Many companies provide their employees working on certain positions with a smartphone. It is especially the case for those people whose work requires frequent business trips or simply plenty of traveling. It results in a problem: how to ensure proper use of this device and prevent violations of corporate security policies. This problem is quite serious – after all, modern smartphones are similar to computers in terms of their functionality. This means that confidential information can leak from a smartphone quite like it can from a PC. Smartphones could get infected with malware due to visiting third-party sites, and data or identity theft is likely due to the carelessness of the phone user.

Therefore, special programs for monitoring smartphones are often simply a must-use for company owners, as well as directors, top managers, and security specialists (of course, with the permission of the business owner).

The second large group of potential buyers of so-called spy software (as monitoring software is often called) is parents, especially parents of teenagers.

Nowadays most families have several computers and/or mobile devices, and children often get their first own mobile phone at preschool age.

As for teenagers, it is no secret that many of them consider themselves smarter than their parents. These kids yearn for complete independence in the way they understand this word. Such children dislike dads’ and moms’ interests in their activities and hobbies. They see it as an invasion of their personal space. If you ask them, say, who they are talking to on social networks for hours, teenagers can withdraw from the conversation, or even start a quarrel. Moms and dads may be worried that their child may unknowingly fall into a bad company (there are an incredible number of groups on the Internet dedicated to literally anything) or become a victim of cyberbullying. In addition, parents want to know if their sons and daughters are actually doing their homework. To a direct question from a teenager, you can get only one answer “It’s okay, mom.” But at the end of the semester, there could be unpleasant surprises…

So, parents, whose children spend up to several hours every day staring at the phone, resort to monitoring these devices not just on a whim: sometimes this is the only chance to notice a problem in time and solve it before it turns into a catastrophe. Unlike children, parents do understand the dangers which careless teenagers can run into on the web …

The most common operating system on moderately-priced smartphones and mobile phones (the ones most often bought for schoolchildren or employees) is Android, and monitoring software developers offer a wide range of such programs for this OS. On our website, you will find reviews of the two most convenient and effective spy programs for Android: Realtime-Spy (from Spytech, a well-known developer) and Hoverwatch. Versions of these products for macOS and Windows are also available.