Comparison

Qustodio Parental Control App vs WardSafe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Qustodio Parental Control App

This app helps parents manage their children's digital lives by setting screen time limits, blocking apps and websites, and monitoring online activity. It also offers location tracking and alerts for searches and messages to ensure online safety and encourage healthy digital habits.

Highlights
  • Screen time limits
  • App and website blocking
  • Web content filtering
  • GPS location tracking
  • Search and message alerts
  • Social media monitoring
  • Co-parenting feature
Features
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Awarded PC Mag’s Editors’ Choice, Qustodio Parental Control App makes parenting easier with daily screen time limits, app blocking, kid tracking, AI powered search and message alerts, social media monitoring, porn blocking and more. Start by downloading this Qustodio Parental Control App onto your device. Then download the Kids App Qustodio companion app onto your child’s device or devices. Our two monitoring apps work together to give parents all the tools they need to protect their kids online and encourage a healthy, balanced digital presence. Parents, with Qustodio Parental Control App you can: Protect your child’s online safety • Filter web (block games, porn, gambling and block all unwanted content) • Receive alerts about web activity and blocked websites • Block games & apps • Enforce safe search (filter out inappropriate results in search engines such as Google, Bing, YouTube) • App insights Nurture healthy habits • Set daily screen time limits • Schedule restricted times • Pause the internet at the click of a button • Set limits on games & apps • Custom routines for apps and websites Have full visibility • Receive search alerts • Receive SMS message alerts. • Receive social monitoring alerts. (available WhatsApp, Instagram, and Line) • 30-day online activity reports • App download alerts • Monitor Youtube activity • Track calls • Supervise together: Invite another parent/guardian to monitor and set rules for your child (co-parent) Locate family • GPS location monitoring (geolocation kid tracker) • Find your child’s phone • Locate kids on the move • Share your location • Save your favorite places Choose Qustodio’s basic parental control plan to access some of these features, or upgrade to the premium plan for full access to all features Qustodio Premium family parental control & screen time app is available with an annual subscription. Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon purchase confirmation and any unused portion of your free trial period will be ended. Your subscription will renew automatically and at the same cost unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. To avoid being billed for an additional period, subscriptions must be canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and set auto-renewal to off by going to “Settings” on your iPhone or iPad. If you have any questions or need help, contact us at info@qustodio.com We take privacy and the protection of your family and children’s data extremely seriously. We do not and will not sell data to third-parties. Your child’s screen time activity is for your eyes only. Our Terms of Use are available here: https://www.qustodio.com/family/terms/ The Qustodio family parental control & screen time app is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese Dutch & Brazilian Portuguese.

About

WardSafe

This app listens for important sounds in your home, like alarms or a crying child, and alerts you through vibrations and visual cues. It also provides live captions for conversations and tracks a child's speech development, all while prioritizing user privacy with on-device analysis and no data storage.

Highlights
  • On-device sound analysis
  • Customizable vibration alerts
  • High-contrast visual notifications
  • Live speech and sound captioning
  • Child speech development tracking
  • Two user profiles (child/self)
Features
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WardSafe listens so you don’t have to. It watches for the sounds that matter in your home — and quietly tracks how your child’s speech is growing. Built from the ground up for households where someone is deaf or hard of hearing, it turns the sounds you might miss into something you can see and feel. Everything happens on your iPhone. Audio is analyzed on the device and immediately discarded. No recording is ever saved or uploaded. ALERTS YOU CAN FEEL WardSafe recognizes smoke and CO alarms, breaking glass, a knock or doorbell, a crying child, and more. When something matters, it reaches you three ways at once: • A distinct vibration pattern for each level of urgency, so you can tell an alarm from a doorbell without looking. • A large, high-contrast banner that drops over whatever’s on screen. • A notification, so you’re covered even when the app is in your pocket. LIVE CAPTIONS Open captions to read the room in real time. Speech appears as words; other sounds appear in brackets — [doorbell], [dog barking] — the way broadcast captions have always worked. High contrast, resizable text, nothing saved. SPEECH & BABBLE TRACKING For parents, WardSafe gently follows a child’s language as it grows: new words, sentence length, and — most useful of all — how often you and your child go back and forth. Before there are words, it recognizes the stages of babble, from cooing to “bababa” to sentence-like jargon. TWO WAYS TO USE IT Choose a profile when you start: • For my child — full speech-development tracking, plus every sound alert. • For myself — sound awareness and captions for your own home, without the child-development screens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Recordings never leave your iPhone — there’s nothing to upload, because nothing is stored. • Keeping the actual words is off by default; the app can track “14 new words this week” without writing down what was said. • Optional account backup syncs only the results — counts and summaries — so your history survives a lost phone. • Delete everything, on the device and in the cloud, whenever you want. WHAT WARDSAFE IS NOT WardSafe is an assistive tool, not a replacement for certified equipment. It can miss or misidentify sounds. Never rely on it in place of working smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, or other life-safety devices. It is also not a medical device. It does not diagnose anything, and its developmental ranges are general context, not a screening test. Every child develops on their own timeline — talk to a pediatrician or a speech-language pathologist about yours.

Screenshots

Qustodio Parental Control App4 screens
WardSafe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WardSafe at 5.0 against Qustodio Parental Control App's 4.2. WardSafe also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 14). Qustodio Parental Control App's advantage is ratings volume (9.6K vs 1) and chart position (#86 vs unranked). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Qustodio Parental Control App sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $54.99 per year. WardSafe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WardSafe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Qustodio Parental Control App has 9.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Qustodio Parental Control App versus WardSafe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQustodio Parental Control AppWardSafe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (9.6K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.6K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#86 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQustodioKomal Taneja

Bugs and requests

Qustodio Parental Control App

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Settings and restrictions randomly reset
  • Inability to block certain apps and websites
  • Inconsistent tracking of device usage

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customizable time and app restrictions
  • Ability to block specific websites/content
  • Improved compatibility with iOS and MacOS
  • Better monitoring of calls, texts, and location

WardSafe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Qustodio Parental Control App

Subscriptions14
  • Qustodio 5 devices 1-year$54.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Basic 1y$59.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Basic ADV$69.991 Year
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  • Qustodio Premium Basic PLS$69.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Basic+Care 1y$72.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Basic PLS + Care$82.991 Year
  • Qustodio 10 devices 1-year$94.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Complete 1y$99.991 Year
  • Qustodio Complete+Care 1y$99.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Complete ADV$119.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Complete ADV+Care$119.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Complete PLS$124.991 Year
  • Qustodio Premium Complete PLS+Care$124.991 Year
  • Qustodio 15 devices 1-year$159.991 Year
None

WardSafe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Qustodio Parental Control App free?
Qustodio Parental Control App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WardSafe free?
WardSafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Qustodio Parental Control App or WardSafe?
WardSafe is rated higher. Qustodio Parental Control App averages 4.2 out of 5 from 9.6K ratings, while WardSafe averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Qustodio Parental Control App or WardSafe have ads?
Neither Qustodio Parental Control App nor WardSafe shows ads.

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