Profiles by age
One card per person, with their devices. Children become teenagers at 15 and adults at 18, automatically, and the protections follow.
Parental control
Parental control for home Wi-Fi: free, every device, no app
Warda filters the names asked by every device of the home — phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, smart TV — from one box plugged into your router. Nothing to install on the children's devices: the rules follow the age of each person, and the parental control is in the free plan.
What Warda does
Parental controls without an app: one profile per person
Safe search and categories
Safe search forced on the main search engines and on YouTube; adult content, gambling and social networks blocked for a profile; named services blocked for a profile, a person or a single device.
Adults stay free
Advertising and tracking are blocked for everyone, but adults are never watched: their detailed reports need their own agreement.
Three steps
Parental control at the router: how it works
Every site, app or game starts by asking for a name (DNS). Warda answers these requests for the whole network: a name blocked for the profile of a child does not open, on any of their devices.
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Install Warda on a small box at home: a Raspberry Pi, a machine that runs Docker or a Debian server.
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Create a card for each person and give them their devices: the profile follows their age.
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Switch on the protections you want for each profile: advertising, trackers, malware and phishing are already blocked by the built-in list.
For parents
Free parental controls for Wi-Fi: what parents get
Profiles, categories and safe search are in the free plan. The subscription adds the hours of Internet, the time a day and the alerts.
- One card per person, profiles by age, safe search on the main search engines and on YouTube.
- Sensitive categories (adult content, gambling, violence…) blocked by profile; named services (video platforms, games, social networks) blocked by profile, person or device.
- A pause for one device or for the whole house, without letting through what stays blocked for the others.
- A device shared by several people follows the most protective profile of those who use it.
- With the subscription: hours of Internet for each child by quarter of an hour, school holidays included, time a day, and a child can ask for 15, 30 or 60 more minutes, granted in one click.
- With the subscription: alerts when a child tries to go around the filter (VPN, proxy, encrypted DNS) and on sensitive sites; with the protection outside the home, an alert when a child’s phone switches to mobile data at home, and when another device probably uses its shared connection.
- With the subscription: detailed reports and a summary of the week, with the time spent by day, site and device.
Need by need
Block adult sites on Wi-Fi, on every device
Free
Adult content, gambling and hate sites are blocked for children and teenagers from the start, violence and drugs too for children. No setting to look for in each browser, and no need to block porn on the router yourself: the box does it for the whole network.
Safe search and YouTube Restricted Mode forced on the network
Free
SafeSearch is forced on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yandex, and YouTube's restricted mode is on, for every profile by default; an administrator can turn them off for a profile. Nothing to set on each account.
Block TikTok and social networks on Wi-Fi
Free
TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, X and the other named services are blocked in one click, for the whole network, a profile, a person or a single device; the social networks category closes them all for a profile.
Limit screen time: hours of Internet, cut at night
Subscription
Each child gets hours of Internet by quarter of an hour: the Internet cut at night and during homework, wider hours in the school holidays, a time a day for games, videos and social networks; a child can ask for 15, 30 or 60 more minutes, granted in one click.
Parental control on all devices, smart TV and consoles included
Free
Game consoles, smart TVs, tablets, computers and phones on the home Wi-Fi all ask the network for names: they all go through Warda, even those where no app can be installed. A device shared by several people follows the most protective profile of those who use it.
When a child bypasses parental controls
Free
The known VPN, proxy and encrypted DNS services are blocked for children and teenagers in the free plan; the subscription tells the parents. The shared connection of a phone is harder to close: what Warda sees, and what it does not.
When a child bypasses parental controls: VPN, proxy, hotspot
Where a DNS filter stops
A filter at the DNS level sees the names asked, not the pages. Here is what it does not do.
- It blocks or allows a whole site or service, never one page or one video of it.
- It reads no message and no content of an app: nothing is decrypted.
- It protects the devices that use the network of the home: on mobile data or another Wi-Fi, a phone no longer goes through the box, unless it is protected outside the home (subscription, beta): its queries then reach your box through the online service of Warda.
- A child can try to go around it; Warda tells the parents (subscription), but no filter replaces talking about it.
Questions
Does anything have to be installed on the children's devices?
No. Warda runs on a box of the home and answers the DNS requests of every device of the network: phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, television. Your router hands its address to the network.
Is the parental control free?
Profiles by age, safe search, categories, named services and the pause are in the free plan. The hours of Internet, the time a day, the detection of bypasses and the detailed reports come with the subscription: 2 € a month or 20 € a year, offered to every tester until subscriptions open.
Can a child go around a DNS filter?
Some try, with a VPN, a proxy, another DNS server or the hotspot of a phone. Warda blocks the known VPN, proxy and encrypted DNS services for children and teenagers, in the free plan; with the subscription, it alerts the parents, a phone protected outside the home stays filtered on mobile data, and Warda says when another device probably uses its shared connection — a likelihood, not a certainty.
Are adults watched too?
No. Advertising and tracking are blocked for them as for everyone, but their detailed reports need their own agreement; without it, they count in the totals and the names they visit stay private.
What does Warda run on?
A Raspberry Pi 4 or later, a machine that runs Docker (amd64 or arm64), or a Debian or Ubuntu server.
Try it at home
The parental control is in the free plan of Warda; the subscription is offered to every tester until subscriptions open.