Family parental control app: limit screen time, block apps, GPS tracker.
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MMGuardian Parental Control: screen limits and alerts
By Kelvin Ooi
Security and privacy editor
- Screen time limits set from the parent's phone
- Remote blocking of chosen apps and games
- Internet filtering and web browsing logs
- Alerts for texts and searches about drugs, grooming or suicidal thoughts
- GPS location tracking for the child's phone
- Call and app usage monitoring
What the parent app does and how it pairs
MMGuardian Parental Control is the app for a parent's phone. It does not run on the child's device by itself, so a separate companion app has to be installed on the child's phone. The parent app guides you to the right one, either the Android parental control app or the iPhone version, from Google Play or the App Store.
Once the two are linked, the parent manages the child's phone remotely from the parent's own device. The listing describes the setup as a family tool for keeping children safe online.
Limiting screen time and blocking apps
The parent can set limits on how long the child's phone is used. Individual apps and games can be blocked, so they stop opening on the child's device. Web content is run through an internet filter that the parent controls.
These controls sit together in one place on the parent's phone. A parent can change a limit or a block without touching the child's phone.
Monitoring texts, calls and web use
The companion app on an Android phone records SMS text messages, web browsing activity, application usage and phone calls, and the parent can review them from the parent app. The listing also mentions monitoring messages in supported social media chats and web searches.
The monitoring covers both what the child does on the phone and who they talk to. Web searches and chat messages are included alongside texts, so the same view shows several channels.
Safety alerts and GPS location
Texts, supported social media chat messages and web searches are scanned for content the listing ties to drugs, sexting, cyberbullying, child grooming, violence and suicidal thoughts. When something matches, the parent receives an alert. The listing does not describe how the matching works, so the alerts are only as broad as the categories it names.
A GPS tracker shows where the child's phone is. Location sits next to the screen time, blocking and monitoring features in the same app, so one parent account covers all of them.
What's new
v3.7.44
- Fix message report issue.
- Google Billing update
- Various enhancements
- Major update to support new iPhone features.
About this APK
The build we hold is MMGuardian Parental Control 3.7.41 (APK) for Android 6.0 and up.
- Version
- 3.7.41
- 283
- Requires Android
- 6.0+
- Size
- 14 MB
- Package ID
- com.mmguardian.parentapp
- Format
- APK
- Malware scan
- Clean on 66 engines
- Permissions
- 19 declared
- Signed by
- CN=zheng zhou
- Certificate SHA-256
- e638722c10d395c787298b0d803889c711bf6b00d106bf42cbedc6ae23a199d0
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