It could be challenging for any parent to always keep watch of his kids while doing other important activities on a daily basis. In fact, this applies as well to when you’re out on a family vacation or outing. It’s for this reason it’s not difficult to arrive at the conclusion that a parent’s job as guardian to his children is a 24/7 affair. Good thing there are apps nowadays that significantly reduces this burden; apps like Family Orbit, for instance.

First-time users of parental control apps might take delight in the fact that this is practically the most complete app of its kind we’ve reviewed. Most parental apps usually just offer a Kid Tracker as a main feature. While this is also one of the best features of Family Orbit, know that that’s basically just the tip of the iceberg of this app, feature-wise.

The Kid Tracker uses your phone’s built-in GPS to always be in the know of your children’s locations, regardless of what time of day it is. It even keeps a record of all the places they’ve been to. With this tool, you’re sure to monitor your child in a way that they won’t think as invasive.

Of course, there are also photos that your child or teen is sure to take using his smartphone. With this app’s feature that gives you the ability to monitor the photos that they take and share, it won’t be hard to keep them from possible harmful and compromising scenarios involving public photos they share in the Net.

If you’ve been meaning to give a much-needed grip on your ballooning phone bills (the apparent culprit being your kid’s unregulated use of mobile data), know that this app also lets you keep a close eye on their utilization of mobile data daily, weekly, and monthly. A good complement of this feature is evidently the ability to monitor how often your kid is using his device as well, with all pertinent and detailed information (e.g. battery usage, available disk space, etc.) being made available to you as well.

Teens tend to keep track of prospective events that they mean to attend by marking them on their calendars as well. Long story short, know that you can also keep track of this facet as well. And, worried about the people that your child’s been adding to his address book? Rest your woes by using this app’s ability to track people that he adds as his contacts as well.

The most defining feature of Family Orbit that lets it shine more than other parental apps is, quite undoubtedly, its comprehensiveness. Its all-in-one aspect certainly heightens the convenience it affords its users, as it pretty much erases the need to find other apps to get features that they need. To say that this app is advanced could prove to be an understatement, once you’ve given it a try.

Price: Free