Everloom vs Qustodio
Qustodio is one of the most complete control apps you can put on a kid’s phone. A free tier covers one device, and paid plans (listed at $59.95 a year for Basic and $109.95 a year for Complete) add per-app time limits, web history, and, on Android, call and SMS monitoring.[1]
It works the way most control apps work: an app on the child’s phone routes traffic through an always-on VPN so it can filter and log. Independent reviews report battery drain from the always-on connection, and that filtering can be bypassed when the VPN is switched off.[2][3][4]
None of that is a knock on Qustodio’s intentions; it comes with the architecture. Everloom protects at the network layer instead. There is no VPN app running on the phone, nothing extra draining the battery, and no activity log to scroll. Coverage rides on the device’s own network settings, and if it drops, we tell you.
What Qustodio does better
Daily time budgets per app, schedules, and a pause button. Everloom skips per-app minutes on purpose, because the free built-in tools from Apple and Google already do that job well.[1]
Web history, app activity, and on Android, calls and texts. Some parents want that level of record; Qustodio provides it and we deliberately do not.[1]
One device can be covered at no cost, which is a fair way to try the control-app approach.[1]
Where Everloom is different
Everloom filters at the network layer through the device’s own settings, so there is no companion app running in the background of your kid’s phone all day.
Instead of history to scroll, you get weekly patterns by category and a Sunday digest. Enough to guide, not enough to surveil.
No tool on a teenager’s own device is truly tamper-proof, ours included. If coverage drops on a device, Everloom tells you, instead of promising it cannot be removed.
$14.99 a month on the annual plan covers every kid and every device in the house: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, and optionally the TVs and consoles through one router change.
Side by side
| Feature | Everloom | Qustodio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 a month on the annual plan, or $17.99 month to month. One price for the whole family. | Free for one device. Paid plans listed at $59.95 a year (Basic) and $109.95 a year (Complete)[1] |
| Free trial | 15 days | — |
| How it protects | Per-device filtering on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and Windows, plus an optional one-time router change that covers TVs and consoles | An app on each device routes traffic through an always-on VPN to filter and log activity[1] |
| Always-on VPN required | No | Yes. Independent reviews report noticeable battery drain[2][3][4] |
| Reads your kid’s texts and DMs | Never | On Android it can monitor calls and SMS[1] |
| Screenshots of your kid’s screen | Never | — |
| What you see | Weekly patterns by category, plus a Sunday digest | Per-app minutes, web history, and, on Android, calls and texts[1] |
| Coverage-drop alerts | Yes. If coverage drops on a device, you hear about it | Independent reviews report filtering can be bypassed when the VPN is turned off[2][3] |
| Weekly conversation guidance | Yes. Weekly guidance from your family’s category patterns, plus dinner-table questions | — |
| Works alongside Apple Screen Time and Google Family Link | Yes. They are free and good at limits; we cover what they cannot see | — |
| Per-app minute tracking | No, on purpose. The built-in free tools do minutes well | Yes, in detail[1] |
Rows marked — are details we could not verify ourselves, so we would rather you confirm them with Qustodio than have us guess.
Who should choose what
Choose Qustodio if you want per-app time budgets and detailed activity logs in one paid dashboard, and you are comfortable with a VPN app running on each phone.
Choose Everloom if you want harmful content blocked on every device, weekly patterns instead of logs, and nothing extra running on your kid’s phone.
If you want one product to be the complete record of a device, Qustodio is a serious option. If you want quiet protection, a weekly rhythm, and the free built-in tools left to do what they already do well, that is what we built.
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Sources
- Qustodio plans and features (free tier, Basic, Complete). https://www.qustodio.com/en/premium/ (accessed June 2026).
- NexSpy, Qustodio review (independent review). https://nexspy.com/blog/qustodio-review (accessed June 2026).
- Timily, Qustodio review (independent review). https://timily.app/guides/qustodio-review/ (accessed June 2026).
- Trustpilot reviews of Qustodio, rated 3.3 at the time of writing. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.qustodio.com (accessed June 2026).