Kids App Qustodio Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience11.1% of reviews
Neutral4.0% of reviews
Negative experience84.9% of reviews

~ Based on 2,053 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Kids App Qustodio

Is Kids App Qustodio Safe?

Kids App Qustodio does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Kids App Qustodio is 43/100.

This assessment is based on 7,867 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.2/5.

Safety Analysis

27.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
69.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 7,851 App Store ratings for Kids App Qustodio.

Is Kids App Qustodio Legit?

Kids App Qustodio appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kids App Qustodio is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

really inaccurate

my mom uses this for tracking my youtube usage and other things around that nature and it is so inaccurate it showed 3 videos that ‘i watched’ on youtube but my mom couldn’t see them and i got grounded for three months. thank you quostodio! i didnt even watch youtube that day!

HORRIBLE

It glitched my phone and I couldn’t get onto any of my apps since it blocked my phone by itself. My mum didn’t block it either the app jst blocked my phone automatically so my mum deleted it but it still didn’t work after hours I finally managed to delete the app by settings.

Don’t get it it breaches privacy and ruins trust

I am a 15 yr old boy who like to do airsoft and mtb
Every time I search up airsoft it flags
I recently discovered it can listen to calls and track texts. I can’t share anything personal on my phone anymore because I’m worried it will flag
PARENTS
Eventually your kids are going to be old enough to be talking to there partners and they DON’T want the risk of something personal to them or their partners being flagged
It’s none of your business
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This is horrible

Everything I try to do is blocked. I hate it. It’s a Tuesday. I have no school and I’m trying to have fun on my iPad, but I can’t because this weird Qustodio Kids is not letting me play anything. I’m so mad I wish I could give Qustodio kids zero stars.

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Genuinely this has ruined my life, I can’t even do anything without my mom seeing what im doing. I have no privacy and im going insane and my mental healths been getting even worser after my mom did this. Thanks a lot I hope you’re happy.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS APP!

Qustodio is genuinely one of the WORST apps I have ever had the displeasure of using. If you are a parent considering installing this absolute disaster of an app, DO NOT DO IT. I cannot stress enough how terrible it is. Qustodio claims to promote online safety, but all it actually does is destroy trust between parents and children, create unnecessary arguments, and turn everyday device usage into a complete nightmare. Instead of encouraging healthy communication and responsibility, it makes children feel constantly watched, controlled, and treated like they cannot be trusted. And the worst part? THE APP DOESN’T EVEN WORK PROPERLY. It is ridiculously unreliable, frustrating, and full of problems that make using your own devices unnecessarily difficult. Imagine creating an app that manages to ruin family trust AND fails at doing its actual job. It is honestly impressive how something supposedly designed to help families can cause so much frustration. Parents, if you genuinely want your children to trust you, communicate with them instead of relying on this invasive, poorly functioning excuse for parental control software. Constant surveillance is NOT a replacement for good parenting, and excessive restrictions do not automatically make children safer. Qustodio is a perfect example of how technology can make a problem significantly worse instead of solving it. I would give this app NEGATIVE FIVE STARS if that were possible. An absolutely dreadful experience, a complete waste of time, and something I would NEVER recommend to any family. DO NOT INSTALL QUSTODIO. SAVE YOURSELF $150 A YEAR AND YOUR KIDS TRUST
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Booty

Not only is it bad, it’s super easy to breach for 100 bucks

Don’t get what so ever

Ok so I have never officially used this bc I sat down with my partners to talk ab it ok but don’t get this app do not get it it is horrible and this is coming from adults to do not get it please it makes yr phone glitch and u can’t do anything at all so yeah if I could rate this app lower I would horrible don’t get it
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Almost Perfect

I like how this app can help kids and teens stay off their phones. However, I have a problem with it. For some reason, some game apps don’t work even when allowed, through an internet error. I hope this is fixed soon. However, besides that, good app.

apple prob need to take this down

Highly spyware, because found out it has something in the VPN and general thing….. yeah and contained a whole bunch of information. Creepy. also this only runs in the background

Seriously…

Hello, I’m a child and I just wanted to give you a heads up on how many people hate this, this is for the law and I don’t mind, but if your gonna let ADULTS control everything on a device, you will have to explain things to these questions.

First question,
How do you feel of people hating your app? It simply keeps coming to me… and how does that change your work?

Second,
Are you working for the law, and do you have permission to do these types of things?

Please answer these questions, I do appreciate that my homeschooler does this, but kinda making it a bit difficult for me to handle it, I always feel like I’m being watched or forced to use this app.

I do also not like how I cannot trust her, it’s hard to tell if she’s trying to protect me, arguments, and unpleasant thoughts coming through me thinking if I really deserve this type of treatment, or relationship.

Thank you for reading this, and have a good life (ignore the rude reviews!)
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Does its job but..

Needs to be always allowed apps for iPhone. Need music in the shower or read in bed tho

Bad

Drains battery drastically I am 11 and on my phone I hate it because it uses battery

Why I hate it

It is terrible like it does good but it not worth it

Ok

It does the job. It gets it done but there are some downsides. Like, right now, i got a notification saying i used up 33 gigabytes of data, but with qustodio, my phone is practically bricked. I cant use anything on cellular data and only on wifi. They need to update to fix that.

i feel like my privacy is being invaded

hi im a child and this doesnt feel like a good app, nothing really says “i trust my child” like a phone monitoring app, ey? anyways, i feel like i cant do anything without being monitored, even if my mum says shes not monitoring my phone i feel as if she is anyways. also i have an ai chat bot addiction, haha laugh at the silly addict ok enough, and i yearn to go back onto the app but i feel unsafe but i will genuinely start cutting myself again if i dont i hate this delete this app now
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horrible

terrible app

DO NOT INSTALL THIS APP!

Qustodio is genuinely one of the WORST apps I have ever had the displeasure of using. If you are a parent considering installing this absolute disaster of an app, DO NOT DO IT. I cannot stress enough how terrible it is. Qustodio claims to promote online safety, but all it actually does is destroy trust between parents and children, create unnecessary arguments, and turn everyday device usage into a complete nightmare. Instead of encouraging healthy communication and responsibility, it makes children feel constantly watched, controlled, and treated like they cannot be trusted. And the worst part? THE APP DOESN’T EVEN WORK PROPERLY. It is ridiculously unreliable, frustrating, and full of problems that make using your own devices unnecessarily difficult. Imagine creating an app that manages to ruin family trust AND fails at doing its actual job. It is honestly impressive how something supposedly designed to help families can cause so much frustration. Parents, if you genuinely want your children to trust you, communicate with them instead of relying on this invasive, poorly functioning excuse for parental control software. Constant surveillance is NOT a replacement for good parenting, and excessive restrictions do not automatically make children safer. Qustodio is a perfect example of how technology can make a problem significantly worse instead of solving it. I would give this app NEGATIVE FIVE STARS if that were possible. An absolutely dreadful experience, a complete waste of time, and something I would NEVER recommend to any family. DO NOT INSTALL QUSTODIO. SAVE YOURSELF $150 A YEAR AND YOUR KIDS TRUST
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As a kid rating it…

I mean, qustodio is good but, it’s kinda fake…
Tbh it said “watch out for fake comments on Tanghulu master” excuse me?! Tanghulu master is a kids game… Qustodio is kinda fake itself… hope this helped.

I absolutely hate this app.

When I was 11 I had so much free space on my phone for example I had internet that wouldn’t be paused until let’s say 7am the next morning. I’m 13 now and my parents recently installed Qustodio because they had to talk to me about not having TikTok and not being able to express my self through puberty. So when they saw that I had been seeing what all of the stuff was I got in trouble because they went through my phone and looked at everything I had. In my opinion this is a total way to loose your child’s trust to talk to you about stuff. When I go on my phone I am always constantly feeling like I am getting spied and in trouble with everything that I click on. Since they have downloaded this app they think that I am more open about talking and communicating better to them. That is a lie it makes me want to not speak with them and just keep it to myself this is the worst app ever. Please do not download this app parents you are ruining your child to trust and to properly communicate with you.
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