Private Beta in Europe
Your child gets a safe messenger. Everyone else keeps WhatsApp.
You approve every contact, and violent content – from images and videos to offensive messages – is blocked on the phone before your child sees it. We’re connecting Rhyse to WhatsApp so your child’s friends and family can keep messaging from the app they already have.
Free during the beta. €9.99 a month at launch, €14.99 for a family — no ads, no trackers, nothing sold.
What you get
A simple messenger that keeps your child safe.
A messenger their friends aren’t on will not get used – more likely it gets replaced by a secret second phone. So Rhyse has to work the way WhatsApp does, without your child ever having to tell their friends they are not on it.
Your child’s privacy
What your child says is theirs. Who reaches them is yours.
A child who knows every word is read learns to say nothing, or to say it somewhere you cannot see. Privacy is important for your child. We want to acknowledge that.
So the control you get is over who, not what — and your child decides what to bring to you. A request to add someone new, or a message the filter has hidden: your child chooses whether to ask, and you choose whether to allow it. You can remove anyone at any time.
Nobody new gets through without your yes, and nothing reaches you without your child’s ask. Reading their messages would add nothing to that — it would only cost you their trust, and cost Rhyse the one thing that makes it work: a child who keeps using it.
Private to your child
- Messages, photos, voice notes and calls
- Who they talked to, and how much
- No dashboard, no activity log, no transcripts
The filter is the one thing that looks, and it never tells. It runs on your child’s phone, uploads nothing and reports to nobody. It catches what a parent could not catch anyway, without anyone reading a single message.
The problem
Children don’t go looking for violent content or strangers – both come to them.
You gave your child a phone so they could be reached, and WhatsApp because everyone is on it. But WhatsApp is not just text.
Any classmate can forward a video or image from anywhere on the internet straight into it. It is also where strangers make first contact, alongside Instagram, Snapchat and games. And it is where the class chat runs all night: insults, threats and pile-ons that used to stop at the school gate now follow your child home.
Most children never mention any of it, because losing the phone feels worse to them than the thing they saw. The consequences are severe: traumatised children who suffer from sleep disorders, depression and anxiety and other mental health issues.
247 of 247
children have seen violent content.
Every child aged 8–17 interviewed for Ofcom’s 2024 study had encountered it, most of it arriving unasked through feeds, algorithms and strangers. Most first saw it at primary school age. Ofcom, March 2024
1 in 4
children has been asked to meet up by an adult online.
25% of 8- to 17-year-olds in Germany; among children under 14 it is 16% (Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, May 2025). An earlier study from 2021 found that the contacts came through Instagram (31%), WhatsApp (26%) and Snapchat (24%) (same survey, 2021, via klicksafe).
1 in 5
children has been bullied online.
Almost every fifth pupil in Germany has been a victim of cyberbullying (Cyberlife V, 2024). It happens most often on WhatsApp (50%), TikTok (43%) and Instagram (38%) (SINUS-Jugendstudie 2024/25).
Price and privacy
Someone always pays. In free apps, it’s your child.
Every free app for children has to earn somewhere, and there is only one place it comes from: the child. Attention, profiling, data sold onward, a feed built to keep them scrolling. We would rather take your money than your child’s attention.
We plan to charge €9.99 a month for one child, or €14.99 for a family of up to three, and that is the entire business model. No ads, no trackers in the app, no analytics on children, nothing sold or shared. In the app we hold a handle, a contact list, and messages we cannot read.
The beta is free, and we will not start charging without asking you first.
- Messages, voice notes and photos
- Video calls, including to people without the app
- On-device violence filter
- Two guardians, equal rights, never a paid extra
Free during the beta; both prices are planned for launch. Yearly: €99 one child, €149 family — two months free. Cancel whenever, no lock-in. That is less than most families already pay for a music subscription.
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