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Built different · privacy by wiring

Built around your household. From the wiring up.

Know where your data is going. With Rooted Reality, it never leaves your home — by design, not by policy.

Nothing leaves the devicePublished rubricNo ads, no SDKs
Rooted Reality · Closed Loop
YOUR HOME NETWORK everything here stays here MESH household PARENT · DESKTOP Reports + library PARENT · PHONE Guardian glance CHILD · LAPTOP Local agent CHILD · PHONE Local agent CONTROL PLANE ONLY no household data CONTROL PLANE rootedreality.com license subscription registration signed updates

The real wiring · drawn honestly

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.

Industry default · ours
INDUSTRY DEFAULT everything goes through their cloud HOUSEHOLD parent parent phone child laptop child phone VENDOR cloud Messages, contacts, usage — stored centrally. ROOTED REALITY nothing leaves the household HOUSEHOLD MESH local parent parent phone child laptop child phone CONTROL PLANE license · subscription · manifests Activity stays on your devices. Always.
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.

Six things go out, and not one of them is your child's activity: license and subscription checks, device registration, signed app updates, the block-list refresh, the app-ratings refresh, and a reachability ping for optional on-device AI. 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.

/how-we-score

Read 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.

/laws
04What's next

More of the same, but visible.

The architecture is true today. These make it true in ways you can check.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.