Reviews of SPIN Safe Browser

By: National Education Technologies Inc.

List of user reviews and ratings for SPIN Safe Browser

Total ratings

4.40 (Rating count: 2,405)

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Review summary

Users praise SPIN Safe Browser for strong porn/content blocking and safety advantages, plus good integration with Apple Configurator and broad site blocking. However, repeated issues with stability, uninstallability, over-blocking legitimate content (like YouTube), a clunky UI, and tab management frustrations, as well as background activity affecting Screen Time, are common. Overall it’s valued for safety but hampered by performance and usability problems.

Pros

Effectively blocks porn and adult content, providing strong safety for users who want to restrict explicit material.
Offers safer browsing beyond standard parental controls and works well with Apple Configurator for system-level restrictions.
Blocks a broad range of sites (including social media and video platforms) to reduce distractions and improve safety.
Provides built-in safeguards and a peace-of-mind factor for parents and guardians.

Cons

Frequent crashes and stability issues; some links don’t load and performance is inconsistent.
Difficult or impossible to delete/uninstall the app in some cases, which can be frustrating for users.
Over-blocking of legitimate content (e.g., certain YouTube videos) and other sites, leading to inconvenience.
Unfriendly or unintuitive UI, plus tab management problems (e.g., you can’t easily close all tabs).
Background usage can count toward Screen Time limits, causing unexpected blocking during idle or background activity.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 4.00

All time rating average: 4.40

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1% (17)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-04-18	Na*****	Not really helpful a nuff and not good a nuff
Not really helpful a nuff and not good a nuff
2026-03-19	Pu*****	this is so awsome. This blocks all YouTube , ticktock, instagram, all that stuff. Still a good browsing app for protecting your kids
this is so awsome. This blocks all YouTube , ticktock, instagram, all that stuff. Still a good browsing app for protecting your kids
2026-03-15	Pi*****	UI kinda sucks. My mom made me install it. Blocks a lot of websites unnecessarily (the moon shoes website😑). But it works as an unintuitive browser. Whenever I leave it running in the background, it still counts as screentime so I get blocked from using it bc I have a 1.5 hr limit. Just get Chrome with a vpn if you’re a parent.
UI kinda sucks. My mom made me install it. Blocks a lot of websites unnecessarily (the moon shoes website😑). But it works as an unintuitive browser. Whenever I leave it running in the background, it still counts as screentime so I get blocked from using it bc I have a 1.5 hr limit. Just get Chrome with a vpn if you’re a parent.