BrightCanary
The facts below are what the maker publishes about BrightCanary, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From BrightCanary's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $14.99 a month | BrightCanary monitoring · $14.99 per month |
| Annual | $99.99 a year | BrightCanary monitoring · $99.99 per year |
The facts
Each one read from BrightCanary's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Activity reports
- Yeschecked 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.checked 12 Oct 2026
- AI summaries
- BrightCanary provides AI-powered summaries and emotional insights about a child’s activity.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Alerts
- BrightCanary sends real-time alerts about topics including self-harm, drugs, explicit messages, and bullying, with customizable categories and sensitivity.checked 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.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Google and YouTube
- Parents can connect a child’s Google account to monitor Google searches and YouTube activity.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Keyboard monitoring
- Its keyboard-based monitoring captures what children type across apps, including messages, searches, and comments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Language limit
- The FAQ says BrightCanary currently supports English keyboards only.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Monitoring limit
- BrightCanary monitors what a child types, not the content shown in social media feeds.checked 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.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- BrightCanary helps parents guide, protect, and connect with children as they navigate the digital world.checked 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.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Text messages
- The service monitors full text conversations, including received messages, images, videos, group chats, and deleted texts.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- 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.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Platform limit
- BrightCanary does not support computer monitoring.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2022checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker and launch
- BrightCanary launched in 2022, and its About page identifies Tacita, Inc. in its copyright and privacy-policy references.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
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