For example, Family Link may show a device’s present position, but that’s all it can do. Competitors may display a location information, and nearly everyone else allows geofencing, which enables you to choose important locations (such as home, education, and others) and get notifications when your kid enters or exits those locations.

The top of the competitors allows you to restrict websites by genre, while Family Link can not. With a single swipe, Bark, for example, enables you to restrict all streaming websites. You can however fine-tune it to, say, just give entry to Disney+.

But this functionality has a few significant drawbacks. To find out what your youngster has been looking for and viewing, you must first log into this account and open their Google Account Manager (the information is not accessible directly through the Google Family Link app). Furthermore, for some reason Google Family Link doesn’t prevent tech-savvy children from deleting their browsing histories, making it simple for them to go around it.

Overall, online filtering and supervision offered by Google Family Link are not among its strongest features. In comparison to other parental control programs, it is very restricted, not very user-friendly, and some of its features are quite simple to get around.