Parental Controls

Available for:

Windows Mac iOS

Get peace of mind with one of the best parental control software available.

When your kids are spending time online make sure to keep them protected. Parental control software offers visibility into your children’s online activity to help you understand their browsing habits and keep them safer while they use the Internet. With Net Nanny®, you can monitor your family’s browsing habits and help protect them from harmful content when they're surfing, searching and scrolling.

What is Parental Control Software?

Parental control software helps protect your child by supporting parents with the ability to filter, monitor, and manage their family’s online activity. Parental controls can:

Filter adult text-based content in real time
Block pornography sites and real-time searches
Alerts you control - choose what matters to you and we’ll flag it in your dashboard, ready for you to review
Family Screen Time Management
Provide you with more peace of mind

3 Reasons Why Your Family Needs Parental Controls

If you’re not familiar with parental control software, learn the 3 reasons why this might be right for your family:

Keep Your Kids Safer Online
Kids are exposed to many exciting, but also dangerous things on the Internet. With parental controls, you can help limit their exposure to adult content and allow them safer Internet access.
Manage Screen Time
Are you constantly fighting about screen time in your house? With Net Nanny®, you can set time limits for your child’s device usage and only allow them access to the Internet when you choose.
Have Visibility to Online Activity
It’s impossible to monitor kids’ online activity at all times, but with parental control software, you have more insight into their Internet use. With Net Nanny®, you can allow or block websites from being viewed and receive notifications in the Net Nanny® Family Feed of the content triggers in real time.

How Does Net Nanny® Parental Control Software Work?

Net Nanny® uses a real time text-based internet filter to contextually analyze the content of a webpage. This top-rated technology has allowed millions of families to help limit the amount of inappropriate content their children are exposed to, while still allowing their family to access age-appropriate online content.

By analyzing the content of a webpage in real time, Net Nanny’s top-rated Internet filter is able to provide internet protection for your family the instant a website is loaded.

How to Set Parental Controls for Your Family’s Devices

Many electronic devices have built-in parental control software that can help you limit your child’s online use. However, these native parental controls only work on each device it’s installed on and rarely communicates with other devices. For families that have multiple phones, tablets and gaming consoles, this can mean spending a lot of time setting up parental controls on different interfaces, each with different instructions and a varying level of protection. Look for a parental control solution like Net Nanny® that can be a singular solution to keep your child safe on their Mac, PC, and iOS devices.

Net Nanny® is a singular solution to keep your child safer on their Mac, PC, and iOS devices.

How to Set Native Parental Controls on Individual Devices

To learn how to set up the native parent controls on each of your family’s devices, see our helpful step-by-step guides below:

Operating Systems
Whether you are an Apple or a Windows family, use these how-to guides to protect your family with parental controls on your device.

How to Set Parental Controls for iPhones and iPads
How to Set Parental Controls for Windows 10

Help protect your family online with Net Nanny, a trusted name in Internet filtering and parental controls since 1996.