Kaspersky SafeKids – Kids mode
FREE version:
Helps you manage your kids’ Internet activities- Flexibly blocks access to inappropriate websites- Enables Internet Safe Search for search engines- Let’s you customize a list of blocked / allowed sites & apps- Allows you to give an access to blocked websites or apps after child's request
Manages your kids’ use of applications- Flexibly blocks access to inappropriate apps
- with app control- Includes age-appropriate access settings
Manages your kids’ use of devices- Flexibly limits the use of devices
Gives you advices on your child’s digital activities- Provides recommendations from professional psychologist
PREMIUM version:
Our service allows parents to deliver protection to all children in their family… installing Kaspersky Safe Kids on an unlimited number of the devices children use.
In addition to FREE functionality, our more than just a parental control app:- Monitors & reports on your child’s web activity & device usage
- via My Kaspersky account- Categorizes Internet search requests
- for you to better understand what topics your kids are interested in
Keeps an eye on your child’s location*- Shows your child’s location on a map- Helps you define & monitor Safe Areas
Provides you real-time alerts & notifications- Sends you instant alerts if a child leaves the safe place, that you have defined- Sends notifications for diverse suspicious activities
Makes it easy to monitor public Facebook activity
- via My Kaspersky account- Tells you if the number of friends changes- Monitors public posts
Let’s you monitor Android calls & text messages
It’s quick & easy for parents to install Kaspersky Safe Kids:• Open Google Play Store on your child’s Android device and – using the Search function – find Kaspersky Safe Kids. • Start the download and follow the easy instructions on the screen
- to install the service in a kid’s mode.• You can install Kaspersky Safe Kids on your parental phones, tablets on Android OS and other mobile devices – so that you can remotely manage the protection rules for all children in the family & also get notifications about suspicious activities
- with more just a parental control tool.• To manage the whole set of protection rules, please log in to the My Kaspersky portal via my.kaspersky.com/mykids – using the My Kaspersky login & password that you used during installation.When parents activate Kaspersky Safe Kids on children’s devices, they’ll get a good set of parental control tools, plus an opportunity to be aware of kid’s interests to support them and establish trustful relationships.
* We recommend you to turn on your Global Positioning System (GPS) to increase the accuracy of your child’s location. Please note, the GPS usage increases the battery power consumption.
Category : Education
Reviews (23)
It was relatively fine for a few years, although it had limited functionality. Like, if a website isn't allowed, but i want it to be, and it shows up in alerts, why is the only option available there to click on it and go to the website? Should be more options. And website functions lack. But, the app recently had an update, and now nothing is working between this app and the computer. Even tried accessing it from a web browser, still nothing. None of the requests my kid sends get to me.
Updated the app and now I can't see any apps on my kids phone. Contacted support. They want me to run another app to give them all the data/specs on my phone. I can use the website to manage my kids phone from my phone. It's the app not my devices. It has worked for years with same phones with no real issues.
Update: I spoke to support and the only thing they could think of was that the battery saver function was on. It never has been. The problem has persisted regardless. I've continued to use this app because I feel like I have no other choice, but since the latest update, it has been blocking the devices randomly when they have not even been used yet for the day. I am at the point of just throwing away the tablets because there are no good apps out there to do what I need it to do and I'm tired of dealing with the stress of this one. 09/28/21: This app worked so much better when it was free. My kids are constantly getting around and disabling it. So don't be surprised when you check your child's device and find several games you didn't allow them to have because they downloaded it themselves.
Horrible customer service. APP stopped synchronizing on Windows 10 so no settings inputted on website rolled over to the app on Windows 10. Contacted customer service and they had me in loops. Still not working even though I have premium. Will not renew and will start looking for another parental control app. Shame on you.
I installed this app for my children. 1 works well but the other one has continued errors and glitches. Can never resolve anything as I always have to wait for emails to arrive which takes long. I am now looking for another app to try.😒
A good App BUT when the battery in the tablet goes flat and the device turns off, the time and date are lost. Then the App looses control of the tablet and the child can access anything. Quite disappointing.
It's good. Not perfect, but good. Haven't had any real issues yet. Works with my Samsung A32, and the A50 before it. Works on my kids iPhone, but unfortunately the controls are extremely limited on it, to the point of being pretty useless. I think that's iPhone's fault though, because there really isn't anything out there for it. The GPS locator does work on it at least though. As for controls, I get the benefit of those on his Windows laptop. Works very well on that.
I need help. I can't delete this app and it says security policy prevents. I looked on the website but there's nothing to delete it. EDIT: Contacting Kaspersky did not help. I told them what doesn't work and they told me to try the same things I told them do not work. Very disappointed.
It worked fine when it was on trial, but as soon as I paid for subscription issues started. - Password change did not work on website. -Very poor customer service. - Once Password was updated, the settings on parent device did not sync with kids Android phone. - Settings on parents app don't sync with settings on parent on website. - Password keeps saying incorrect in one device on App while in website it works.
The app is OK for setting limits on time and allowed apps on child's Android device. Integration with the Windows application is lacking. Good: * Nice and easy interface to set time limits - both as overall time and as time windows. * Both are easy to toggle: you do not lose the settings when disabling the limit. * Child request of time or access to a website appears as notification - if child is on a mobile device. * Much cheaper than Qus... and single license independent on number of children. Bad: * Requests from a computer will NOT appear in the app. Yes: you have the control app on your telephone but still the only way to answer child's request is via a browser on their website. I raised a ticket with support for this. * The algorithm that shows what applications are manageable does not do any cleanup. If you experiment with the child, the list quickly becomes unmanageable. The applications do not disappear after uninstalling. There is no way to hide them. Raised ticket for that.
Probably the worst of al kidsl apps, It is full of bugs, will erroneously state the the kids phone is in use when it is actually shut off. It blocks kids phone when it shouldn't which makes this app totally useless. Dont get near it.
Horrible! The last 8 months has been a nightmare with this app! I've used it for years and now it's just doing its own thing on my kid cell phone... Constant app crashing, locking whn supposed to be unlocked... Android Samsung 21
Great controll of Windows devices! Occasionally parent settings and child device settings get out of sync, usually resolved with a reboot. Would be 5 stars if there could be profiles eg: "learning apps allowed" and "learning + games allowed"; currently enabling/disabling a bunch of things to get this effect.
Love the tool and the price! Not overly annoying, but very effective in keeping my kids safe online! I love how I can instantly give them access when they need it, and restrict it when I need to.
Easy to setup and control how devices behave for each child. Definitely better than Norton's product that advertises the same deatures.
Works poorly, difficult to navigate features, full functionality through a webpage rather than app.
You just can't get a better parental control application than this. Its so comprehensive and it gives just the sort of control i wanted. Well done @Kaspersky , i have always been a huge fan of Kaspersky products and this one takes the bar another notch up. ✅✅✅
Unable to sign in from samsung s22 ultra, while able to sign in from website and s9+. App has always been glitchy but this is ridiculous!
Much easier to navigate than the main competitors, with all the essential features, and at a good price.
Issues: Only part of child requests make it to mobile phone, have to log on to web site to approve. Slow and chunky web interface. Wish for developers: Would be great to have profiles that combine access to different sites and apps. For example study, play, media. Now have to manually close and open few times per day, time consuming. Ps Switched to Kaspersky from MS family safety that had many other glitches. But it is built in and free, was expecting from K to work flawlessly.
Messages is set to forbidden, but can still be viewed in Notification Shade. Also, with quick fingers, the Notification Settings page is open long enough to re-enable the toggle before SafeKids blocks access. Complaint submitted to team, nothing done...
I use this for 8 different devices spread between 5 kids and it works great! I'm able to help them regulate what they are accessing, and how much of it. Super easy and adorable. Would recommend.
Could be good but: 1. Setup is a bit more complicated than it needs to be 2. You can set usage time OR period during which the device can be used but not both. For ex. I want to limit the usage to 1 hour between 1700-1900 but it does not seem to be possible. 3. This is the worst - it doesn't work if the device is offline! The settings should work even if there is no internet connection! I've paid for 1 year so I'll use it until then. Will renew only if at least points 2 and 3 are resolved. **Update*** Submitted request - will change rating if changes are implemented.