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Some things your child sees online — you need to know about.

The hardest conversations with your child start with something that happened online. Aunty Bea tells you when it matters, and helps you talk about it.

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Built by an Aussie family on the Sunshine Coast. Australian owned and operated.

Bea noticed a pattern worth talking about

An adult your child doesn't appear to know has been asking where they live in a gaming chat.

Try opening with“Hey, has anyone in your games been asking where you live…?”
Ollie · Roblox chat · 7:40pm— Bea
01 — What parents actually see

Bea tells you what to worry about — not what your child said.

Three notes cover most days: all clear, something worth a chat, and a way to start it.

01

All looking good today

All looking good today
No concerning activity across your child's devices.
Recent activity
YYouTube RRoblox DDiscord

Every child, every device, at a glance. When everything's fine, that is all you see — and a conversation starter, every day, not just when something's wrong.

02

Something worth discussing

Bea noticed a pattern worth talking about

An adult your child doesn't appear to know has been asking where they live in a gaming chat.

Ollie · Pixel · Roblox chat

You'll never scroll your child's messages in Aunty Bea. You get a plain-English summary of what looked risky — and why it matters.

03

A safe space to talk

Conversation starter
Try opening with“Hey, has anyone in your games been asking where you live, or wanting to hang out in real life?”

Your words, your timing. Bea gives you the opening; the conversation stays yours.

Aunty Bea isn't only a safety net. She's a way into the conversations that are hard to start — with an opening that fits your child's age.

02 — The parent dashboard

One calm page. Every device.

Phones, tablets, browsers and the family computer, all reporting to the one place — as notes, not a feed.

one note, not a feed
she says why it matters, and how to open the chat
03 — Bea notices

Quiet observations. Not alarms.

Aunty Bea doesn't shout. She notices things, and tells you in plain English — the way a person would, not the way a security system does.

All looking good today

No concerning activity across your child's devices. Social Lock is on, nothing was blocked, nothing needs you.

Every device · Tuesday

Bea noticed something

A new adult account has been chatting with your child. Here's something worth asking about.

Try opening with“Who's this new person you've been chatting with — how do you know them?”
Mia · iPad · Discord— Bea

Bea stopped something

A violence-related page was blocked. Your child is safe, and you're aware.

Blocked on the device. Nothing to do unless you want to talk about it.

Jasper · iPhone · Safari · 4:12pm

Bea noticed a search

Your child searched for content related to self-harm. Here's a suggested conversation starter.

Try opening with“I've been thinking about you today. How are things, honestly — not the school answer?”
Ollie · Pixel · browser search— Bea
04 — How it works

Simple protection. No tech degree required.

Install Aunty Bea on your child's device. Bea watches the device. You stay the parent.

  1. 01

    Sign up

    Create your account at auntybea.app. That's your parent dashboard, where you'll read the notes and manage everything.

  2. 02

    Set up your child's device

    Install the Aunty Bea companion app on their Android or iOS device, or the browser extension on the family computer. A few minutes, once.

  3. 03

    Bea works in the background

    Checks happen on the device. Only the type of concern, the app or site, and a page title ever leave it — never the on-screen text.

  4. 04

    You get the note. You have the chat.

    A plain-English summary of what looked risky, and how to talk about it. It's still your relationship — we just help you stay informed.

05 — What Aunty Bea can see

Bea goes where they go.

Phones, tablets, browsers and the family computer — every device reporting to the one parent dashboard.

iPhone & iPad

The Aunty Bea companion app for your child's iPhone or iPad. Built on Apple's Family Controls — the framework Apple grants only to approved child-safety apps.

On the App Store — installed on your child's device during setup.

Android

The companion app for your child's Android phone or tablet. Paired to your dashboard during setup.

On Google Play — installed on your child's device during setup.

Chrome & Edge

For the shared laptop and the homework computer. The Aunty Bea Browser Guardian extension works in Chrome and Microsoft Edge on Windows, Mac and Chromebook, and keeps the same promise as everywhere else: summaries for parents, never raw content.

Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons — added to the family browser during setup.

Mac

Watches over Safari on the family MacBook or iMac. Downloaded directly from us and paired with your dashboard like any other device. For Chrome on a Mac, add the Browser Guardian extension as well.

Direct download from auntybea.app — provided during setup.

One dashboard. Every device. The same promise on all of them: your child's safety and their dignity, protected together.

06 — Straight talk

Aunty Bea works differently on iPhone and Android.

Apple and Google allow apps to do different things on a child's device — and we won't pretend otherwise. Both choices are defensible. They aren't the same.

On iPhone & iPad

Apple builds privacy into the operating system. Apps cannot read what's happening inside other apps — not Aunty Bea, not anyone. So Bea works at the network layer, and inside Safari.

  • Blocks adult content sites and harmful domains
  • Logs every blocked attempt so you can see patterns
  • Turns off the social media apps your family doesn't want
  • Tells you when Aunty Bea has been disabled, removed, or tampered with
  • A Safari extension reads along on the device and flags pages that slip into harmful territory — your child sees a calm heads-up, you get a note
  • A browser shield keeps Safari the browser, so Bea can ride along
What Aunty Bea cannot do on iOS: see what's happening inside a chat in Roblox, Discord, WhatsApp, or any other app. Apple doesn't allow that — for any monitoring tool, including ours.
On Android

Google allows apps to see on-screen content with the parent's explicit permission. So on Android, Aunty Bea can do everything it does on iOS — and also:

  • Reads on-screen text in apps and chats as it appears — on the device
  • Spots grooming patterns, bullying and harmful content as it happens
  • Sends only the type of concern it found — never the on-screen text
  • Turns that into a plain-language note when a conversation is worth having
Android is the fullest version of Aunty Bea today. If you're choosing a device for your child, it's worth knowing the difference is real.

Why we don't pretend it's the same

Some products tell you they see everything on every device. They can't. We could write the page that way too — most of our competitors do — but it wouldn't be true, and you deserve a straight answer before you install anything on your child's device.

Apple's choices are Apple's choices. We work within them.Ray & Renie
07 — Free · Aunty Bea Social Lock

Your family decides. We make it stick.

When you install Aunty Bea on your family's devices, social-media blocking — Aunty Bea Social Lock — is free. No expiry, no cost, no card.

Bea blocks the platforms that are age-restricted under Australia's under-16 ban, including these. It isn't a fixed list — new platforms come under it over time, and Bea's coverage grows with it.

Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Snapchat X (Twitter) Reddit Threads Twitch Kick
Free forever No expiry No card Australian owned & operated

The conversation is the part that matters.

The blocking just makes it real.

Say it once. Bea keeps it that way on every device.— Bea
08 — Complete Protection

Social media bans help. They don't stop grooming in games.

  • They don't stop harmful content disguised as children's videos.
  • They don't stop strangers in private chats.

Aunty Bea can't be everywhere your child is. But she blocks what you choose, flags what she can see, and makes sure you're never the last to know.

That's what Complete Protection covers — included free for your first 7 days.

Complete Protection
$9.99AUD / month

7-day free trial · Cancel anytime · No credit card to start.

for the whole family — every child, every device

  • Monitoring across every paired device — phones, tablets, browsers, the Mac
  • Plain-English notes when something matters, never a feed of messages
  • Conversation starters that fit your child's age
  • The Village — a private community of parents who use the app
  • Social Lock stays free forever, with or without this
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09 — Why we built this

Two moments in our own family we couldn't stop thinking about.

Our oldest son was chatting online with another “child” who wanted him to travel from Brisbane to Sydney to meet up. Luckily we caught it in time.

Our youngest son watched a Peppa Pig video that had been hijacked with deeply disturbing content. He still can't sleep with the lights off.

We have a young daughter. We know what's out there now.

Aunty Bea exists because these things happen to real families. We are those families.

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Ray & Renie RobinsonParents of three · Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Built on the Sunshine Coast Australian owned and operated Built by parents
Who is Bea?

The auntie who happens to know an alarming amount about the internet.

Bea is the voice of the notes you'll read: warm, direct, never dramatic. She isn't a cartoon and she doesn't talk to your kids. She talks to you — plainly — about what she noticed, and what might be worth asking.

I'll only tap you on the shoulder when it matters. — Bea

10 — The Village · included with Complete Protection

You're not doing this alone.

The Village is a private community exclusively for parents who care about their kids' safety online. Every member is here for the same reason you are.

  • Share what you're seeing, ask questions, get real answers from other parents
  • No judgement — just people who get it
  • Built to grow with your family as the online world keeps changing
The Village
Private · parents only · inside your dashboard
Recent conversations
Roblox chat with a nine-year-old — what are you actually doing about it?
Group chats: when did you let them have one?
Our first "Bea noticed" note. How did you open the conversation?

Entry criteria: you care about your child. That's it.

11 — Privacy & trust

You'll never scroll your child's messages in Aunty Bea.

You get a plain-English summary of what looked risky, and how to talk about it. The goal is awareness, not surveillance.

A note, not a feed

Parents never receive a live feed of their child's activity. Aunty Bea analyses patterns and context, then sends a note only when something appears to need attention.

Only the type of concern leaves the device

On every device, Aunty Bea checks on the device and sends us only the type of concern it found, the app or site, and a page title — never the on-screen text. Your child's name is never sent with it.

Approved, owned, accountable

Approved by Apple for its Family Controls entitlement, granted only to genuine child-safety apps. Australian owned and operated. The plain-English notes are written by Claude, made by Anthropic, which keeps what it receives for up to 30 days and never uses it to train its models.

Full detail in our privacy policy

12 — Common questions

Straight answers.

Does Aunty Bea spy on my child?

You'll never scroll your child's messages in Aunty Bea. You get a plain-English summary of what looked risky, and how to talk about it.

Does Aunty Bea monitor everything on my child's device?

Not quite — and any product that tells you it does is worth a second look.

Aunty Bea monitors activity at the device level, allowing us to detect risks across most apps, websites, and online interactions. Exactly what can be monitored depends on the platform your child uses.

On Android, Bea has broader visibility and can identify potential risks across a wider range of apps and content, including some messaging activity once content is displayed on the device.

On iPhone and iPad, Apple's privacy architecture limits what any app can access. Encrypted services such as WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage remain private, meaning we can detect that your child is using these apps, but cannot access the content within them.

Regardless of platform, parents never receive a live feed of their child's activity. Instead, Aunty Bea analyses patterns and context, then sends an AI-generated summary only when something appears to need attention. The goal is awareness, not surveillance.

We explain these limits openly because trust matters. No technology can monitor everything, and some of the most important protection still comes from regular conversations between parents and children. Aunty Bea is designed to support those conversations, not replace them.

What data do you actually store, and where does it go?

Aunty Bea is Australian owned and operated; account information and pattern-level signals are stored on secure servers run by our infrastructure providers, who process data in the United States. You'll never scroll your child's messages in Aunty Bea. You get a plain-English summary of what looked risky, and how to talk about it.

On every device, Aunty Bea checks on the device and sends us only the type of concern it found, the app or site, and a page title — never the on-screen text. Anthropic, the AI safety company that builds Claude, turns that into the plain-English note you read; it never sees the on-screen text, retains what it does receive for up to 30 days under its commercial terms, and never uses it to train its models.

Your child's name is never sent with it.

Full detail in our privacy policy.

Who built this, and can I trust you?

Aunty Bea is built by Ray and Renie Robinson — parents of three, based on the Sunshine Coast — through our company Hidden City Tattoo Pty Ltd. We built this because we needed it ourselves. The AI that generates risk summaries is Claude, made by Anthropic — one of the world's leading AI safety research companies. We picked them on purpose.

Approved by Apple for its Family Controls entitlement — granted only to genuine child-safety and parental-control apps.

Which devices does it work on?

The companion app is available on both the Apple App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android). The parent dashboard works in any browser on any device — phone, tablet, or computer.

Aunty Bea works differently on iOS and Android because Apple and Google allow different things. We've explained that in detail further up the page — worth a read before you choose a device for your child.

Is there a free version?

Yes. Aunty Bea Social Lock is free forever — it blocks the platforms that are age-restricted under Australia's under-16 ban, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and X, with no trial, no expiry and no card required. It isn't a fixed list, and Bea's coverage grows as more platforms come under the ban. Complete Protection — the full monitoring and AI insights tier — starts with a 7-day free trial, then $9.99/month.

How much does it cost?

Aunty Bea has a free tier and a paid tier. Aunty Bea Social Lock — social-media blocking for the platforms that are age-restricted under Australia's under-16 ban — is free forever. No trial, no expiry, no card. Complete Protection (monitoring, AI summaries, conversation starters, The Village) starts with a 7-day free trial, then $9.99 AUD/month for your whole family — every child, every device. No ads, no data sold. Cancel anytime.

What is The Village?

The Village is a private community built into Aunty Bea, exclusively for parents who use the app. A space to ask questions, share what you're seeing, and get real support from other parents navigating the same challenges. Entry criteria: you care about your child. That's it.

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I'll let you know when it matters. — Bea

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