My daughter has always used a normal low end Android phone with the default parental controls. She only installs what I whitelist. It's really not that much effort.

Honestly, maybe the Gabb Phone marketing is lulling users into a false sense of security. If you still have to do the same legwork as the default Android experience, what's the point of their devices?

It is, they denied WhatsApp and Discord in their app stores for good reason but allowed GroupMe? That's a choice and not what I would call a good one.