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.
Free to start — no credit card. Social-media blocking is free forever. Complete Protection is $9.99/month after your 7-day trial.
Built by an Aussie family on the Sunshine Coast. Hosted in Australia.
No raw messages. No screenshots. Ever.
Every child, every device, at a glance. When everything's fine, all you see is green.
Conversation starters appear here every day — not just when something's wrong.
An adult your child doesn't appear to know has been making increasingly personal contact in a Roblox chat — asking where they live, where they go to school, suggesting they meet in person. Asking your child to keep it secret.
No raw messages. No screenshots. Just what you need to know — and a gentle way to bring it up.
The risks aren't only on social media. Gaming chat, search, content that disguises itself as kid-friendly — Aunty Bea looks across all of it.
What you see depends a little on the device. Apple makes some things possible, others not. We're honest about that.
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. It's free for as long as Aunty Bea is on your devices.
Every app on your child's device is engineered to win their attention. Most of them won't say so out loud — but that's the design.
Aunty Bea doesn't pick which ones your family uses. You do. Some are fine. Some aren't. Some are fine right now and won't be in a year. That's a family conversation, not ours to have.
Once you've had it — why this one, why not that one, why everyone seems to be on it but we're not yet — Bea makes your decision stick on the device.
The conversation is the part that matters. The blocking just makes it real.
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.
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 five year old daughter. We know what's out there now.
Aunty Bea exists because these things happen to real families. We are those families.
What you tell a seven-year-old about screens isn't what you'll tell a fourteen-year-old. Younger children mostly take your word for it. Older children often have strong opinions before you get the chance to ask one.
Aunty Bea works for both — and everything in between. Because the conversations don't stop. They just keep changing.
Install Aunty Bea on your child's device. We watch the device. You stay the parent.
Create your account at auntybea.app — that's your parent dashboard, where you'll see summaries and manage everything. Then install the Aunty Bea companion app on your child's Android or iOS device. Takes a few minutes.
Aunty Bea runs silently on your child's device, looking for grooming patterns, harmful content, and anything a child shouldn't have to navigate alone. Not your child's private messages — the patterns around them.
No raw content. No screenshots. Just a calm, clear summary on your parent dashboard so you know what's worth talking about.
Aunty Bea gives you the heads-up. You have the chat. It's still your relationship — we just help you stay informed.
Apple and Google allow apps to do different things on a child's device — and we won't pretend otherwise. Android is the fullest version today; on iPhone we work within Apple's stricter rules. Either way, the promise is the same: summaries, never raw content.
Apple and Google have made very different choices about what apps are allowed to see and do on a child's device. Both choices are defensible. They aren't the same.
Aunty Bea works within the rules of each platform — and the rules are different. Here's what that means for your family.
Apple builds privacy into the operating system. Apps cannot read what's happening inside other apps — not Aunty Bea, not anyone. So on an iPhone or iPad, Aunty Bea works at the network layer:
On top of the network layer, Aunty Bea adds two things that work together inside Safari:
A Safari extension. Aunty Bea reads along with your child in Safari — gently, on-device — and flags pages that slip into harmful territory. When that happens, your child sees a calm in-page heads-up from Aunty Bea, and you get a plain-language summary on your dashboard. The reading and matching happen on your child's phone. Nothing leaves it unless a page is flagged — and when one is, you see just that moment: a short snippet and the page it came from, never their whole browsing history.
A browser shield. Because Safari is the one browser on iPhone where Aunty Bea can ride along, we help you keep your child there. If they tap Chrome, Firefox, or any other browser you've put aside, iOS shows a polite “not right now” lock screen. Nothing's uninstalled. Nothing's punished. Your family decides what's safe — toggle the shield on or off from your dashboard whenever that picture shifts. Safari stays available — that's where Aunty Bea works.
Together they give us a meaningful look at how your child uses the open web on iOS — within Apple's system. That's the deal — and it's still a meaningful look.
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.
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:
Android is the fullest version of Aunty Bea today.
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, and we work within them. But if you're choosing a device for your child, it's worth knowing the difference is real.
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.
Aunty Bea stores account information and pattern-level signals on our own servers, hosted in Australia. We never store your child's raw messages, photos, or browsing history. Parents only ever see plain-language summaries — never the underlying content.
When Aunty Bea needs to assess whether something is worth flagging on Android, the on-screen text from that moment is sent to Anthropic — the AI safety company that builds Claude — to generate the summary. Anthropic retains that data for 7 days under their commercial terms, and it's never used to train their AI models. We picked them for exactly that reason.
Full detail in our privacy policy.
Aunty Bea is built by Ray and Renie Robinson — parents of three, based on the Sunshine Coast — through our company Hidden City 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.
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.
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.
If you've had moments like that — or you're trying not to — Aunty Bea is for you.
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