Top 10 Free Porn Blockers Available 2018

Part 1: FamiSafe

FamiSafe is excellent software from the house of Wondershare that helps in maintaining family welfare and in ensuring safe usage of smartphones by both adults and kids. It is uploaded with numerous features and functionalities for protecting and monitoring your day-to-day activities. Hence FamiSafe is recognized as the best parental control software and cell phone monitoring app and software of 2018 by its valuable customers.

Key Features:

1. GPS Location History and Tracking

2. Geographical Fencing

3. App Blocking and Restriction

4. Screen Time and Activity Control Settings

5. Internet Content Filtering and Web History

Pros:

• Track kids with the geo-fencing feature.
• No rooting is necessary
• You will get a 3-day free trial when you first download the app.

Cons:

• Cannot monitor calls or text messages
• Cannot check contact details

Part 2: Norton Family

The second best free porn blocker on our list is none other than Norton Family, previously known as Norton Safety Minder, one of the most used free porn blocking software of all times, from the stable of Norton. Now, Norton, as we all know, is one of the most trusted brands when it comes to answering the safety and security concerns of anyone over the internet. Norton Family too stands as a testimony to this fact and performs capably when it comes to blocking porn for free. Although, it lacks some of the advanced filtering features that it's paid sibling, Norton Family Premier, comes with, Norton Family still is a great choice for anyone who wants an effective free porn blocker. Here are some of its key features.

Key Features:

1. Comes with an admin access for effective monitoring and allows you to customize functions.

2. In addition to blocking porn, it also allows you to filter your child's social activity

3. Option of setting up automatic emails to deliver weekly or monthly reports

Pros:

• It comes with a good number of blocking and filtering features
• Offers the option of setting up multiple profiles
• Works with multiple devices
• Stores all settings on your account for easy configuration
• Email alerts in case of your child deviating from any set threshold

Cons:

• Unblocking pages is a cumbersome task
• Only offers the reports for a maximum of 7 days
• Lacks extensive reporting for which, you have to go with the paid version
• Doesn't have an iOS version

Part 3: Qustodio

Qustodio is the free porn blocker for you if you prefer to safeguard your children from porn at any cost. We are serious! This is perhaps the only free porn blocking software that works on all sorts of devices, such as, PCs (Mac and Windows), smart phones (iOS and Android), and even Kindles. That's quite a coverage, don't you think? Moreover, it is the ease of operation that Qustodio comes with, that makes it such an effective porn blocker. Like many others, it is a browser based software and so is very adept at filtering pornography and making your kids' time on the internet, pleasant and healthy. Let's take a look at some of its cool features now.

Key Features:

1. Facebook activity recording feature that allows you to keep a track of status updates and photo uploads by your children and their friends

2. Auto alert setup that gets triggered as soon as your child attempts to access a prohibited web site

3. Panic button (only on Android version) for your child's safety

4. Comes with a preset list of web site categories to ban for easy customization

Pros:

• Makes it very easy to manage different user profiles
• Lets you set up time limits, not only for internet usage and web sites, but also apps
• Stores detailed logs of internet activity with easy online access
• One of the very few free porn blockers that comes with support documentation that's keyword search friendly

Cons:

• There's no option to get text alerts for notifications or reports
• Somewhat poor performance on web-filtering

Part 4: Microsoft Family Safety

Family Safety from Microsoft is a comprehensive free porn blocker that you can go with. In addition to blocking porn and ensuring that your children are on the safe side of the internet, it also comes bundled with the other free software in the form of Window's Life Essential Suite - which is a big plus for many of us! Right out of the box, it comes with adequate amount of web filters in place, making the job of setting it up a lot easier as compared with some of its competitors. Overall, Microsoft Family Safety does a great job filtering pornography sites and yet intelligently giving access to children friendly material on sex education. Although, we believe that the preset filters that it comes with can be a bit stricter. Here's a quick view of the many key features of this free porn blocker.

Key Features:

1. Works on Windows PCs and Laptops, and also Windows Phones

2. Lets you keep a track of apps your children use when on the computer

3. Comes with the ability of blocking not just web sites, but also movies, games and apps on the basis of age restrictions

Pros:

• Best free porn blocker for all households using Windows
• Screen time and daily limit scheduling helps in better control
• Age based blocking of apps, media and web sites
• Option of locating child's phone (works only with Windows phones)

Cons:

• Doesn't work with other operating systems except Windows, such as, iOS, Mac and Android
• No information on what categories are being blocked, offers less control in that area
• Content filter is mostly successful only with Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge
• For user customization, one needs to create an email account for every child

Part 5: Pic Block

Another free porn blocker, Pic Block, has been a successful alternative to many of the paid porn blockers of today. It's a free porn blocking software in its own league as it mainly works on filtering out pornographic images when your children are on the internet. Essentially, what it does is not display any image online, on website or email, that may have a remote closeness to pornography. One of the interesting facts of how Pic Block works is that it uses its own facial recognition algorithms to differentiate between safe and pornographic materials. This is a difficult thing to do, of course, and the software ends up blocking even safe images sometimes. Still, it's a small issue that most parents would be willing to overlook, when it comes to preventing their young children from getting exposed to online porn. How useful can Pic Block be for you, let's find out.

Key Features:

1. Prevents your children from using bad words online, by recognizing mature language, including swearing, beforehand

2. Works on all browsers as it is independent of them

3. Lets you block words that are non-English

4. Is effective against internet proxies, if your children decide to act smart

Pros:

• Highly effective against popup ads, emails containing spam and other kind of pornographic material
• Runs in the background with minimum intervention and still successfully prevents children from accessing porn, even by accident
• Is very easy to set up and use
• Offers easy to follow documentation

Cons:

• Only works on Windows PCs and laptops
• Not useful in blocking porn videos unless the specific websites have been blocked already
• Doesn't offer the option of creating user lists
• Lack of detailed reports is a dampner

Part 6: BlockSmart

BlockSmart is perhaps the only free porn blocker in our list that comes with an easy 3-step installation process. And, this means lesser headache for the not so tech savvy parents out there. Because of it's simple installation feature, one can start monitoring internet activity on their computer within a few minutes itself, if not seconds. Although simple, BlockSmart is a powerful free porn blocking software nonetheless. It effectively prevents your kids from accessing objectionable web sites, such as, porn, drug paraphernalia, and hate sites. It is a web based application too, so that means you can control BlockSmart from any part of the world, as long as you have access to the internet. Interested in its key features? Let's take a look.

Key Features:

1. Easy to install on any computer

2. Lets you block porn web sites in real time, from anywhere in the world

Pros:

Has a very small footprint with the size of just a little over 1 MB

Comes with 3-step easy installation feature

Allows access to the admin backend on the go, location independent monitoring capabilities

Cons:

Has no version available for non-Windows users

Although designed to run in the background, can be easily stopped from starting through service manager

Part 7: Kurupira WebFilter

We are almost at the end of our list, but we still have a few super effective free porn blocking software left to be mentioned in this list. One such free porn blocker is Kurupira WebFilter. It is an easy to use porn blocking tool that allow you to block web sites and filter web content that have pornography in them. This nifty software does a great job at it too, using it's artificial intelligence based porn recognition techniques. Let's dive right into its amazing features that make it a worthy free porn blocker for you to try.

Key Features:

1. Works with programs and apps too

2. Allows monitoring of IM apps and social media activities of your child

Pros:

Option of free update to get the database of thousands of inappropriate web sites

One of the very few free porn blocking software to come with time control and detailed usage reports

Free porn blocker for Windows users

Cons:

Doesn't support devices other than PCs and laptops

No support for Mac, iOS and Android either

Lacks user specific customization

Part 8: netCheckPost

Need a silent yet comprehensive free porn blocker? Then look no further, netCheckPost Family Internet Protection is all you need. It gets easily installed on all Windows PCs or laptops, mainly Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, offering amazing web monitoring capabilities for the concerned parents. The latest version of netCheckPost is even more reliable and potent when it comes to preventing children from accessing pornographic web sites on the internet. It blocks any attempt of trying to access blocked and objectionable websites. It's an excellent choice for you if you would like to protect your young ones from adult and mature content, plaguing the world of internet.

Key Features:

1. Has a dynamic web database that is continually growing with newer adult content sites being added

2. Has lesser customization options and hence easy to configure

Pros:

• Supports even older version of Windows, like Win XP
• Successfully blocks access to objectionable sites such as porn and adult content web sites

Cons:

• Not for everyone as doesn't support Mac, iOS and Android
• Doesn't support user based customizations

Part 9: WebPatrol

WebPatrol from Sevnsoft is a customizable and free porn blocker that comes in real handy for protective parents. It is also one of the more comprehensive free porn blocking software on our list and offers dependable protection against porn and other adult content on web sites, social media, messenger and even game activities. It does offer the option of reports that you can access remotely. Like many other free porn blockers on this list, WebPatrol also offers time control. All in all, WebPatrol is a great alternative to many of the highly priced porn blockers available in the market today and we rank it the 2nd last on our list for that reason.

Key Features:

1. Has one of the best GUIs of all the free porn blockers on this list

2. Option of restricting access to only a certain web pages and not just the whole web site

Pros:

• Smaller file size, about 2 MB
• Supports Windows, so a lot of users out there can protect their children
• Option of monitoring even the keystrokes of your children

Cons:

• No support for multiple devices
• Doesn't offer any protection to non-Windows users

Part 10: Stop P-O-R-N

Last but not the least on our list of free porn blockers, we highly recommend, Stop P-O-R-N for all those parents who want a bit more discreet way of blocking porn from getting to their children. One of the best features of Stop P-O-R-N is that it works by looking up keywords in everything that's being accessed online. Suppose a web site name contains the word porn or similar objectionable terms, Stop P-O-R-N will close the browser window as soon as it detects that. Here are some of its features that make it worthy of making it to our list.

Key Features:

1. Allows you to block file sharing websites or applications that can be used for spam

2. Comes with a key logger that'll help parents keep a track of what their children are looking for when online

Pros:

• Advanced features such as key logger and time control
• Easy setup and no nonsense approach towards blocking adult content

Cons:

• Only suitable to protect very young children
• Can be easily deactivated by anyone who knows their way around PC
• Works only on Windows PCs and laptops