GoGuardian Parent App Reviews

by Anna9753124680

GoGuardianParentApp is a invasion of privacy and it dose no matter if you are using GoGuardianParentApp for your child, your students or in extreme cases your spouse. My school just recently started to use GoGuardianParentApp and it is awful. I recently had a anxiety attack in class and decided I should email my counselor. In the middle of writing this email to my counselor I got a pop up from my teacher using GoGuardianParentApp and she had typed “get back to work”. She had been watching type the email for the past 3 or 4 minutes. This is a complete invasion of privacy and I honestly don’t know who thought this would be a good idea to put in schools. And if you are using this this for your child you are honestly a toxic parent. When you feel your child is doing stuff online that you don’t like you should talk to them about it not spy on there phone. This can cause sever trust issues in a child. Thanks for reading

by Destiny❤️😆😜

M’kay, I may sound childish/stupid but it isn’t okay letting our teachers/parents watch what we’re doing, it’s creepy and weird they close tabs on us and it’s super annoying and we can get very paranoid to the point where we don’t want to even use our school computer or iPad or simply our home iPad or phone. This review is short but true a lot of students may agree with this

by Skinprick

So one day I was doing my school work and my teacher goes on this stupid app and she is spying on my work that she doesn’t need to know so I’m like I’m just gonna forget about and the 3 days go by and then she goes on GoGuardianParentApp again and I’m having an important conversation with my mom and she turns my camera and mic on so the whole class could hear it so yeah NEVER GET GoGuardianParentApp🤬🤬🤬🤬

by Ghost_Pup

If you like having your passwords,files,apps,photos,personal data rummaged through, then this is GoGuardianParentApp for you! Guaranteed to store and leak your personal data! Just like zoom! This wonderful state of the art app for teachers makes sure that personal privacy is non-existant! Download today to have all your personal data and space invaded! :D

by Ms. Hamilton

My teacher-friend Cathy suggested this to me; No way I'm taking her advice again. In my way of teaching I respect my students privacy because I believe that when students themselves feel respected they are in the mood to be their best. All of my students are a grade ahead of where their supposed because of my teaching strategy.. Take this into consideration- AND TAKE GoGuardianParentApp DOWN.

by Barrietta

Hi, I’m a student whose teachers used this on my school computer to “help” me. At least that’s what she said 😐 In my opinion, this is terrible, if your teachers do this, don’t just let it slide. And NEVER let them put it on your phone because they will be able to access and see EVERYTHING on your device including your texts, your emails, your passwords, your

by Mirri995

It worked for two weeks. Now it shows an error when i open it and won’t allow anything else but the error screen to show up. I contacted tech support multiple times to get a busy line on the phone, on the chat, and no email responses. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded GoGuardianParentApp multiple times. Garbage.

by Hjvginvguj

This is Illegal, the only people that should see stuff is the FBI, it is an invasion of privacy and is very unpleasant. Not only violating privacy but invading trust. Teach your kids or students how bad inappropriate stuff is. If they watch porn a third time get them help. GoGuardianParentApp can make feel people unsafe the feeling of being stalked is very terrifying therefore, GoGuardianParentApp is ILLEGAL

by EUuniquee

Its a no for me because a lot of personal information is put out there and GoGuardianParentApp also gives people to much power over your device. For example one time we had to enter our passwords for something we was doing and the teacher forgot their laptop was plugged to the screen and everyone seen eachother passwords and we couldnt all change our passwords until a two weeks from then

by Certified_zoomer

Invasion of privacy, against the law the reason we have a password is so no one can see out personal stuff or to hack or mess anything of out stuff up. But apparently when it comes to the older generation they are like a monarch they want to know everything and make sure their in control of what you do, say, act, and look at. I rest my case

by Hdgksol

I am a teacher of 2nd grade and needed to know what my kids were doing, my computer started acting up and all of the sudden shut down. When It finally turned back on it wasn’t even my account. I am not sure if it is a glitch or hacked but then I asked another teacher and the same thing happened to her. Please do not get GoGuardianParentApp it dose not let you look at your kids work and it glitches/hack’s your computer! From my experience GoGuardianParentApp is a 0/10.

by Brooke Strumeyer

I am a teacher of a 2nd grade class, and i needed something to see what my kids are doing on thee computers for online school. So i got GoGuardianParentApp thinking it would to the trick. 2 days go by, my computer started glitching a bit but i thought nothing of it. 1 week goes by, and my computer absolutely just shuts down out of nowhere. I eventually got it back on and i realized that i was hacked on GoGuardianParentApp and a person got into my password onto my computer because he was watching me use my computer. I was so scared - i didn’t know what do do but throw my computer. Eventually i got my computer fixed and immediately uninstalled. DO NOT DOWNLOAD UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET HACKED!

by Tottenj

I’m a Dad, and a long time EFF supporter. This application not only violates student privacy, it is also violating educators and parents. GoGuardian customer service has told me that they retain information collected by subscribers and users and that they do not have a system in place to delete this information, even when requested. This application’s only intent is to collect private data under the ruse of student safety. This company and their CEO are actively lobbying lawmakers to loosen privacy protections so they can later sell the information that they collect. Parents and teachers need to collectively push districts to end this kind of exploitation and terminate their partnerships with corporations like GoGuardian.

by Kat'Dog

My teachers use this on our computers I am a sophomore in high school and,I was emailing my counselor about something personal because someone was being a jerk I’ve had a bully since like fifth grade so this girl was bothering me and my teacher said do your work and I’m like I’m emailing my counselor or something and he was like well don’t worry about that you need to rework and I’m like I need to email her, and then one time I was done with all of my work in one class and then I was working on a different assignment and then my teacher was like do you work and I was like I’m finished I need to do this because we’re having an exam in our class and then I’m like I need to do and he was like oh you don’t need to do that

by Gucandchips

First off, GoGaurdian should be considered pure spyware. The fact that a teacher can connect and take control of your own pc just makes it plainly obvious that the teachers do not have one bit of trust for you.

Second, GoGuardianParentApp if you can find out can take full control of your computer with out anything the user can do about it. I’m surprised this isn’t illegal in the US. There is no way this can be legal and something for teachers to use and take control of any computer from anywhere.

Third, the fact that if I bring my personal laptop in to school I can get it taken away because they can’t use gogaurdian on my laptop meaning they are addicted to their own power so much that they will send anyone to iss if they don’t have control of your laptop

by It You R

It’s not safe, because you can see our important information that nobody needs to know (Only our families get to know our important information.) and can’t you see everyone who sign up for goguardian’s information. It’s invading people children’s private. I mean I get it like up want to know what’s going on your children’s phone, but just ask them politely...like it’s really not that hard. Y’all parents don’t need to sign up for a app that can basically see your important information on your phone. Like I’m pretty sure they can see your important information. Like they created this, they programmed GoGuardianParentApp, so basically they know you’re important information. In my personal opinion everyone should privacy. GoGuardianParentApp was very dumb to create...like GoGuardianParentApp shouldn’t have been created at all.

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by PhotoBiker

First, I really get a kick out of all the kids complaining about the invasion of privacy and such in the reviews. Someday they’ll understand.

Second, read the terms of use very carefully. They include clauses where you give up your right to sue them either independently or as part of a class action group. As much as we need to monitor our children’s online activity, I think I’m going to find another way rather than condoning this burgeoning legal menace.

by Mbamiller

I have two students who learn remotely. I heard from their principal about GoGuardianParentApp and volunteered to test it for our school. The school IT administrator set up a parent link for me to grant me access to see my students’ activity. Note, there can only view not block sites. Now that I can see what they are doing, there is no more wondering to unacceptable websites during school. My students’ attention to class has increased and they are more accountable for their computer use. Thank you!!!

by D_star_88

As a parent, GoGuardianParentApp is very appreciated and helpful in starting conversations with my student. I do have to laugh at the number of teens unhappy with GoGuardianParentApp! 😂

by Marchrpea

It is a great tool for teachers and parents to see what kids are doing on school issued computers. You can redirect a student back to work during the school day if they wander off to play games.

by Totino's Pizza Roll

This gives teachers way too much power. They can open tabs, close tabs, limit tabs, disable browsing, and send messages. The little icon at the bottom of the screen is incredibly distracting. I constantly feel like I'm being watched by teachers and it's difficult to work under pressure like that. This sort of thing should be illegal because they can seriously check personal emails. I've had this happen as I was emailing someone and I was then messaged to "do my work". How am I supposed to know if the teacher had read my email? Because if they did, that's seriously a felony. I understand the whole search history thing, but it still feels like an invasion of privacy in some way.