Kaspersky Safe Kids with GPS

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Let you block or just monitor app and web by specific app or site or via broad categories. Kids can send a request to unlock things they need, and you can approve or deny remotely. Can track location and usage statistics. Can set schedule and time maximum on app by app basis so if you want to allow games at specific times or for limited hours you can. Would be nice to be able to grant temporary usage of a site or app. Does nearly any thing you need for kid safety.