Is it really free?
Yes. The extension is free to install today, and there is nothing to buy yet even if you wanted to. It is an early build: good at images and short videos, not yet checking text or audio, and it will miss things. The plan is to charge later for the family layer, monitoring and alerts across five devices, and never for the extension itself.
How do you know what's fake?
Two ways, and we always tell you which one it was. The first is proof. A growing number of AI tools stamp their output with a signature: Midjourney and Stable Diffusion write a tag into the file, Content Credentials is becoming an industry standard, and YouTube and TikTok label AI videos themselves. When one of those is there, we can say it is AI-made.
The second is judgment. When there is no proof, a detector running on your own computer looks at the picture, or at several frames of a video, and makes its call. The popup says plainly when a call is a judgment rather than proof, and it never hands you a made-up percentage.
How often will it actually flag something?
On videos, every time you stop on one: a Short, a TikTok or a Reel gets a red, yellow or green call once the detector has looked at a few frames. On pictures, less often than you might expect, because a picture is only flagged when its file carries an AI marker or our detector is confident, and it is tuned to stay quiet rather than call your own photos fake.
That tuning is the whole story of this product. Our first two detectors called most real photographs AI-made, so we switched them off. The one running now replaced them only after beating them on exactly that test: it flagged about 1 in 100 real video frames. It still misses things, especially from the newest AI video tools, so green means we saw no signs of AI, not that something is guaranteed real.
Isn't this just antivirus?
Antivirus recognizes known bad files. The thing we worry about is not a file, it is behavior. Software that reads your screen, moves your mouse, and signs into your accounts looks exactly like a person using the computer, which is why it walks straight past the tools you already have.
Do you read my files, photos or messages?
No. The scan looks at what programs are running and what they are connected to, never the contents of your documents. It makes no network connections at all, so nothing can leave your machine even by accident. The whole scan is a plain text file you can read in Notepad before you run it, which is a stronger answer than any promise we could write here.
Mac or Windows?
The browser extension works on Chrome and Edge, on both Windows and Mac. The computer scan is Windows only for now; a Mac version comes after.
Is there a phone app?
Not yet. It is third on the list, after the browser extension and the computer scan, and we want to be straight about why. Phones deliberately stop any app from seeing what other apps are doing, so the scan that makes this useful on a computer is not something we can simply move to a phone. When the phone app comes, it will work by knowing your family's real numbers and telling you when a call is not from one of them.
Can you really tell if a voice is fake?
Not reliably, and anyone who tells you they can is selling something. The thing that genuinely stops these calls is hanging up and dialing the number you already have saved, and that is what we intend to automate.
Who is behind this?
A small independent team in Utah. Not a private equity rollup of three antivirus brands you have already heard of.
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