.
YouTube Monitoring See what your child searches for and watches on the YouTube Android app and YouTube website. Android, Windows, and Mac devices only.
View Social Network Activity Monitor time spent on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more.
Track Calls & SMS for Android See who your child calls and texts most, read SMS, and set a list of blocked contacts. Android devices only.
Family Locator Find your child on the map and know where they have been. Available for Android and iOS only.
Your Places Your Places is a feature within Family Locator that uses geofencing technology, acting as a virtual 'fence' that helps you keep track of where your kids are. That means you'll be able to save your family's favorite and frequently visited places and you'll receive a notification whenever family members come and go from one of Your Places.
Panic Button for Android Add an SOS button to your child's Android smartphone that will send you location-based alerts if there's trouble.
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Qustodio Parental Control Features
Qustodio Parental Control information
Supported Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese
- Chinese
- Spanish
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Tags
- content-control
- reduce-screen-time
- Internet Filter
- geolocation
- screentime
- youtube-monitoring
- cyberbullying
- content-filter
- internet-filtering
- limit-internet-access
- Family Location Tracker
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Duncan Briggs reviewed Qustodio Parental ControlQustodio costs from $54.95 / year to $137.95 / year, but I’m looking for content-control software without a recurring fee.
- Duncan Briggs replied to a comment / review on Qustodio Parental Control
Qustodio costs from $54.95 / year to $137.95 / year, but I’m looking for content-control software without a recurring fee.
- Duncan Briggs replied to a comment / review on Qustodio Parental Control
Qustodio costs from $54.95 / year to $137.95 / year, but I’m looking for content-control software without a recurring fee.
It's really nice how they let you customize it so much and it works for so many platforms. Really good interface the way it is easy to install on a computer and administer remotely via web interface, unlike ContentBarrier which gave me so many struggles. But in practice it seems to have some big holes - it's apparently quite difficult to fight against the big search gateways who integrate themselves deep into the browsers. My kids have still frequently been able to get to Youtube and Google even when they are blocked, somehow - reloading the pages over and over, etc. Other sites were blocked properly. Another thing I'd like to see - a list of the search terms that were entered (NOT broken up into a "cloud" of single words - how silly), especially for Google but also Youtube and any other site.
I found this software as an alternative to K9 Web Protection via this site. It was the first alternative I tried, and has worked the best for me.
Create an account on the web site, add your kids, download the software, and install it on the device(s) and provide your credentials during the install. I only tried this on a single PC for all my kids, and it worked flawlessly without having to futz around with constantly logging in to the software. It just works.
The only issue that I came across is that the 'Safe Search' option forces youtube in to restricted mode, which I found after a bit of trial and error. I logged a ticket about it, asking them to mention it in their docs/wiki, and they said they would. They responded to my ticket the following business day, as their support terms say.
The premium trial period is only 3-4 days. The free version only allows 1 child on 1 device.
After trying to unsuccessfully test Norton Family, and semi-successfully tested Net Nanny, I came back to Qustodio and purchased a subscription.
i didn't quite agree with the app and fdor the 2 months that i used the app, it used to freeze every now and then. I had to log out and log in again which was really frustrating. also, the location tracking features need an overhaul. location history reports are not very easy to understand and unless you get the hang of the app, it will take around 5 minutes to get to the info you need. i'd give better rating to FamilyTime even though it doesn't have all the features like Qustodio but the major plus for Familytime is that it's really fast and the web interface is really cool. I hope these guys do something quick about the new features but so far what they have is brilliant.
when need update, monitoring was suspended.
Qustodio costs from $54.95 / year to $137.95 / year, but I’m looking for content-control software without a recurring fee.
https://www.qustodio.com/family/premium/
Compare to OpenDNS Family Shield which is free.
https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/
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Also, compare to Cold Turkey which costs $39 (one-time purchase –– not recurring).
https://getcoldturkey.com/pricing/
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I blocked the File Sharing category in Qustodio, but it this did not block The Pirate Bay [0] and Seedr [1].
[0] https://thepiratebay.org/index.html [1] https://www.seedr.cc/files
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From the Qustodio menu, I selected "Update rules," and this solved the issue with blocking the File Sharing category.
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I added several websites to the block list on the Websites tab of the Web Filtering page of Qustodio. It correctly blocked most of these websites, but it incorrectly allowed some of them (e.g. nytimes.com). I emailed technical support about this issue, and they assigned it request number 448153.
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I discovered the Plucky parental control app. It has a delay feature which Qustodio does not have. When I allow an app or website, Plucky does not prompt for a password. Instead, it waits for a given length of time. Then, it puts the change into effect.
https://docs.pluckeye.net/delay
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I installed Qustodio on the afternoon of Tue Aug 8. Unfortunately, it did not report web activity or block websites. Their customer success team said, "[P]lease note that Qustodio is not compatible with other Security Software, like Antivirus, VPN or VPN extensions, and other Parental Controlling apps in computers since they all are security software that will interfere with Qustodio's functionalities."
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Qustodio can only set restricted times to start and end on the hour –– e.g. 9pm not 9:30pm.
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As recommended by the customer success team, I uninstalled antivirus and VPN software, and I disabled Screen Time. Unfortunately, Qustodio is still not reporting web activity or blocking websites.
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I have been using Qustodio for over a month now and am pleasantly surprised by its abilities and how it approaches parental control. Installation and configuration is a breeze and once that's done, it tracks data silently. I have used a lot of such programs but this one has served me the best so far.