TOP 5 Best Parental Control Software For Home PCs and Phones 2022 Surpasses 67 Million Downloads
By Dana -
Kids have easy access to the digital world today, but without any restrictions, they might be exposed to inappropriate content. With parental control software, parents can have peace of mind that children are surfing the internet safely. Parental control apps can set healthy boundaries for kids’ device use by monitoring their online activities, restricting the time usage, filtering the web, tracking location, and more.
We’ve looked into many paid and free parental control apps, and picked the Top 5 best parental control software for PCs, Macs and mobile devices. We also have read their pros and cons from numerous user reviews and summarized the most mentioned ones below. In addition, here are more brands we considered, which have less downloads and similar features, including FamiSafe, REFOG Personal Monitor, Net Nanny, Mobicip, KidLogger. If the Top 5 best parental control apps don't fit your needs, you may check those ones out.
"Support Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Kindle, Chromebook, create daily/weekly screen time schedule for each device"
"Good for time restrictions, facebook monitoring, recent YouTube search, individual app and game restrictions on desktop and mobile, content filtering, set time schedules, view app time usage"
"Location monitoring, SOS button on Android, get notification when kids arrive or leave the specific location zone, has 30-day location history"
Total Downloads: The total download data are referred from 9 top download websites, (CNET Download, Softonic, UPtodown, Soft32, Softpedia, MajorGeeks, Software Informer, Downloadcrew, TechSpot). And some products' download data are calculated both the free and paid versions. Lowest Price - The one with the lowest total cost of listed products BestSeller - ColorMango top-selling of listed products Top Brand - The one has lowest alexa rank of listed products' brand websites. (The rule is the lower the number, the better) Google Search Rank #1 - Ranked #1 in Google Search results of listed products (Searched by incognito mode on 4 computers)