Smart Family Companion for PC

★ ★ ★ Smart Family Companion Overview

What is Smart Family Companion?

Verizon Smart Family is a parental control app that helps parents monitor and manage their child's smartphone usage. The app offers location tracking, content blocking, website filtering, and driver insight features to ensure a safe and secure online experience for children. The app is paired with the Verizon Smart Family Companion app on the child's smartphone.

Software Features and Description

1. Verizon Smart Family is your partner in parenting, with location tracking, parental controls and driver insight features.

2. The Verizon Smart Family app lets parents set controls and tracking, and is paired with the Verizon Smart Family Companion app on their child’s smartphone.

3. • Monitor your child’s phone usage and activity with features that allow you to review texts, call history and their device’s battery life.

4. Download Verizon Smart Family now and get peace of mind, knowing your child’s online experience is safe.

5. Locate your child’s device, block content, filter websites, view device usage, understand your child’s driving habits and more.

6. • Childproof the internet with blocking features to filter social media, messaging, gaming apps and websites—plus set purchase limits for apps, games and music.

7. • Set alerts to find out where your child’s device is at a certain time of day or when your child enters/leaves a pre-set geofence.

8. • Detect driving events such as speed, rapid acceleration, hard braking, hard corners, and phone usage.

9. • Review which apps users visit in a 7-day period, and the amount of time spent on each.

10. You’ll receive an alert with your child's location if they’re ever involved in a potential collision.

11. Get Premium and try all of the features for free for 30 days ($9.99/mo thereafter).

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Download and install Smart Family Companion on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Smart Family Companion	Get App ↲	16,878 1.19	Verizon Wireless

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Smart Family Companion app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Smart Family Companion on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Smart Family Companion"
The search will reveal the Smart Family Companion app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Smart Family Companion is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Smart Family Companion.
Now enjoy Smart Family Companion on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Verizon Wireless	1.19	1.66.10

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Smart Family Companion Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Smart Family Companion,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Smart Family Companion" » then Click "Install".
- Smart Family Companion will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Smart Family Companion on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Verizon Wireless	16878	1.19

Download on Android: Download Android

Smart Family Companion functions

- Location tracking: Set alerts to find out where your child's device is at a certain time of day or when your child enters/leaves a pre-set geofence. Check the real-time device map anytime. (Premium only)

- Content blocking: Childproof the internet with blocking features to filter social media, messaging, gaming apps, and websites. Set purchase limits for apps, games, and music.

- Driver insight: Detect driving events such as speed, rapid acceleration, hard braking, hard corners, and phone usage. Receive an alert with your child's location if they're ever involved in a potential collision. (Premium only)

- Phone usage monitoring: Monitor your child's phone usage and activity with features that allow you to review texts, call history, and their device's battery life.

- App usage tracking: Review which apps users visit in a 7-day period, and the amount of time spent on each. For iOS phones, you can also access a list, by category, of URLs visited by the user.

- Premium trial: Get Premium and try all of the features for free for 30 days ($9.99/mo thereafter).

✔ Pros:

- The app allows parents to monitor their children's online activity and location.

- It can help parents ensure their children's safety and prevent them from engaging in risky behavior.

☹ Cons:

- The app can be invasive and make children feel like they are being stalked.

- It can limit children's freedom and prevent them from engaging in normal teenage activities.

- The app can continue to control the phone even after it has been deleted, causing frustration and conflict.

- It can block important resources such as the National Suicide Hotline and prevent children from seeking help in emergencies.

- The app can negatively impact children's social lives and mental health.

Top Pcmac Reviews

DO NOT GET THIS APP FOR YOUR POOR CHILDREN

By get away from this app asap (Pcmac user)

Ok so I understand how parents want to “monitor” their children but this isn’t monitoring its more like stalking. They watch your every move and can see all your deleted and regular messages, photos, apps, and history and track your location. It’s not like I take bad photos and watch terrible stuff on the internet or sneak out every night. I have straight A’s in school and I sleep fine every night. Even though sometimes I’ll text or call my friends late, I still sleep fine and do well in school. With this app I cant do anything anymore at night or talk to my friends. It makes me feel left out and depressed and it causes fights with the family. With this app you can’t socialize and be a regular teenager. It restrains you from having a normal life and I don’t even do anything wrong. Also the app never lets me get texts back so someone might’ve texted me something and I’ll never get it so it ruins your friends relationships with you also. If u are a parent, spare your child some peace and don’t get this horrible app for your kids. And if you are somebody with this app on your phone, I’m terribly sorry for u and welcome to the left out depressed club. Also with this stalking app my mom will probably see this too and get me in trouble lol
This App is the worst thing to happen

By chentyboi (Pcmac user)

When the people first created, they sat their in their chairs wondering, “Soooo... how can we find ways to make a child’s life so horrible, so they can’t enjoy life.” I’m a 16, almost 17 year old, and have had this for a while. I can’t do anything anymore, I can’t do the crazy things that any normal teenage wants to do. In my own opinion, I just think this is beyond hypocritical, because parents have done the same stupid things that we have and are going to do. They should expect it. Yeah, they should punish kids for sneak out really late, or going somewhere that they weren’t supposed to go, but what are they going to do, ground you for the rest of your life? With me, and possible so many others, this app will prevent people from ever having a social life. Parents don’t want you getting food late at night? No more going to friends house to spend the night. Friends having a party, but your parents think something bad might happen? No more parties for you. This app slowly tears a gap in the child’s social life, which can to depression. It’s an amazing thing really, seeing how a parent is capable doing things like this to their child. SO WHATEVER TOU DO, DONT DOWNLOAD THIS APP. IF YOU HAVE NO CONTROL AND HAVE IT ANYWAY, FIND WAYS AROUND THE SYSTEM.
Don't Cause Unneeded Fights

By parkerlynn (Pcmac user)

I'm 16, I have a job, a license, a car, 3 scholarships, and a whole multitude of family problems all because of this app. Long after your parent or the guardian of the account deletes the account, changes the settings and deletes the account this app STILL has complete control. My phone used to shut off at 10:30pm est, so now if I'm on the west coast it shuts off at 7:30pm, it's been deleted for MONTHS. Theres been screaming matches, calling Verizon, and even a NEW phone, and this app STILL CONTROLS EVERYTHING. Not to mention that it has completely destroyed my social life with REAL LIFE FRIENDS, which has causes depression and worse, on top of that it blocks websites and numbers. It blocked me from calling the National Suicide Hotline and instead sent me to 'Verizon Wireless Phone Line', it's blocked me from calling the non-emergency police line, it's blocked me from even trying to get professional help from Suicide Hotline, CPS, and EMS. My parents are heavily abusive, my mother has even broken my finger, and this is another step closer to having COMPLETE control and distrust for me. If you don't trust your child to have their own life away from you, maybe you're the problem your child pushes away when you try to hug them and not them being 'moody'.
if you care don’t buy

By 123abcbad (Pcmac user)

i’ve had this app for a while and my parents have been pretty lenient with it. but since school has started up, they’ve completely gone insane. our data has been limited to about 1 gigabyte a month (down from 3 in the summer) and they’ve set it to routinely shut off at 10 pm “so we can get enough sleep.” i’m a sophomore in high school and i’m involved in musical and in marching band. most of the time, i haven’t even started my homework before 9 pm. now i can’t use my phone either for important things and my grades have definitely dropped because of it. this has literally torn my family apart. when us kids and teens got our phones, it was because our parents trusted us enough with them. and now they have apps where they can follow our every move, limit our data, track who we’re texting and shut off our phones when it’s convenient for them. i get if their child is one who usually sneaks out or does bad things, but my brother and i both get straight A’s and have never snuck out in our lives. so the fact that this app is made and forced onto so many people is frankly kind of insulting to us. you guys want us to “grow up and be mature” so badly, but this is just NOT the way to do it.