Safelo: Safe Links & Family

Safelo tells you whether a link is dangerous before you open it, and helps parents keep a child's phone safe.

A message arrives with a link. You get about a second to decide. Safelo makes that second count.

HOW IT WORKS

Paste a link, scan a QR code, or share a link to Safelo from any app. You get one clear answer — Safe, Low, Medium, High or Critical — and a plain-English reason for it.

Most checks finish on your device, against a list of known-malicious addresses that ships with the app. Only links that cannot be settled on your device are sent for a cloud lookup against Google Web Risk and around 90 security vendors through VirusTotal.

WHAT YOU GET

• Paste or type any link and check it in seconds
• Share a link to Safelo straight from your messages, your browser or any other app
• Scan QR codes with the camera — posters, menus, parking meters and parcels are a favourite trick
• Check photos and screenshots: Safelo finds QR codes and links inside images, on your phone (Pro)
• Check a file by its fingerprint, without uploading it (Pro)
• Open a cleared link inside Safelo, so you never lose track of the link you just checked
• A scan history, so you can look back at what you checked and what it said
• Every verdict explains itself: what was checked, what it found, and what could not be checked

WHAT IT LOOKS FOR

• Addresses on a list of known phishing and malware sites
• Brand impersonation — paypal-secure-login.xyz is not PayPal, and the address says so
• Throwaway domains, free subdomains and sign-in bait
• Redirects that end somewhere other than where the link claims
• Broken or missing encryption

FAMILY (PRO)

Link a child's phone with a QR code. From your phone you can:
• Turn on web protection: block scam and adult websites on the whole phone, with SafeSearch and YouTube Restricted Mode
• Lock the phone now, or set bedtime and school schedules
• Pause apps and set daily limits
• See the phone's location (only after the child's phone accepts it; kept for 24 hours)
• Protect the settings with a parental PIN
The child's phone always shows that it is supervised.

WHY SAFELO USES A VPN (VpnService)

Web protection on the child's phone uses Android's VpnService. It is used for one thing only: to check website names (DNS lookups) against our list of scam and adult sites, so blocked sites do not open in any app or browser.
• Only DNS lookups go through it. All other traffic leaves the phone normally and never passes through Safelo.
• Safelo cannot see pages, messages, passwords or anything else you do.
• It is not a general VPN: it does not hide your IP address, change your location or encrypt your traffic.
• It is only turned on when a parent switches on web protection for a linked child's phone, and Android asks for permission first.

HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT CANNOT DO

No link checker catches everything, and we would rather say so plainly. A scam page set up hours ago on a normal-looking domain may not be on any list yet. A trusted site that has been broken into still has a perfectly normal address. When Safelo cannot reach a confident answer it says so instead of guessing. Treat "nothing found" as exactly that, never as a guarantee.

PRIVACY

An account is optional. You can check links as a guest; an account (email code or passkey) keeps Pro and your history on all your devices. We do not build a profile of you, and the addresses you check are not stored against your identity.

If you leave the optional "Help improve Safelo" setting on, the app sends anonymous counters: which check produced the answer, what the answer was, and how long it took. The address you checked is never included.

Safelo is a link checker, not a virus scanner. It checks the address, not your files.

Privacy policy: https://safelo.app/privacy