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Safeinest in Bangladesh: ৳99 a month, Bangla, the helplines
In Bangladesh, Safeinest costs ৳99 a month — the local 99, set in taka rather than converted from pounds — and both apps speak Bangla. About 94 in every 100 phones here run Android, which is the platform where a family-safety app can honestly do the most. Here is the price, what works on the phones children carry, the helplines, and the one thing message safety cannot do yet.
The price in taka: ৳99 a month
The price is the same small numeral everywhere, written in the family's own money. In Bangladesh that is taka, set as taka — never a British price converted at the day's exchange rate.
| Plan | Covers | Each month |
|---|---|---|
| Little Nest | Up to 3 children's devices | ৳99 |
| Family Nest | Up to 7 children's devices | ৳149 |
| Mega Nest | Unlimited children's devices | ৳199 |
The plans differ only in how many of your children's devices they cover, and one parent account holds them all. There is nothing extra to buy: location, safe zones, family calls, the browser and message safety are all included, and no feature is sold per device. Your app store charges you in taka in the way it already charges you, and shows the exact figure on its own screen before anything is taken.
If ৳99 is genuinely beyond your family this month, write to us at hello@safeinest.com and say so. There is no form and no proof to send. We would much rather turn a family's protection on by hand than let a child go without it over a small sum.
The phones children carry here
About 94 phones in every 100 in Bangladesh run Android, and about 6 are iPhones — figures from World Population Review, drawing on StatCounter data collected between October 2024 and November 2025. Bangladesh sits alongside Pakistan as one of the most Android-heavy countries measured.
For a parent that is quietly good news, because Android is the platform where a family-safety app is allowed to do the most. The handset itself is likely to be a Samsung, a Xiaomi or Redmi, a Realme, an Oppo, a Vivo, an Infinix or a Tecno. They are all the same Android underneath and Safeinest Connect runs the same on each. Two settings on these phones decide whether everything feels reliable or flaky, so do both on day one.
- Stop the phone sleeping the app. Budget handsets are strict about battery, and an app that has been put to sleep cannot ring for a family call or start a bedtime on time. The child's app has a "Keep Safeinest awake" step: it opens the battery screen, where you choose All apps, find Safeinest Connect and set "Don't optimise". On a Samsung, also add it under Settings, Battery, Background usage limits, Never sleeping apps.
- Let it make a noise. On a Samsung, open Settings, then Notifications, then App notifications, tap Safeinest Connect and set the style to "Alerts", not "Silent" — Silent hides both the ring and the pause notice. Restart the phone once afterwards and it behaves.
What works on that Android phone
- Message-safety alerts. With your child's agreement, given on a consent screen written in their own language, arriving messages are checked on the phone itself for words about self-harm, bullying and sexual content. You receive the child's name, the kind of danger, how serious it looks, which app it came from and a few words — never the conversation. The message itself never leaves their phone.
- Rules from your phone. Bedtime, school hours, a whole-day screen-time budget, a daily budget for a single app, pausing a category such as games or social media, and Block now when dinner is on the table.
- Where they are. Live location, a 24-hour trail, safe zones around home and school, no-go areas, and an alert when they have not arrived somewhere by the time you set.
- Staying close. Family voice calls that ring on a locked phone, family messages that keep working even while every other app is paused, and an SOS button.
- The rest. A screen-time report with the day's top apps, the Safeinest Browser with SafeSearch forced on, and a removal lock that makes deleting the app a deliberate step you are told about.
The full set-up walk-through lives in our guide to parental controls on an Android phone.
If your child has an iPhone
Six children in a hundred here, roughly. The limits all work through Apple's own Screen Time — bedtime, school hours, daily limits, blocking a category, Block now. Location, safe zones, no-go areas and arrival alerts work. Family calls, messages and SOS work. Picture warnings work through Apple's Communication Safety switch on iOS 17 or newer.
What no app can do on an iPhone is read messages. Apple allows no app access to another app's messages, so an iPhone raises no self-harm or bullying alerts. If another app promises you that, it is not telling you the truth. Nor is there a Safeinest removal lock on an iPhone yet; one is being worked on for the near future, and until then a Screen Time passcode that only you know is what makes rules stick.
The app speaks Bangla
Both apps and this website are translated into Bangla, one of fourteen languages Safeinest speaks. Your child reads their screens in Bangla as well — the pause screen, the consent screens, the family chat — which matters more than it sounds, because a child who can read exactly what an app does is far less likely to feel spied upon. The Bangla site is at safeinest.com/bn.
The honest bit: detection reads English today
Message-safety detection understands English only at the moment. Messages typed in Bangla script, or in Bangla written with English letters, are not covered yet, and we will not let you believe they are. Work on local-language detection has started with Roman Urdu and Hinglish, the two written forms nearest to this, and it is honest to say Bangla will follow rather than to promise a date.
Everything else on this page is unaffected by language. Bedtime, school hours, limits, live location, safe zones, arrival alerts, family calls, SOS and the browser all work exactly the same. Where children message in English, as many do in English-medium schools, detection works today.
The numbers, honestly
There is no dependable Bangladesh-specific figure for how many children meet harm online, so we will not print one. The nearest measured numbers give the shape of it: the World Health Organization's Europe office, studying 44 countries, found one in six 11 to 15-year-olds had been cyberbullied and the share rising; in neighbouring India, McAfee's 2022 study reported 85% of 10 to 18-year-olds had experienced it. Worldwide there are around 1.36 billion children aged 5 to 14, with device ownership between 81% and 91% across income levels, according to figures collated by SellCell and Statista.
Where your family's data lives
Not in Bangladesh. Safeinest is a British company, and family data is kept on servers in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area wherever possible, encrypted, with as little of it stored as we can manage. Our privacy policy lists exactly what is held, for how long, and where it travels.
Helplines in Bangladesh
- Child Helpline: 1098
- Emergency: 999
Put both in your own phone this evening. An app can be a smoke alarm; it is never the fire brigade.
Get both apps
The parent app goes on your phone: Google Play or the App Store. Safeinest Connect goes on your child's device: Google Play or the App Store. Pairing them takes one scan of a code. Every feature, platform by platform, is set out on the features page, and the picture next door is much the same — see our India page.
Common questions
Can I pay in taka?
Yes, and the price is set in taka rather than converted from pounds. Little Nest is ৳99 a month for up to three children's devices, Family Nest ৳149 for up to seven, and Mega Nest ৳199 for any number at all. Your app store bills you in taka the way it already does, showing the exact figure first.
Does it work without Google Family Link?
Yes. Safeinest joins your phone to your child's with a pairing code, and asks for no supervised Google account, no family group and no Family Link setup. The child's phone still needs some Google account signed in to install anything from the Play Store, but an ordinary account is enough for that.
Does it work on an Infinix, Tecno or Redmi phone?
Yes. Those are ordinary Android phones and Safeinest Connect behaves the same on each of them. The one job worth doing on a budget handset is the battery step inside the child's app, which sets Safeinest Connect to Don't optimise. Without it the phone may sleep the app, and a sleeping app rings late or not at all.
Which Android version do I need?
Google Play only offers an app to a phone that can actually run it, so if it installs, it works. In practice a handset on roughly Android 10 or newer runs the whole product, message safety included. Phones sold without the Google Play Store cannot install it whatever their version. On iPhone, the child app needs iOS 16 or newer.
Is the app in Bangla?
Yes. Both apps and the website are translated into Bangla, and the Bangla site is at safeinest.com/bn. Your child sees Bangla on their own screens too, including the pause screen and every consent screen. Thirteen other languages are available besides, among them English, Hindi, Urdu and Arabic.
Will it read messages written in Bangla?
Not yet, and we would rather say so than sell you something that is not there. Message-safety detection understands English only today. Local-language detection is being built, starting with Roman Urdu and Hinglish. Every other feature — limits, bedtime, location, safe zones, calls, SOS and the browser — is completely unaffected by which language your family uses.
Is our data kept in Bangladesh?
No. Safeinest is a British company, and family data sits in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area wherever possible, encrypted, and kept deliberately thin: an age rather than a date of birth, a nickname rather than a legal name, and no recordings of calls. Our privacy policy sets out exactly where things go.
What if my child uses an iPhone?
Limits, location, safe zones, arrival alerts, family calls, messages and SOS all work. Message safety does not, because Apple gives no app access to another app's messages — that is a rule of the platform, not a gap in the app. Set an iOS Screen Time passcode that only you know, since on an iPhone the passcode is what makes rules stick.
Will my child know the app is there?
Yes, deliberately. Nothing runs in secret: your child agrees to message safety on a consent screen in their own language, sees a calm pause screen when apps are resting, and can look at what is switched on at any time. Safeinest is built to be a family agreement rather than a piece of spyware, and that is a design choice, not a limitation.
Ready to set it up?
New here? The step-by-step setup guide walks you through both installs → — every step on Android, Chromebook and iPhone, honest limits included.