Teen Safe Review
Founded in 2011,
TeenSafe app is mainly designed to avoid the minor drivers from getting
distracted during driving due to the constant innumerable notifications from
the various mobile phone apps.
TeenSafe is a California-based
technological company that has designed an app which helps the anxious parents
track and supervise their minor children’s mobile phone usage. The modern
technology is both a boon as well as a disadvantage. While technological
advancement has helped create new opportunities, it has also become a danger
when misused. So, as a parent of a teenager, it becomes very important to watch
out for your child and protect them from harm.
Teen Safe app allows you to do so ever so discreetly. You can see what your children are watching online, whom they are talking to, or where they are going. The app can be operated using your computer. Though it can be downloaded onto a mobile phone, it will work in the background, remaining invisible to the device’s user.
The company offers a free
one week trial of the app so that users can determine if they wish to
continue using the app or not. After the trial period is over, the app costs
$14.95 per month, which is pretty nominal considering all the great features that
the app comes with. If you do not wish to continue with the app after the
one-week trial, you must cancel the trial at least 24 hours before the
trial-end to avoid payment. They also have a fantastic customer support with
polite and knowledgeable employees who are always willing to help you with the
slightest of troubles. Contact their customer support at (800) 245-8598 if you
have any questions regarding the app, or wish to cancel your subscription at
any time. Another great advantage of using the TeenSafe app is that unlike the
other spy phone apps in the market that allow tracking only one device from one
account, TeenSafe allows tracking an unlimited number of devices at once.
Therefore, parents with more than one child do not have to worry about paying
different subscriptions for various target devices. You can also create
multiple user accounts in the same price. The app also has an auto-renewal
feature that allows parents to be at ease, knowing that not one day will go by
when they can not track their kids’ movements, just because they forgot to
extend their subscription.
TeenSafe is an iOS and
Android compatible app for parents that help them remotely disable the mobile
phone of their teens while he or she is driving, except for the incoming and
outgoing calls. This feature is particularly helpful in overcoming the “driving and texting” fever that runs
among teenagers these days. They can not let go of their mobile phones for even
a minute. So while their teenager son or daughter is driving, if an app helps
the worried parent disable their kid’s mobile phone to ensure that no accidents
are caused due to the mobile phone’s distraction, then such an app is what
every parent needs these days.
Apart from the very
unique feature of disabling the target device, the addition of TeenSafe control
app to the present app at a very low cost helps parents gain control of their
kid’s mobile phone, instead of just access to reading text messages or viewing
call logs.
First, you have to
download the app and then install it on the target mobile phone and you are all
set to start monitoring your teen’s mobile phone usage and activities. The
TeenSafe app has the following basic as well as some unique features-
- Call Log– This feature helps the parents see whom their kid is
talking to, when and for how much time duration. The app provides a
detailed call log information of all the incoming and outgoing calls from
the target mobile phone.
- GPS– you can see your kid’s real-time location with the
help of this GPS tracking feature that provides you with the phone
location at any given point of time.
- Browser History– perhaps one of the basic but most useful feature is
access to the browser history of your kids’ mobile phone. With the help of
this feature, the parent can keep a track of which websites their kids are
visiting and what are they searching for in the various search engines.
- SMS tracking– the app also helps you view and read the various
received and sent messages from the target mobile phone. You can even read
the deleted messages. This is a great feature that allows you to monitor
whom your kids are texting to and if the person is a potential threat to
your kids’ safety.
- Contacts– this unique TeenSafe feature allow the parents to see
the saved contacts on their kids’ mobile phones.
- WhatsApp– perhaps one of the most popular and used text
messenger apps, not many spy phone apps or softwares have been developed
that are able to provide information and data about the WhatsApp texts
that your kids send or receive. TeenSafe is one of the regularly updating
and evolving parental control app that enables parents to view and monitor
their kids’ WhatsApp messages.
- Kik Messenger– another messenger that is extensively used by the
teens these days is Kik Messenger. The unique TeenSafe app also covers the
database from Kik Messenger and allows the parents to view all the
incoming as well as outgoing messages from the kids’ accounts.
The TeenSafe app is a pretty simple and easy-to-use app. Parents who do not
have advanced technical knowledge can also smoothly use the app without any
hiccups. Adding the TeenSafe Control app allows the parents to pause or disable
the target mobile phone, block the applications that they deem are unfit for
use by their minor kids, and also block purchases. The TeenSafe app also
provides SSL and data encryption as it takes the customer’s and user’s privacy
and security very seriously. Its strict security measures make sure that the
data stays and remains confidential between the child and the parent.
Along with the
aforementioned features, the app has some other helpful tools too.
- You can also monitor other applications
on your teen’s mobile phone such as calendar, notes, audios, etc. apart
from the camera, web browser and messengers.
- The Control app also has an
option that allows the parent to manage and monitor the multimedia
on their teen’s mobile phone, along with audio monitoring.
- You can also remotely lock down
the target mobile phone or shut down some specific phone functions or apps
for a determined time period using the ‘pause’ button. This unique
‘pause mode’ disables other functions of the mobile phone but keeps
the calling option active so that in case of emergency the kid can make or
receive phone calls.
- Parents can also remotely block
apps, softwares, and messages if they feel that their kids are using apps
not suitable for them, or talking to unidentified online strangers who
might pose a threat to the child’s security.
With so many dangerous
elements such as online predators, stalkers, and bullies lurking around us and
our children, it is incredibly important for us as parents to protect our
children while we can. If saving them from harm means installing a spy phone
app on their phones, then so be it. As long as parents are not interfering in
their kid’s lives on a regular basis and using their control over their kid’s
mobile phones in an unfair manner, till then keeping a track of their
activities to keep them safe is only right.
CONCLUSION:
In keeping your teenager
safe, TeenSafe is the best app out there. It is not just your usual monitoring
tool, but it also has some high-quality features that allow the parents to be
less worried about their children’s safety by monitoring their mobile phone
usage and activities. One of the best features of this app is that you do not
require to jailbreak or root the smart phone device to install it. TeenSafe app
is quite easy to install and since its launch, the app has garnered positive
reviews from its various users.