Canopy - AI Online Safety App

Canopy has worked very well for us. We were using a different app for over 3 years and come to find out there was SO many ways around it and it was not working for us as a family of littles and a spouse with a PA. That other app was not blocking much of anything. Canopy does EVERYTHING I need it to. The tracking app shows me what apps are being used all day, it will send me notifications if someone in my household is trying to ask permission into an app or page that might have content that is not under the guidelines I’ve set as being okay. You can block websites and apps from being opened. The app controles the phone not JUST a web browser like the other app we had. I LOVE LOVE this app and I wish I would have found it sooner, we’ve used this app for over a year now. I’ve only had one issue which was when we switched phones, but customer service was amazing and helped remove a phone and add a new one. I feel good about having this app for my family. We use it on 2 phones and 1 iPad. I recommend it to everyone looking for an app that will help their family from the dangers of the internet world. It can block social media, gambling, TV streaming, violence, messenger apps, etc, you pick what you want to block. There are thing my family will ask me to unblock and it’s an easy step to give permission. The parental control is wonderful! Definitely worth every penny!

Overall we had a good experience of Canopy blocking lustful/pornographic material. It does have some quirks. I manage Canopy for my family, and I always keep it disabled on my computer. However, when I turn my computer on sometimes it seems as if it is struggling to register that it is disabled and will block all internet use on my computer until it thinks for a few minutes and connects, sometimes I have to restart my computer to get it to work right and allow me to use internet. I also wish there was a more time options for disabling canopy for certain time periods. The options to disable for a time period go 5min, 15min, 1 hr, 3 hr, 12 hr, 24 hr and indefinitely. Often I only need to pause it for 30 min for a family member but end up having to pause for a whole hour because 30min isn’t an option. In the future, it’s be neat if Canopy came out with the option to pause for whatever amount you want. So someone could type in 25 minutes or 45 minutes, etc.

As a kid, I don’t write bad reviews just because it’s a parental control app. I am writing bad reviews because this app has flaws. I am on an iPad. I use the ecosia browser (a browser that plants trees). When I go to this browser, it does not load. This never happened before. My parents have tried other apps before this, and they had the same problem. Both my brother and I know the VPN or some other thing is messing up our devices. However, my parents talked to the app developers and they say there should be no issues. Our parents accused us (falsely!!!) of lying. This should be fixed. 😡 Also, there is nothing wrong with parents having controls on their child’s device. However, I researched this app, and apparently it allows parents to have access to view everything. Children should be able to have privacy!!! But parents think that whenever a child keeps a secret, it’s because they are doing something wrong. This is false. I am upset because parents should allow kids to have privacy. BUT they should be able to view texts, photos, and search history. I feel (like many kids do) that my parents hover over me. I do not like that parents can view everything and I also feel that this makes me feel distant from my parents. It feels like an invasion on me. Kids should be allowed to have some things be secret. I think this should be a normal parental control app and only monitor texts, photos, and history. And block inappropriate content, obviously. Not view everything! 😡 Other than this, this is a good parental control app.