MMWD for Android
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Saved lives more than plural. Kept kids out of the system by simple communications. No rep help tho. Like they lazy. But we the parents so well always do their work so -2*
S4 user and a dad. I am not impressed at all. One of the reasons I picked this app was because of the location finder. It doesn't work at all. I tried all the tips on the website and still nothing. The website blocker doesn't work either. Ive tried logging in thru my phone and computer and still nothing. The only other part that I use is the log function and it works like it should. Thank goodness they had a 14 day trial. I will keep looking. Horrible
Was a Great app could keep up with my kids know who and what they where texting. That is until last update now won't even open on my samsung just a blank white screen. Very very disappointed. Please fix.
This app makes me feel like I'm being stalked by my own parents. I have no personal privacy so if I need to talk to someone personally then I need to call them and I hate calling people. I would give this app 0 stars if I could.
Its great for android users. I can see every inappropriate text from boys to my 14 year old daughter. 3 boys now tried to get sexual with her and send her pictures. I got the boys parents involved and they had no idea. You just log in on your own computet and see every text.pic.web page.and call log. A phone is not a right. Privacy under 18 is not a right. She can have a phone with watch dog or write a letter to her friends.
This app keeps locking up or never loads...screws up my kids phone off and on....problem is I've been paying for a while and I'll have to keep paying for it till I find another one because I'm definitely not going to keep this one as it only works half time
Someone posted my daughters number on Craigslist for a sex ad and she was getting messages from strange men asking for sexual favors. Thanks to this app her father and I were able to intervene. To all the kids on here complaing this app is not for you to like but rather keep you safe. I think you kids would think differently if what happened to my daughter happened to you. Despite the technical flaws without this app we would not have known because my daughter thought she could handle it by herself.SMH
I can monitor all incoming and outgoing texts/pictures. Block apps I don't want them to use. Keep them from changing settings. All I hear are the kids complaining on here about it. You're complaining because you aren't responsible enough to have freedoms and privacy. And since they had to put this on your phone they should prrobably also beat your little butt. Be happy they let you even have a phone. Parents lock them down if you don't then it's your fault how they turn out.
My dad bought me this app and it almost blocks almost any app. It even blocked Netflix. It also bans me from all my settings. Plus, we kids need privacy and parents can tell if we are hiding something if we act different than usual. I can't uninstall it until my dad disables it on the parent account. It makes me so angry I would abandon my phone and ignore my parents until they uninstalled it but I am to nice to do that. Plus, they would ground me...
I'm a teenager, but I get that parents want to know their kids are safe from hackers or bad websites. But I don't understand why they need to go this far with this app! Now, I will try and open Settings, and then a grey screen appears saying MY MOBILE WATCHDOG HAS BLOCKED THIS TASK. Personally, I'm "almost ok" with this app on my phone, but I wish that my parents didn't use all of the tasks available that come with the app.
It was working ok,until this last month it just stopped. DON'T GET THE APP!!!! You can't use all the features and they just tell you they can't fix it. :( :( :(
I hate it because I'm a kid, I'm 14. Every time I get something from the play store, my dad has to disable it so I can go on it. What if he's out of town and it's the middle of the night and I get kidnapped?! I can't call anybody because the emergency dialer doesn't work so I'd be left for. Dead. Other than that, its a great app.
Don't download this app for your child. It is terrible because when you download any new apps, they are automatically blocked. Settings and task manager are also blocked. It's absolutely ridiculous!! If I could I would give it zero stars.
Text and call monitoring work very well, as does Web activity monitoring. App blocking is iffy, works most of the time, but sometimes it doesn't. Location is a joke, it's very inaccurate, but no big deal since I can just use the find my mobile phone option on the Samsung website for free. It doesn't have the option to monitor social media, and my biggest issue is that the website seems to be down fairly frequently.
The texting and pics log works great. You can read every in and out text. The time lock works, too. However, the location feature works at times and trying to allow certain apps doesn't work at all. I went through help many times trying to make exceptions and it didn't help. Also, if your kid wants to get to a blocked app, they just reboot and there is a few second window. They figure it out quickly.
Works great for text and call logs BUT does nothing for adult sites and inappropriate content. The report will tell you all new sites visited but you have to block each separately. My child learned how to shut down the app on Galaxy s2 first time we blocked YouTube and Internet. When MMWD blocked page pops up. Just go back to home and hold down home button. With all open apps listed. Swipe to close MMWD and now go back to the app that was blocked. Presto! So much for an effective parental control app.
Not automatically blocking new apps downloaded! The new installed apps don't even show up on the list of apps on the watchdog app!
App works good when it works. Lately, everytime I try to sign into the parent portal I get "unable to connect to server". Nothing wrong on my end with my connection as everything else is working. It's your end. Going to start looking elsewhere
This app is stupid. It works great but, see my parents have put this on my pbone, and I understand privacy is a privilege if your under 18, but don't you think being able to see your messages is a little to much? Being able to see what sites you viewed is okay. But seeing your text, really come on, now seeing the picture messages is okay, and it blocks things that aren't even bad it won't even let me close my apps out. And everything I click on I get a stupid thing saying it's blocked.
I already did that part but it didn't change the password app when I login it keeps saying error
emailed servise me-unabe to comunicate to the server... ??" got this in response from support More than likely based on what you are seeing he has found a way to disable the My Mobile Watchdog. Our system is not fault proof, if the child has found a way to disable the app intentionally, unfortunately, all we recommend is a reinstall. But more than likely the child will simply disable again." ok supporttWHERE IS MY REFUND?? AND GET OFF OUR PHONES NOW PRETTY PLEASE
Doesn't work. Note 3 neo, don't see it as her phone administrator in list of phone admits. GREAT GREAT APP. THANK YOU
When the parental control password is entered to unlock an app for 30 minutes, it does not unlock it for 30 minutes. It will unlock for short periods of 2-3 minutes then block it again. Sometimes almost immediately. This is VERY annoying to continually enter a password, and while trying to watch a video-rage inducing. Please fix this
I have absolutely no problem with this app, but why does it always make my phone crash? Its very upsetting I hope you could fix that. And it would also be nice if you could stop the notification thing it annoys me when it pops up
I have not been able to use the unblock applications function the last few times I tried. I can unblock them temporarily from my daughters phone but cannot unblock them at all from my phone. It also doesnt update notifications in real time. Very disappointed because I used to love this app but if my account doesn't work I will be canceling my subscription and finding a new service! Mmwd please fix this or you lost a customer.
I have had this app on my daughters phone for a while and it does (mostly) what it claims. (No location of her phone but I don't need that right now anyway.) But I must access it via the webpage bc the app won't let me log on. It doesn't recognize my password and when I try to get them to email me a new password, I can't type in my email. It's very annoying to check the texts on the mobile webpage too...it cuts them off.
By the way this is a teen speaking.I don't actually like the app, but it works great. My parents use it for stalking me all day. Only problem is if you shut down then turn on, it temporarily disables the app, so you can quickly turn it off as admin and delete it. I know its weird a teen would talk this way about an app that limits them , but I do admit it works well except for that kink.
Bad reviews because kids hate it.. Sorry as a parent I love it. I can see every incoming and outgoing text and call, websites visited, block applications, and track location. Works great, helps keep her safe, and eases my mind.
First get kingroot. Then install purify off the store and open it before it gets blocked. BAM! Mmwd is frozen and you can do whatever you want. When your done all you have to do is uninstall purify and relaunch mmwd. Sounds complicated but its actually the easiest way to do it without resorting your phone and crap. And you get your phone rooted in the process! EAT MY SNOT MY MOBILE WATCHDOG
the app is ok.monitoring text on.your kids phone.you must download this on your child's phone and enter your email.it can't be uninstalled from.your phone which is so stupid you.have to.uninstall online with your desktop or laptop or a tablet.and if you.have Netflix or hulu it will uninstall those apps.which is ridiculous so it's not worth it.
I have been using this app for the last couple of years and I am not happy with service.I don't get the texts that my child receives half the time,The apps are constantly getting blocked even though I just unblocked them.The location finder has never worked.My child can bypass the parental controls by rebooting phone.I mark all the contacts to alert and it doesn't work.Not at all happy with service.I just cancelled my monthly subscription.
Is it perfect? No, not even close. But it is the best of the options out there. I've been using it for about 6 months and I LOVE that I can view not only her text messages, but also any pictures that are sent. That's the most important thing from my perspective. I don't like that the MMS and SMS only track the phone's main messaging app. I wish it also tracked things like Google Hangouts. But then I just remember most of her friends have iPhones and don't use Hangouts - so problem solved. Making changes on the fly via the app installed on my phone doesn't seem to work at all (like if the time block is on but she gets out of school early I can only unblock from the web, not the app on my phone) and the geo locator doesn't seem to work at all. In any event, the text tracking and time restrictions are excellent and worth it in my opinion.
As a parent, this offered all I was looking for. But the app interface sucks. Completely unusable on a Galaxy S4. Works great on my Windows 7 laptop computer, but sucks for a phone app. Find a better option, avoid the frustration. UPDATED JUNE 2016: Updating my review for the NEWEST VERSION of the app (June 2016 version). It still sucks, and now it has a WORSE interface on Windows 7. Doesn't show the name of the apps installed on the monitored phone. No longer has a parent app to monitor while away - you can ONLY monitor from a computer. And as I said, the computer interface is horrible, navigation between items sucks, display is counter-intuitive. AND...they RAISED the monthly fee (TRIPLED the cost for new users; former users stay at the prior low monthly rate). Dropped my rating from 2 stars to 1 star. AVOID, find an alternative.
If you lose your password cant get it back sent them an email no replay wish I could get my last months worth back. Useless app.
I love that we can control out daughters usage. Her grades were suffering until we shut it down during school hours. Complaint: We are unable to see group messages or pictures? This is troubling. I'd like to be able to check those and not have all the notifications to my email. 500 text messages everyday is annoying.
My parents use this constantly. They can see all of my texts even deleted ones. It also texts them if it sees that I am doing something I shouldn't be doing, etc.
I had zero complaints about this app, but now for whatever reason I can't block anything on my daughter's phone. She has an S5, I have verified it's all running as it should and I can still get into all the apps I blocked. Not sure what gives.
This would be a fine app if it didn't frequently make it so I can't unblock apps. About half the time that I try to log into the app it will not allow me to. The website will not allow me to either. So I tell my child he can install something, but then he can't play it until whenever the site is back up. This is ridiculous.
I like the functionality of this software. My only issue is the app not working. I have to go to the website to make any setting changes to my child's phone.
by N####:
HAHA! SCREW YOU, WATCHDOG! I found a way around it. If you want it off, just factory reset your phone, and if you have anything you want to save, just make a copy of it on your computer.