Voice chat safety

If something happens in voice chat,
you'll be the first to know.

Halo listens to the conversations when your child is gaming, and lets you know when something needs your attention.

Built for
Parents of 8-16
Watching
Voice chat
Games
Roblox · Fortnite · Minecraft · Discord · every other game your kid plays
Available
iOS · Mac · Windows Android · June
Harassed in voice chat
3in 4
young gamers aged 10-17 are harassed in voice chat while playing online.
Sexual contact, age 9-12
1in 3
boys aged 9-12 had an online sexual interaction in 2024.
How fast it can move
18min
for grooming to escalate to a sexual conversation.

When something happens

This is what you'll see.

When Halo flags a moment, you get an AI summary of what happened and a paraphrased conversation. That's it. Nothing recorded. Nothing to listen to. Enough to start the conversation with your kid.

Personal details shared ~8 min · yesterday
Your child shared their school name, year level, and suburb with another player, who claimed to live nearby and suggested meeting up after school.
Unknown player
Asked your child where they live.
Your child
Named their suburb and their school by name.
Unknown player
Asked what year level they're in.
Your child
Confirmed they're in year 8.
Unknown player
Said they live nearby and suggested meeting up after school.
What's in a play-by-play
summary
One line. Plain language. A summary of what happened.
paraphrased
Each turn described in plain language, not quoted. The shape of the conversation, not the words. Never the recording.
context
When it happened, how long it lasted. Enough to act on.
why it matters
You can read it in 20 seconds and start a real conversation. That's the whole point.

Privacy & how it works

Your child's voice never leaves their phone.
Not even to us.

No AI company gets your kid's voice. We don't either. You get enough of a signal to start a real conversation.

01
Your kid plays a game and speaks in voice chat. Halo listens on their device.
02
The audio is transcribed to text, on the device.
03
Halo's on-device AI checks the text for grooming, bullying, threats, self-harm, and off-platform pressure.
04
If something's flagged, you get a paraphrased play-by-play. That's the only thing that reaches you.
05
Then it's deleted. No voice conversations stored. No transcripts kept. Gone.
  • Kid wearing headset playing online voice chat games
  • Parent reviewing a Halo voice chat alert on their phone
  • Children playing Roblox together on a tablet
  • Family discussing online safety at home
  • Teen playing Fortnite with a gaming headset
  • Discord voice chat session in progress on a desktop
  • Parent receiving a real-time safety notification from Halo
  • Child gaming on a Mac with voice chat enabled
  • Halo dashboard showing recent voice chat alerts
  • Kid laughing while playing online with friends

One app.
Every game. Every device.

iOS Mac Windows

I already use
parental controls…

Bark, Aura, and Qustodio watch typing, screenshots, and screen time. None of them watch voice.

Channel
Halo
Bark
Aura
Qustodio
Voice chat (in-game)
×
×
×
Discord voice
×
×
×
Text messages
×
×
Screenshots
×
×
Web & app filtering
×
×
Voice stays on the phone
×
×
×
Real-time alerts
Price / month
$8
$14
$20
$8

Keep what you've got. Halo just covers the part nobody else does.

Pricing.

$149.99 / year~$12.50/mo · billed annually
$19.99 / monthbilled monthly
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Honest answers

Questions parents ask.

How it works
01 Is voice chat actually being recorded? +
No. Halo listens on the phone itself while the chat is happening, and forgets what it heard the moment the session ends. If something does flag, you get a summary and a paraphrased conversation. Not the whole game. Not the day.
02 Won't there be a lot of false alarms? +
A few will land that didn't need to. No safety system gets it right every time. Halo only fires a flag when it's confident it's seeing a real pattern: grooming, threats, asks for personal info or images. Not a single word, not one heated line. Every flag has a "this was fine" button. Tap it once and Halo learns your kid's context, and similar moments stop flagging. In our beta, fewer than 1% of sessions flagged, and the false-alarm rate kept dropping as parents trained it.
03 Isn't this just surveillance? +
We don't think so, and we built it that way on purpose. No transcripts. No live feed. Most days you'll open the app and see nothing, which is by design. We tell parents to tell their kids it's running, and a tool built to spy wouldn't look like this. It's closer to a smoke alarm than a security camera.
Setup & telling your kid
04 Does my child know Halo is running? +
On iOS, yes, they tap to start each session, so they know it's running. On Mac and Windows it's automatic, with no home-screen icon, no sound, and no notification on their device.
05 Should I tell my child Halo is running? +
Yes. Kids who know there's a backstop tend to be the ones who actually use it. They bring stuff to you. The conversation works best when it's short: "If anything weird happens in voice chat, I'll see it, and I'm here." That's the whole thing. It doesn't have to be heavy.
06 My kid is tech-savvy. Won't they uninstall it? +
You'll know if they try. If a session happens without Halo running, or your child removes the app, it shows up on your end. We see voice chat as a conversation, not a cage: it's fine to have, on the condition that Halo is on.
Coverage & platforms
07 Does it work on Android? +
Not yet. We started with iOS because Apple's audio plumbing is more predictable, and that matters a lot when you're trying not to miss something or cry wolf. Android is coming, and it'll ship when it works as well as the iPhone version, not before. If you want to know the day it's ready, email hello@halosafe.app and we'll keep you on the list.
08 Does Halo work on Mac and Windows? +
Yes. iOS, Mac, and Windows all run on the same family subscription. Discord voice works on Mac and Windows today. iOS Discord is being built and rolls out free to anyone already subscribed when it's ready.
09 What about iPad? +
Covered. iPad uses the same iOS app and the same subscription. We test against the iPad versions of Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft on every release.
10 What about Discord, WhatsApp & Snapchat? +
Discord voice already works on Mac and Windows, and so does WhatsApp on the computer. iOS Discord is being built. WhatsApp and Snapchat voice on phones are harder: mobile apps wall their audio off from the rest of the system, but we're scoping them. Every new platform has to clear the same accuracy bar Roblox did.
11 Which countries is Halo available in? +
English-speaking markets at launch: US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand. The model is trained on English voice chat right now. Other languages are coming, but we won't ship them until they're as accurate as the English version.
Account & alternatives
12 How is this different from any other monitoring service like Bark or Aura? +
Aura is one of our biggest competitors. They watch typed messages, screenshots, identity, and screen time. Bark covers text and screenshots. Both are good at what they do. Neither one listens to voice chat, and that's where a lot of the harm in modern games actually lives. Most families end up running Halo alongside one of them: text and screen time from Bark or Aura, voice from us.
13 Sometimes my child is alone and silent in voice chat. Would I still get a session? +
Yes. Every voice chat session shows up on your dashboard, even if your child plays alone or doesn't say much. You'll see the time, the game, and how long it ran. If nothing was flagged, that's the whole entry. Most sessions look like that, and that's the normal state. We're also building recaps of the good stuff that happened in-game, like funny lines, wins, who they played with, so you hear about more than just the flags.
14 How does the family subscription math work? +
$149.99 a year covers your whole family, unlimited kids, unlimited devices. That works out to about $12.50 a month total. No add-ons, no per-child fees, no per-platform fees. One price.
15 How do I cancel? What happens to my data? +
One tap in the app, or an email. That's it. No retention call, no "are you sure" loop. Within 24 hours, every flag and account record tied to your family is permanently deleted. The voice itself we never had to begin with.
16 I should just talk to my kid. Why do I need Halo? +
You should, and Halo isn't a replacement for that. It just gives you something specific to ask about. "Halo flagged something today, can we look at it together?" lands very differently than "did anything weird happen today?" Most kids don't volunteer the bad stuff. They open up when a parent already knows enough to ask.

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