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

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.

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 child'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.

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 children 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.

On iOS, yes, they tap to start each session, so they know it's running. On Mac and Windows it starts automatically and runs quietly in the background — the main sign is a small Halo icon in the system tray or menu bar. No sounds, no pop-ups, nothing interrupting their game. On Mac, macOS also shows its standard orange microphone dot while any app listens.

Yes. Children 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.

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.

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 in the works, 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.

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.

Covered. iPad uses the same iOS app and the same subscription. We test against the iPad versions of Roblox and Fortnite on every release.

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.

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.

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.

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.

$69.99 a year (AU$99.99 in Australia) covers your whole family, unlimited children, unlimited devices. That works out to about $5.83 a month total. No add-ons, no per-child fees, no per-platform fees. One price.

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.

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 children don't volunteer the bad stuff. They open up when a parent already knows enough to ask.