![]() ![]() Generally speaking, Net Nanny is good (no wonders why it is in the Top 10 parental controls list) but a bit overpriced parental control software with special attention to the content filtering and blocking.Use Net Nanny ® for Windows to Filter Adult Content, Block Websites, and Keep Your Kids Safe Online ![]() Price is not Net Nanny’s strongest feature. The 14-day return policy is a weak consolation. Most parental control solutions give you monthly subscription opportunities while Net Nanny offers only yearly subscription without a chance to have a free-trial. ![]() For example, Kidslox gives you the same package just for $39.99 per year and you can get the lifetime subscription for one payment of $79.99. You can connect up to 5 devices for $59.99 and up to 10 for $89.99 (and this is the price after discount!).This is much more than most other parental control solutions expect you to pay to start using their product. Though they declare that it will cost you from 9 to 12 dollars per device for the whole year, in fact, the minimum price you will pay to start using Net Nanny is $39.99 for a single computer. I found pricing policy of Net Nanny quite disappointing. ![]() Alerts, when your child is trying to access an inappropriate content and weekly reportsĪgain, this is a pretty standard set of functions.Content and websites whitelist/blacklist.Net Nanny has some other features which are very much similar to the most parental control software. Obviously, Net Nanny is good with content filtering. This is really good and I think this is one of the reasons for Net Nanny’ s popularity. This option does not ruin children’s online experience by merely disconnecting them from web browser or application but blinks rude words or hide pictures with inappropriate content. Mask profanity seems to be a unique Net Nanny feature. Gaming and chat restrictions are also available. Or you can manually add materials you want to be blocked for each particular profile/device to the blocking list. There are about 18 different content categories to block. The software provides you with the age-based category filtering for each family member or each device in your account. Net Nanny limits online content and certain types of websites your kids may access intentionally or accidentally (like pornography – you might be surprised or even shocked but modern kids get an access to pornography in quite an early age due to the internet use). And content control and filtering is probably the strongest feature of this software. Most parental control apps give you an opportunity to block inappropriate content on your children’s devices. So, when it has to with screen time limiting Net Nanny is pretty good, not better and not worse than the most parental control apps. Also, you can block internet access for a particular time period (like bed or dinner time, or time when the child is at school), so that kids may not secretly sneak to the internet at midnight or start their day early in the morning from watching clips on YouTube. You can schedule when your child may access the internet or use different apps on their smartphone or tablet. Net Nanny provides you with a bunch of instruments to help you manage your children’s and your own time online. Screen time issue is probably the main reason why today parents are looking for a parental control solution of some sort. Net Nanny is available for laptop and desktop computers, tablets and other electronic devices (on iOS or Android) Screen time limits 6/10 It has been rated recently as the best parental software by TopTenReview. Since 1996 it has been used as a parental control service or rather a content-control service by thousands of users worldwide. Net Nanny is a software that offers you the solution to this problem. We need somehow to guide our kids in the digital dimension and help them to form healthy screen time habits. And taking the device from them is often not an option. The main question for the most parents is not whether we should let kids use all the advantages of modern technologies or not but rather how we can keep them safe online. Kids and teens use their computers and other electronic devices for study, to communicate with friends, and for other social activities, or just as a platform to share their talents with the world and, of course, for entertainment. Now it’s a part of children’s routine whether we want this or not. No surprise that parents are looking for different ways to keep an eye on their digitally advanced kids, control and manage, or at least monitor, their screen time.īut we have to admit that not all the screen time is bad. Our kids spent a lot of time online every day surfing the internet, watching a video or playing games. Parental control solution for digital kids ![]()
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