Mobicip Review 2024: Will it Really Protect Your Kids?

Here’s a quick summary of Mobicip’s features:

Mobicip Features – Updated in 2024

The first thing to do after registering a Mobicip account is to register each child. All you need is a name, gender, and birthday. If you want, you can add the other parent to your account, so both parents can supervise the device without creating multiple accounts.

Once the child profile is ready, you can download the app for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Kindle, and Chromebook, and Mobicip will instantly start implementing your rules.

Create a Daily Schedule and Set Screen Time Limits

Mobicip has a default screen time schedule and web filter based on the child’s age. It’s pretty basic and has times marked for sleeping and school. During school, Mobicip blocks apps and websites that can be a distraction but allows the phone to work for educational purposes. If your child’s school doesn’t allow phones during school hours, you can change the settings to block everything.

The calendar is fully customizable. You can add blocks of time based on your family’s schedule and allow or block apps and websites by category or name a specific app you don’t want your child to use. I like that the calendar allows me to create a calendar in five-minute increments. Other programs I’ve tested only required all calendar sections to have 30 minute or even hour-long segments, which didn’t fit with the reality of our home life.

In addition to a calendar, you can also set a daily screen time limit. Mobicip gives you three options:

• Custom: Set the hours and minutes, with 15-minute increments, of screen time you want for each child. You can set a different limit for each day of the week.
• All Time Outside the Calendar: There are two ways to set screen time limits, a calendar and overall screen time limits. This option turns off any daily screen limits and only enforces the calendar based restrictions.
• Give No Free Time: This locks the phone for the entire day.

Mobicip has a Vacation Mode, which allows you to temporarily turn off the calendar and screen time limits without deleting your settings. I like that the app allows me to select the end date, so I don’t have to remember to restart the calendars before school starts again.

The final screen time tool is called Family Time. When you activate this, it pauses all connected devices. I found this helpful during dinner when my kids just look at their phones instead of talking to each other. Since we don’t have a set time for dinner, I couldn’t add it to the calendar. Instead, I pause devices at once.

Prevent Screen Time Addiction with Mobicip!

Custom Web Filter with 18 Categories

Mobicip makes it easy to keep my kids off dangerous or inappropriate websites. Unlike other parental control apps with 40 or 50 categories, Mobicip has divided the internet into 18 categories. The web filter has a default setting based on the child’s age, or you can customize the filter and enable or block any of the categories.

The categories include Ads and Marketing, Entertainment, Health, Mature and Adult, News, Proxies, Shopping, Social, Weapons and Violence, and YouTube. When the child tries to go to a blocked site, they will see a message on their screen letting them know the site is restricted. I appreciate that Mobicip added a Request Access button to the lock screen, so my kids can request access to the website. I can check out the site, and if I agree that it’s appropriate for them, I can unlock the website from the parental dashboard.

I also created an exception list that blocks or gives access to websites, regardless of the category. I found it helpful that Mobicip tracks the browser history and compiles a list of the most visited websites. I can quickly browse through what they’re looking for and quickly add anything inappropriate to the blocked list.

Manage The Apps Your Children Use

The Mobicip filter doesn’t stop with websites. It divides apps into three categories:

• Social Media
• Entertainment
• Games

You can set time limits or block each category (the Games can only be blocked on Android devices). I found this to be helpful when trying to limit the amount of time one of my children spent streaming TV shows and movies.

By setting an hour limit on the Entertainment apps, I knew that it would prevent my son from losing track of time and watching hours of Netflix. It blocks the entertainment apps after an hour, but other apps are still available. If you don’t want to block or limit an entire category, you can choose a specific app that is available in the App Store or Play Store and set a time limit.

Stay on Top of Your Kid’s Social Media Activity

While creating a child profile, I connected Mobicip to my child’s Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat (Android only) accounts. Once connected, Mobicip scans these accounts for keywords or pictures that trigger the following categories:

• Bullying
• Sexual
• Violence
• Drugs
• Self Harm or Suicide

If the scan picks up any mention or slang related to these categories, it gives a real-time alert to the parental dashboard. Additionally, all of the child’s posts also appear on the parent dashboard. While this information is available if you’re connected with your kids on social media, I found it convenient to see all three timelines without logging in to Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat and checking out my son’s profiles.

Mobicip has improved its YouTube monitoring capabilities. The latest update gives Mobicip the ability to monitor the YouTube app and website. It works by scanning the video title, description, comments, and other meta information, and if it triggers any keywords, it will block the video. You can also block YouTube completely through the web filter and app limitations.

Improved Location Tracking – Now With Geofence

In an earlier review of Mobicip, I mentioned the lack of a geofence feature and noted how much better it will make the location tracking. Well, it seems like Mobicip was listening, as they upgraded this feature to include a geofence.

The geofence is such a helpful feature for parents who have kids that walk to school alone or live in an area with a dangerous street. It allows you to set a radius around a specific area, and it sends alerts when your child enters and leaves the zone. It gives me peace of mind that my kids arrive at school on time and go straight home when school’s out.

Mobicip also tracks your child’s location via their phone, 24/7. It places all your children’s avatars on a map to visualize exactly where they are at all times. It also saves their location history, so even if you don’t have to constantly check your dashboard to see if they actually went to a friend’s house to study and not running off to the park instead.

Get Parental Advice from Experts

One neat feature of Mobicip is a parenting advice section. It keeps an updated list of dangerous apps, educational apps, and apps that are trending with teens. There is an explanation about each of the apps, so you can stay informed.

It also includes advice from digital parenting experts, with information about what to look out for, how to prevent screen time addiction, and creating a safe online world for your children.

Set Strong Parental Controls with Mobicip!

Mobicip has apps for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Kindle, and Chromebook.

Before you download the app, register your Mobicip account and create the child profile. Once the account is set up, Mobicip will ask which operating systems you want to monitor, and you can download the apps you need.

For Windows, Mac, or Chromebook, Mobicip will provide a link, and when you click on it, it will open the appropriate download page. Download the file and install it on your computer. According to Mobicip, you will need to uninstall Norton and Kaspersky antivirus as they will block Mobicip from working properly.

When the installation is complete, follow the online instruction to give Mobicip the necessary permissions it needs to enforce time limits and web filters.

If you have multiple children using the computer, it’s recommended that you create a separate profile for each one. Otherwise, Mobicip will enforce its rules on the computer and not the individual user. When the setup is complete, Mobicip will instantly begin monitoring, tracking, and enforcing your rules on the computer.

When you download the mobile, you will need to give it consent to location tracking, giving it access to enable filtering, the app manager, and admin rights that will prevent your child from uninstalling or deactivating the app.

The app gives exact instructions for your specific device as far as what buttons to press in the settings menu to activate the permission. Once everything is ready, Mobicip will monitor and track the device and enforce the screen time and web filter rules.