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, not yet checking text, video, 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?
A growing number of AI tools stamp their own output with a signature. Midjourney and Stable Diffusion write a tag into the file, and Content Credentials is becoming an industry standard for the same thing. The extension reads those markers out of the file itself, which is why it can say an image is AI-made rather than guessing.
How often will it actually flag something?
Less often than you might expect, and we would rather say so up front. It only reports an image whose file still carries an AI marker, and plenty do not, because the marker was stripped, or the image was screenshotted, or the tool that made it never wrote one. So a quiet day is normal and does not mean the extension is broken.
We did build a second layer that guessed at images with no marker, and we switched it off. Tested against real photographs it called most of them AI-made, and a flag that fires on your own family photos teaches you to ignore every flag. It comes back when it is genuinely better than a coin toss, not before.
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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Parents of kids who install anything
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