Why choose Voop over Qustodio?
Both help keep a young person safe on their phone. Only one was designed around care plans, care teams, and young people who have every reason not to trust being watched. If you’re looking for a Qustodio alternative for foster care or a children’s home, here’s how they compare.
For looked-after children, shaped around each young person’s care plan.
BUILT AROUND
Extreme tamper-proof technology - can't be removed or reset
Each young person’s care plan
Care teams working across shifts and homes
A phone that looks like everyone else’s
Openness the young person can see
Oversight and reporting for your organisation
General parental controls that families can install on the devices they already own.
Consumer subscription only
BUILT AROUND
Low to moderate tamper resistance - can be uninstalled
A parent managing their own children
An app added to phones, tablets and computers
Detailed activity timelines and reports
Reading texts and flagging chat messages
Location tracking set by the parent
Feature by feature
Who it's for
FEATURE
VOOP
QUSTODIO
Designed for
Children in residential and foster care, and the teams around them
Parents managing their family’s devices
Rules set per young person
Tailored to each child’s care plan
Per child, set by a parent
Shared across a care team
Care team dashboard, with team roles and permissions
An additional parent can be added
Oversight across multiple homes
One view across every home and team
Organised around a single family account
Reporting
Data dashboard and reporting for your organisation
Daily and weekly activity reports to a parent’s inbox
Device controls
FEATURE
VOOP
QUSTODIO
Content filter and app controls
Included. Operates at the network and firmware level so can’t be bypassed. Even if the young person connects to an external Wi-Fi network, content filtering remains hardcoded into the device
Included. Operates at the app level (Can be bypassed with a VPN or by clearing the app cache
Bedtime schedules
Included
Included
Who they can call and text
Call and messaging settings, set in line with the care plan
Block list of phone numbers
Location tracking
Live location sharing on the care team dashboard map
Location history on a map
Safe and unsafe places
Mark places as safe or unsafe on a map, and get an alert when the phone enters either
Saved places such as home and school, with alerts on arrival and departure
Missing incidents
Location override for emergencies. If a young person is missing or at risk, your care team can override their sharing settings. Only on Voop
Not applicable, as the parent always controls location
Transparency and trust
FEATURE
VOOP
QUSTODIO
Reads texts and messages
Never. Voop doesn’t read their messages
Parents can read texts sent and received
Monitors calls
No. Unless a child attempts to contact a blocked number
Shows who they call and message, and when
Scans chat and social apps
No. Private conversations stay private
AI alerts on WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and X chats (Android)
Young person can see what’s switched on/off
A transparent, child-friendly app showing what’s on, what’s off, and why
Rules live in the parent’s dashboard
Young person can opt in or out of location sharing
Yes. They choose whether it’s on, and can change their mind at any time
Set by the parent
The phone
FEATURE
VOOP
QUSTODIO
What you get
A Google Pixel with a Voop eSIM
An app for devices you already own
Looks like any other phone
A regular Pixel, so nothing marks them out
Depends on device
Tamper proof technology
Included
Limited
Built for care, not adapted for it
Normalness as protection
For a child in care, a phone that looks and feels like everyone else's means they don’t feel different every time they open their phone.
Oversight that scales
Larger providers get one view across homes and teams, with roles, permissions and reporting built in.
Transparency BY DESIGN
One young person who’d deleted a tracking app before agreed to try Voop once they saw exactly what was on, and that location sharing was their call.
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