- Home
- Parental control apps
- BrightCanary
On the recordRead 12 Oct 202619 facts
BrightCanary
BrightCanary · Seattle, Washington, United States · founded 2022
Plans and prices
Monthly
$14.99a month
BrightCanary monitoring
Read 12 Oct 2026 · brightcanary.io
Annual
$99.99a year
BrightCanary monitoring
Read 12 Oct 2026 · brightcanary.io
On the record
- Activity reports
- Yesbrightcanary.io · read 22 Sep 2026
- AI data
- The privacy policy says personal data associated with a child’s monitored accounts is not sold or used to train third-party AI models.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- AI summaries
- BrightCanary provides AI-powered summaries and emotional insights about a child’s activity.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Alerts
- BrightCanary sends real-time alerts about topics including self-harm, drugs, explicit messages, and bullying, with customizable categories and sensitivity.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Device setup
- Monitoring requires installing the BrightCanary Keyboard on a child’s iPhone or iPad, and the FAQ also says keyboard-based monitoring works on Android devices.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Family sharing
- Family Viewing lets a parent or guardian invite another viewer to receive the same reports without account-change permissions, and the feature is free.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Google and YouTube
- Parents can connect a child’s Google account to monitor Google searches and YouTube activity.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Keyboard monitoring
- Its keyboard-based monitoring captures what children type across apps, including messages, searches, and comments.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Language limit
- The FAQ says BrightCanary currently supports English keyboards only.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Maker and launch
- BrightCanary launched in 2022, and its About page identifies Tacita, Inc. in its copyright and privacy-policy references.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Monitoring limit
- BrightCanary monitors what a child types, not the content shown in social media feeds.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Platform limit
- BrightCanary does not support computer monitoring.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- BrightCanary says it does not sell personal data, including children’s data, and that parents can request deletion of their or their child’s data.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- BrightCanary helps parents guide, protect, and connect with children as they navigate the digital world.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The privacy policy says data processed by the app’s AI component is stored using secure storage technologies, including encryption at rest.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
- Text messages
- The service monitors full text conversations, including received messages, images, videos, group chats, and deleted texts.brightcanary.io · read 12 Oct 2026
