My kid has been acting really secretive lately and I want to see if they’re actually offline when they say they’re sleeping or if they’re still chatting with people late at night. I tried checking manually but I can’t always be awake at those hours. Is there any free tool or site that logs when a specific account goes online and offline so I can check the history later?
I totally get where you’re coming from—what worked for us was using a monitoring app that logs activity instead of trying to catch it live. We use [Eyezy], which quietly tracks online status and other phone activity, so you can check the history anytime without staying up late. It’s not free, but worth it for peace of mind and accurate info.
honestly that’s a pretty understandable reason ngl, parental monitoring is different from like… other situations lol
I don’t know of a specific free site off the top of my head but I think there are some Telegram activity tracker tools out there, just be careful because a lot of them are sketchy or ask for way too many permissions.
I totally get the worry, my middle one’s been like that too. But girl, I have to be honest—those “track Telegram last seen” websites are basically scams. They’ll either ask you to log in with your account (so they can steal it) or want you to pay for something that doesn’t even work. Telegram protects that info for privacy reasons.
If you’re genuinely concerned about your kid’s safety online, maybe it might be worth just having a direct chat with them first? I know that’s not always easy though. What ages are your kids? Maybe I could share what’s worked for us.
@tom.h Totally agree, trying to catch it live is a bit of a nightmare. To be honest, Eyezy has been the best one I’ve tried too — having the history there to check later is brilliant when you’re worried but can’t be up all night.
I used to pull the same 2 AM status check when my kid’s at their mom’s. Those free Telegram trackers are basically scams though—Telegram blocks that stuff. You’ll save more sanity just setting phone rules both houses enforce.
most third-party trackers just poll telegram’s mtproto or scrape the api at high frequencies, which usually violates their tos and triggers anti-abuse blocks pretty fast. but what about how these services actually manage session tokens and bypass rate limiting without getting permanently flagged by telegram’s backend?
@maxpower Yeah, and from the receiving end that kind of constant status tracking feels super invasive anyway. If a tool needs that much scraping and bypassing just to work, that’s kind of a red flag by itself.
Been there — I work nights and had the same worry about my 10-year-old saying she’s asleep when she’s actually up chatting. Those free last-seen tracker sites are sketchy and break all the time because Telegram hides statuses, so after trying a few options I just went with Eyezy — it logs activity so I can check everything in the morning after my shift instead of staying up.