Features
The capabilities below are built and tested in the current Android apps and web platform.
NestPatrol is for parents and legal guardians supervising their own minor children. It is not for monitoring adults without their informed consent, and it is not designed to be hidden.
Built around your judgment, not surveillance
NestPatrol brings enrolled-device information into one parent dashboard. Enrollment stays visible on the child device. Parents review the context and make the decision.
Safety alerts
The current system can record potential cyberbullying, grooming, self-harm language, sexting, explicit-content, threat, and scam signals. Alerts can include category, severity, confidence, explanation, evidence summary, and review status. Automated analysis can be wrong and does not replace parent review.
Screen-time and device routines
Parents can configure schedules, school focus periods, bedtime windows, usage rules, and app-approval settings per enrolled child device. Rules are enforced on the phone itself, so they keep working after a restart and without a connection. Every time-based block tells the child when it ends, and calls and messages keep working.
Optional location and geofences
Location is optional and requires child-device permissions. The platform supports current location, history, saved places, and geofences. When your child arrives at or leaves a saved place, you get a notification. Locate Now, an on-demand location fix, is included on every plan. Continuous, real-time tracking while a session is active is included on Premium and Premium Plus, and available on Starter and Family as the Live Location add-on for $2.99/mo.
Contacts and call protection
With permission, NestPatrol syncs the contact list from your child’s phone to your dashboard. New numbers wait for your decision: approve, block, or delete. Blocked numbers cannot call or text; deleted numbers stay off even if your child re-adds them. You can also assign your own emergency contacts, which show on your child’s Help screen, in their phone contacts, and on a locked phone.
Web filtering
NestPatrol blocks adult sites in every browser on the child’s phone, including private browsing. It also blocks the encrypted DNS that Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers use to slip past most filters, so the block holds where competitors quietly fail. Filtering runs on the device itself through a family-safe DNS filter, so browsing is not routed through NestPatrol servers. It filters by site category, not by reading each page. A separate VPN app a teen installs can interrupt filtering; when that happens, the parent is alerted.
Parent approvals and messages
A child can request a temporary pause, an app unblock, extra time, or an uninstall approval. Parents approve or deny each request from the Parent App or the web dashboard. A child can also send a plain message, like a pickup request, and the parent can reply.
Emergency SOS
A child can confirm and send an SOS to the parent account. The event can include available location, location accuracy, battery level, device information, time, and an optional message. Parents can acknowledge the event and mark the child safe.
NestPatrol is not an emergency service and does not replace calling local emergency services.
Device and activity information
Where Android permissions allow, the family dashboard can show enrolled devices, device health, battery, charging state, network, Android version, permission status, installed-app inventory, and recorded usage.
Reports, summaries, and trends
Weekly reports show total screen time, daily averages, and app activity with real app names. The Family Timeline organizes device, location, app, approval, safety, and emergency events in order. AI summaries carry their supporting context so you can check them.
Included with Premium and Premium Plus
Premium adds screenshot evidence and the evidence centre. Screenshot capture requires a separate consent step for each child and can be withdrawn at any time; screenshots cannot be captured in a browser’s private mode, which the device itself blocks. Premium Plus is everything in Premium plus the AI safety add-ons: the NestPatrol Safety Assistant, phishing and scam detection, and Wi-Fi safety.
Availability
NestPatrol supports Android child devices. iOS is not supported. Parents can use the Android Parent App and a modern web browser.
If a capability is not listed on this page, NestPatrol does not represent it as built or available.