Joey Family

04/10/2026

“It was just a joke.” But how did it feel to your child?

A message doesn’t always tell the whole story. Joey helps you see the context, so you can be there when your child needs you.

👉 See Joey Family in action www.joeyfamily.com

01/10/2026

You’ve set up your child’s iPhone. What might you have missed?

Joey’s free Family Security Challenge helps you take stock—not just of phone settings, but the family rules and conversations that go alongside them.

Answer 15 practical questions and get a safety score, along with guidance on what looks good and what needs attention next.

Start here:
www.joeyfamily.com/go/challenge

Take Joey's First Phone Safety Check: answer 15 quick questions and find the most important gaps in your child's iPhone setup.

17/09/2026

Three parental monitoring apps can sound very similar until you try to use them on an iPhone.

We spent months testing BrightCanary, Bark and Joey Family in our own family, looking at reliability, alert quality, context, privacy and how much day-to-day work each one creates.

The short version:

• BrightCanary gives parents faster, broader visibility—but requires a bigger privacy trade-off.
• Bark has a broad parental-controls ecosystem, but its iPhone monitoring was unreliable in our testing.
• Joey gave us the most useful balance of reliable safety signals, conversation context and privacy.

There isn’t one right answer for every family. But there are real differences worth understanding before you choose.

Read the full hands-on comparison:

https://www.joeyfamily.com/articles/34/brightcanary-vs-bark-vs-joey-best-parental-monitoring-app-2026?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=joey_facebook_distribution_sep_2026&utm_content=03_article34_comparison_results_v1

15/09/2026

How confident are you about your child’s iPhone safety setup?

Joey’s Family Security Challenge takes you through 15 practical questions about family rules, app downloads, unknown senders, group chats and what your child should do if something goes wrong online.

At the end, you’ll see a safety score showing what’s already strong and what may need attention next.

Take the Family Security Challenge:

https://www.joeyfamily.com/first-phone-safety-check?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=joey_facebook_distribution_sep_2026&utm_content=02_family_challenge_home_cta

14/09/2026

Can parental monitoring protect children without damaging their privacy and trust?

MIT Technology Review recently investigated parental monitoring software, including Joey Family, and spoke with parents, kids and adults who had been monitored when they were younger.

The findings raise an uncomfortable but important question for parents: can the tools we use to protect our kids also damage privacy and trust?

Joey Family co-founder Grant Callahan responds to the investigation and explains why the better answer lies between monitoring everything and doing nothing.

Read what parents should take from the investigation:

https://www.joeyfamily.com/articles/40/joey-family-mit-technology-review-parental-monitoring?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=joey_facebook_distribution_sep_2026&utm_content=01_article40_editorial

09/09/2026

Our most-requested feature is here. 🍎

Your child has an iPhone. You have a Mac. Now you can use Joey Family.

Until now, getting started with Joey meant having access to a Windows computer. For families with Macs at home, that was a real hurdle.

You asked us to change that. We have.

Introducing Joey Desktop for Mac, connecting your child’s iPhone to Joey’s Smart Alerts, contact insights and How’s My Child? reports.

See the Mac app and how to get started:
https://www.joeyfamily.com/articles/39/joey-desktop-for-mac-is-here?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=joey_desktop_mac_launch&utm_content=01_launch_feed

14/08/2026

Joey Family App is coming to Apple iOS

Much awaited experience is coming soon, stay tuned!

14/08/2026

Joey Family App is coming to Apple iOS

Much awaited experience is coming soon, stay tuned!

14/08/2026

Joey Family App is coming to Apple iOS

Much awaited experience is coming soon, stay tuned!

10/08/2026

Meet the Founders 👋

We started Joey because we saw how hard it can be for parents to know what’s happening in their kid's online world, and wanted to build something that could actually help.

Here’s our story. ❤️