Apple, Google, and Microsoft offer robust solutions that balance kids' freedom with parents' ability to monitor them online. We help you find the right parental control app to keep your kids safe online, for free.
7 months
PC Cop secures the private information that's loose on your PC, so even if malicious software gets past your antivirus it won't find any juicy data to steal.
6 years, 1 month
AVG Family Safety offers the same comprehensive parental control as Editors' Choice Bsecure Online, but (for now) at a lower price.
6 years, 1 month
ZoneAlarm SocialGuard warns of potential dangers in your child's Facebook account without compromising the child's privacy.
6 years, 1 month
WebSafetyPC monitors every instant messaging service and warns parents of sexting, cyberbullying, and other dangers.
6 years, 1 month
This impressive parental monitoring solution installs invisibly and reports all activity on the child's computer. Parents can configure settings and view reports via the Internet.
6 years, 1 month
PC Pandora 7.0 installs in stealth mode and monitors every little action your child takes on the computer.
6 years, 1 month
Spector Pro 2011 is almost indistinguishable from earlier editions feature-wise. The biggest change? More glitches in testing.
6 years, 1 month
AVG Family Safety (for iPhone) blocks an impressive list of inappropriate content and malware, and lets you monitor your child's mobile browsing behavior. It's a very good deal for the price.
6 years, 1 month
By setting up OME-Kids email accounts for your children, you can give them access to spam-free email, while keeping a watchful eye on their correspondence. As kids get older you can give them more privacy.
6 years, 1 month
Care4teen uses an unusual crowd-sourced filtering system to keep your kids away from bad websites, but it needs a bigger crowd to improve its accuracy. Various other features don't quite work; wait for the next version.
6 years, 1 month
Most parental control systems have evolved to support the modern multi-device family. Unfortunately, KidsWatch Professional 7.1 seems to be stuck in 2008.
6 years, 1 month
When you configure your router to use SafeDNS, you can filter out dangerous or objectionable content for every device that connects using your home network. Just don't expect a full range of parental control features.
6 years, 1 month
Porn Terminator promises to wipe your system clean of porn images, videos, and more. In testing, though, it missed a lot of porn and flagged tons of innocent images.
6 years, 1 month
Free parental control service MinorMonitor reports on your child's social media activity in a handy online dashboard. Its monitoring is limited to Facebook and Twitter, however, and it can easily be disabled by your child.
6 years, 1 month
