Built around your household. From the wiring up.
Know where your data is going. With Rooted Reality, it never leaves your home.
01Where your child's stuff lives
Your devices, not ours.
Most family-safety tools work by streaming your child's activity to a company server — that's where the scoring and storage live. Ours doesn't work that way. The scoring runs on the desktop app. The reports stay on the desktop app. There's no wire from your home to us — by design, not by policy.
Left: how most family-safety tools work — activity streams to a vendor cloud where the scoring and storage happen. Right: how ours works — same job, but done on your devices. Same problem, opposite wiring.
02What we get right
Four things, kept simple.
The product will change. These four won't.
- 01
Your child's activity stays on your devices.
Not opt-in. Not encrypted-for-support. Not summarized. Whatever the desktop app sees on your devices stays there. There's no wire to send it through.
- 02
How we score apps is published.
You can read the rubric. You can disagree with it. You can link to it. A scoring system you can't read isn't a scoring system.
- 03
Nothing inside the app is selling to you.
No ads. No upsells. No tracking pixels. No third-party SDKs. You paid for the app and that's what you get.
- 04
What goes out is a list, not a vibe.
Four things go out: license check, subscription check, device registration, signed app updates. That's the whole list. Adding to it takes a public note.
03See for yourself
Our work, in the open.
Trust earned with things you can read today.
Read the rubric
How we score apps.
The full scoring method — what we look for, how we weigh it, what counts as evidence. Same page our team works from.
/methodologyRead the sources
Where the law claims come from.
Every state-law summary links to the statute, bill, or regulator page it came from. Disagreements are footnoted, not silenced.
/laws04What's next
More of the same, but visible.
The architecture is true today. These make it true in ways you can check.
- Planned
Independent privacy review.
An outside team reviews how the desktop app works — what goes out, what stays in, how updates are delivered. The report gets published, even the parts we'd rather hadn't turned up.
- Planned
Plain transparency report.
A short note, on a regular cadence: what goes out, what changed since the last note, how many households are on board. Boring on purpose.
- Planned
Open up the desktop code.
The desktop app's source becomes readable. You shouldn't have to take our word for the wiring — at some point you won't have to.
The desktop app does its job and gets out of the way.