“Stay Away — This app sucks, it’s not compatible with much like other apps like it with IOS due to the 2 factor authentication. They claim they can bypass it, but even other promises were broken like safety alerts. They are unresponsive…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 937 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
Qustodio Parental Control App
QustodioAwarded PC Mag’s Editors’ Choice, Qustodio Parental Control App makes parenti…
3.8 ★33,712 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
159 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
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:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 182.40.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 182.40.0, updated 2026-09-02.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 182.40.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 182.40.0, updated 2026-08-31.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 182.40.0, scanned 2026-09-27.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 7 SDKs detected in the package
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Don’t even bother — It’s a pretty extensive process to set this up on devices. You barely have any controls and to get them you have to pay for premium. Then after a month you have no choice if you want to do anything you have to…”
“Read the Fine Print — Complete bait-and-switch. This app has limited functionality for iPhone and seems to be more geared towards Android. Made the mistake of a subscription and now I’m out $100. Would not recommend and very frustrated…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 182.40.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.