GuestSpy Editor
Parent of two children aged 9 and 13, and has run GuestSpy on the family's Android phones since 2022.
I started GuestSpy after trying to find a parental control app that would tell me what it could and could not see. Most of them would not, so I ended up building one that does. I write the guides on this site myself, on the phones in my own house — a Samsung Galaxy A-series and a Pixel, both on Android 14. When a page says a menu sits three taps deep, I counted the taps. When a page says a feature cannot do something, it is because I tried it and it did not work. I am not a security researcher and I do not pretend to be one. What I have is three years of living with these tools in a house with teenagers, and a strong dislike of software that overstates itself.
- 71 articles published here
- Every guide is written, edited and checked by a person — see our editorial standards.
Guides by GuestSpy Editor
Signs Your WhatsApp Has Been Read by Someone Else
Which WhatsApp hacked signs actually mean something? Four do: a device in the linked-devices list you cannot account for, being…
How to Hack Snapchat Account and Messages Without Surveys
A few years ago nobody was aware of Snapchat. But now you will find everybody using the infamous Snapchat filters.…
Phone Hacking Explained: How Phones Are Really Broken Into, and the Signs
Almost nothing sold as phone hacking involves breaking into a phone. Ask “is my phone hacked” and the honest answer…
Free Monitoring Apps for Android: What Each One Can and Cannot Do
Free monitoring apps for Android are real, but none of them installs from a distance. Android has no mechanism for…
Free Text-Message Monitoring for Parents: What Remote Setup Really Needs
A free SMS tracker can be remote afterwards. It cannot be remote during. Setting one up means roughly twenty minutes…
A Parent’s View of Snapchat: Family Centre, Location and What Stays Hidden
If you want to monitor a child’s Snapchat, there is exactly one sanctioned route: Family Centre, which your teen has…
Keeping an Eye on a Child’s Facebook: Supervision Tools That Work Remotely
You can monitor a child’s Facebook and Messenger from your own phone — once supervision has been set up on…
Monitoring a Child’s WhatsApp: Why Remote-Only Claims Are False
Nothing lets you monitor a child’s WhatsApp from your own phone alone. The messages are encrypted between the two handsets…
Call Recorder Apps and the Law: What You May Record, and Where
The short answer on call recorder apps and the law: both Android and iPhone now record calls from the dialler…
Tracking a Phone’s Location the Legitimate Way: Six Methods That Need Consent
There are six realistic ways to track a cell phone location, and every one of them needs something arranged in…