Surfie vs Screen Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surfie
This app helps parents protect their children online by monitoring their location and website usage. It can block inappropriate content, enforce safe search, and analyze social media for bullying.
- Child location tracking
- Website usage monitoring
- Social media chat analysis
- Content blocking
- Safe search enforcement
- Internet access scheduling
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Surfie-Guard Surfie-Guard safeguards kids from cyber-bullying and harmful content and helps parents keep track of kid's location and website usage. Surfie-Guard also enables parents to limit and control their kid's access to offensive internet content, such as: pornography, hate, violence, drugs, gambling , etc. With a fast, simple and easy registration process Surfie-Kids delivers a user-friendly experience. SURFIE Guard FEATURES: • Tracks child’s current Location and today's location history • Analyses WhatsApp and Facebook chats and posts for bullying events • Blocks inappropriate websites based on the age of the child • Enforces safe search for major search engines • Allows internet access at specific times of the day • Limits internet access for a specific amount of time Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life
Screen Time
This free utility helps parents manage their children's screen time. Set timers, and once they expire, the device becomes difficult to use until unlocked by the parent with Touch ID or a passcode.
- Set screen time timers
- Device lockout after timer expires
- Unlock with Touch ID
- Unlock with passcode
- Free to use
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Less screen time, more life time! Controlling how much time your kids spend using screens is important. Screen Time is here to help, for free. 1. Setup a timer 2. Once the timer goes off, your device becomes hard to use for anyone else but you 3. Unlock your device with Touch ID or passcode to make it usable again. It's that simple. This app is free and made by a concerned parent.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Surfie at 3.5 against Screen Time's 2.4. Screen Time's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 4) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Surfie holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Surfie's written reviews are positive against 8% of Screen Time's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Surfie | Screen Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) — better | 2.4 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PURESIGHT TECHNOLOGIES LTD | Cantina Software |
Customer experience
Surfie
Screen Time
In-app purchases
Surfie
No in-app purchases
Screen Time
No in-app purchases
