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FamiSafe - Location Tracker & Parental Control app

Monitor Screen Time, family locator & tracker, Block Apps & Games, YouTube Kids

  • Category Personal
  • Program license Free
  • Version 6.0.2.214
  • Size 24 MB
  • Works under: Android
  • Program available in English
  • Content rating Everyone
  • Package name com.wondershare.famisafe
  • Program by WONDERSHARE TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    FLAT/RM 901 9/F FINANCE BUILDING 254 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL HK

FamiSafe - Location Tracker & Parental Control is an Android application designed to aid parents in managing their children's digital safety.

Overview

FamiSafe is a comprehensive parental control app that allows parents to track their child's location, monitor their online activities, and set screen time limits. Developed by Wondershare, this app is armed with a multitude of features aimed at ensuring your child's online safety.

Location Tracking

One of the core capabilities of FamiSafe is its location tracking feature. It allows parents to keep track of their child's whereabouts, and even provides geofencing capabilities. With this, parents can set safe zones and receive alerts when their child enters or leaves these areas. This feature is extremely reliable in providing real-time location updates.

Online Activity Monitoring

FamiSafe's online activity monitoring is another key feature. It enables parents to monitor their child's online activities, including web browsing history and social media interactions. This feature, however, has received mixed reviews from users. Some users have reported occasional inaccuracies with YouTube video blocks. For instance, while a large number of inappropriate videos are blocked, the app sometimes fails to block videos within a playlist. Despite this, Wondershare seems to be proactive in addressing this issue, with improvements noted by users.

Screen Time Management

The app also allows parents to control their child's screen time by setting time limits on certain apps or the device as a whole. This feature is quite effective and gives parents an added layer of control over their child's device usage.

Web Filtering

FamiSafe's web filtering feature allows parents to block certain websites or categories of websites. However, some users have noted that this feature could be improved by allowing the blocking of entire domains, particularly for .io online browser games.

Conclusion

Overall, FamiSafe is a feature-rich parental control app that offers a great deal of control over children's digital activities. Some minor issues with YouTube video blocking and web filtering exist, but these are outweighed by the app's overall functionality and reliability. With continuous updates and improvements, FamiSafe has the potential to become an even more powerful tool for parental control.

Pros

  • Reliable location tracking
  • Effective screen time management
  • Detailed online activity monitoring

Cons

  • Inaccurate YouTube video blocking
  • Web filtering feature could be more comprehensive

1. Add QR code scanning pairing method to improve the tedious pairing process between parents and children's devices

2. Customize the card function display, show the functions that parents care about, and meet the personalized demands of parents

3. More accurate Web Filter classification to quickly identify inappropriate websites to block for kids

4. Smoother data presentation effect, greatly improving parents' experience

Potentially dangerous permissions

  • ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION: Allows an app to access approximate location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.
  • ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION: Allows an app to access precise location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.
  • READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows an application to read from external storage.
  • WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows an application to write to external storage.

Other permissions

  • ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Allows applications to access information about networks.
  • ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
  • CHANGE_WIFI_STATE: Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
  • INTERNET: Allows applications to open network sockets.
  • PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS: Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
  • RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.
  • SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW: Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT, shown on top of all other apps. Very few apps should use this permission; these windows are intended for system-level interaction with the user.
  • WAKE_LOCK: Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
  • com.android.vending.BILLING
  • com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
  • com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE
  • com.google.android.gms.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION
  • com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES