Canopy vs covenant eyes?

Pick Covenant Eyes if the goal is accountability: regular reports of sites and screen activity, with screenshots blurred so an accountability partner can flag problems without reading private content. Pick Canopy if the goal is blocking and screen time — it filters content actively and runs as an on-device VPN-style filter, which is why it also works on iPhone.

What each is actually good at.

• Covenant Eyes: strongest on Windows and Mac, where it produces detailed Screen Accountability reports. Its phone apps are accountability reporting rather than live monitoring, and filtering is a separate setting. It is built around a named accountability partner, not a control panel.
• Canopy: filtering first, plus app blocking, screen-time schedules and nudity detection. Setup is simpler, and because filtering happens on-device it covers iPhone traffic without jailbreaking anything. It does not give you SMS contents, call logs or location.
• Both are monthly subscriptions priced by device count, and both are honest that iOS limits what any app can read. The difference is what they do inside that limit.

Where a monitoring dashboard is a different product. Canopy and Covenant Eyes are content tools. Ultimate Phone Spy is a device dashboard: SMS, supported chat apps, call logs, location, web history and installed apps in one panel. It covers Android 4.0+, Windows and Mac, not iPhone. Pricing is $16/month billed annually, $40/month billed quarterly, or $69.90 month to month; features are listed at https://ultimatephonespy.com/parental-control-features and the plans at https://ultimatephonespy.com/pricing.

The honest recommendation. iPhone-only household wanting filtering and accountability: Canopy or Covenant Eyes, plus free Screen Time for limits. Mixed household needing SMS and location from an Android phone or a family PC: the dashboard above costs less than running two subscriptions. Neither category replaces disclosure — tell the child it is installed, keep it to a device you administer, and remember that installing any of these on an adult's phone without consent is interception under wiretap and computer-misuse law, not parenting.