SurfBalance combines a fun, full-screen mobile web browser with unique features that go beyond traditional website filtering to guide young web users to develop better web usage habits.
SurfBalance lets parents guide, limit and verify their kids’ web use, even if they are connecting to the web through mobile hotspots that typically do not limit website access.
SurfBalance guides young web users by providing a catalog, which parents can modify easily, of more than 1,000 kid-friendly sites. The app tracks and displays total usage and usage by category. This feature helps kids understand how they spend time on the web and helps them find appropriate sites.
When viewing allowed websites, SurfBalance provides full-screen mode to create a more immersive web experience.
SurfBalance provides category level filtering, individual site level controls, and daily and weekly web time browsing limits to limit web travels. Parents can choose from three different site category filter levels to match the maturity of the users. When users try to visit a blocked site, they can request permission to view the blocked site. Parents can review these site visit requests and decide whether to allow access to the site or continue blocking. Parents can also choose to limit the maximum browsing time by day and week.
Parents can receive daily or weekly email reports detailing total web usage time, browsing activity by category, and a list of websites where kids visit the most, along with links to review the sites directly from the report.