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Safeinest in India: ₹99 a month, Hindi, and the helplines
In India, Safeinest costs ₹99 a month — the local 99, set in rupees rather than converted — and both apps speak Hindi. About 96 in every 100 phones here run Android, the platform on which a parental app can honestly do the most. Here is the price, what works on the phones children really carry, the helplines to keep, and the one thing message safety cannot do yet.
The price in rupees: ₹99 a month
Safeinest is sold as the same small numeral in every country, in that country's own money. In India it is rupees, set as rupees — not a British price pushed through an 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 |
You are counting devices, not children — a child with a phone and a tablet uses two. One parent account holds the lot. Nothing is charged on top: location, family calls, the browser and message safety are all inside the plan, and there is no separate per-device fee. The store you already buy apps from takes the payment in rupees and shows you the exact figure before anything is charged.
If ₹99 is more than your family can spare this month, write to us at hello@safeinest.com and say so plainly. We would far rather switch a family on by hand than have a child go unprotected over a small sum.
Almost every child here carries an Android
India is the most Android-heavy country in the world by this measure: about 96 phones in every 100 run Android, and about 4 are iPhones. That comes from World Population Review, using StatCounter data gathered between October 2024 and November 2025.
It is good news for a worried parent, because Android is the platform that allows a parental app to do the most. In most homes the handset will be a Samsung, a Xiaomi or Redmi, a Realme, a Vivo, an Oppo, or an Infinix or Tecno. Underneath, they are the same Android, and Safeinest Connect works the same on all of them. Two of their habits catch families out, so deal with both on the first day.
- The phone puts apps to sleep. Battery savers are aggressive on budget handsets, and a sleeping app cannot ring for a family call or start a bedtime on time. The child's app has a "Keep Safeinest awake" step that opens the right screen: choose All apps, find Safeinest Connect, set it to "Don't optimise". On a Samsung, also add it under Settings, Battery, Background usage limits, Never sleeping apps.
- Notifications set to Silent. On a Samsung, open Settings, then Notifications, then App notifications, tap Safeinest Connect and choose "Alerts" instead of "Silent", then restart the phone once. Silent quietly hides the ring and the pause notice, and it is the usual reason a parent thinks nothing is working.
What you get on that Android phone
- Message-safety alerts. With your child's agreement, given on a consent screen in their own language, arriving messages are checked on the phone itself for words about self-harm, bullying and sexual content. You are sent the child's name, the kind of danger, how serious it looks, the app it arrived in and a few words of it — never the conversation, and the message itself never leaves the phone.
- Limits that hold. A bedtime window, school hours, a daily screen-time budget, a budget for one app on its own, pausing a whole category such as games or social media, and Block now for homework or dinner.
- Where they are. Live location, a 24-hour trail, safe zones around home, school and a grandparent's house, no-go areas, and an alert if they have not arrived by the time you set.
- Staying close. Family voice calls that ring on a locked phone, family messages that keep working while everything else is paused, and an SOS button that reaches every parent phone at once.
- And 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 hear about.
The full walk-through is in our guide to parental controls on an Android phone.
If your child has an iPhone
Roughly 4 children in 100 here will, and the honest list is shorter. Bedtime, school hours, daily limits, category blocks and Block now all work, through Apple's own Screen Time. Live location, safe zones, no-go areas and arrival alerts work. Family calls, messages and SOS work. Picture warnings work through Apple's own Communication Safety switch on iOS 17 or newer.
What no app can do on an iPhone is read messages. Apple gives no app access to another app's messages, so an iPhone raises no self-harm or bullying alerts — not from Safeinest, not from anyone. There is no Safeinest removal lock on an iPhone yet either, though one is being worked on for the near future; today it is a Screen Time passcode that only you know which makes the rules stick.
The app speaks Hindi
Both apps and this website are translated into Hindi, alongside thirteen other languages. Your child reads their own screens in Hindi too — the pause screen, the consent screens, the family chat — and that matters, because a child who can read exactly what an app is doing is much less likely to feel watched in secret. The Hindi site is at safeinest.com/hi.
The honest bit: detection reads English today
Message-safety detection understands English only for now. A great many children here type Hinglish — Hindi words written in English letters, mixed with English — and that is not covered yet. It is the next thing being built, precisely because of pages like this one, but it is not there today and we will not let a parent believe it is.
Nothing else is affected. Limits, bedtime, school hours, location, safe zones, arrival alerts, calls, SOS and the browser all behave the same whatever language your family uses. In English-medium schools, where children message each other in English, detection works as described today.
The numbers
India has better data on this than most countries, and it is sobering. McAfee's 2022 research, reported by Business Standard, found 85% of Indian children aged 10 to 18 had experienced cyberbullying — the highest of the ten countries studied and about double the global average, with 30% reporting sexual harassment and 28% threats of physical harm.
Access is not only an urban story either: the ASER survey, reported by ThePrint, found about one in three rural 14 to 16-year-olds owns a phone, and nine in ten have one at home. The phone is already in the house. The question is only what happens on it.
Where your family's data lives
Not in India. Safeinest is a British company, and family data sits on servers in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area wherever possible, encrypted, and kept deliberately thin — an age rather than a birth date, a nickname rather than a legal name. Our privacy policy explains what is stored and where each part of it goes.
Helplines in India
- CHILDLINE: 1098
- Emergency: 112
Save both in your own phone tonight. An app is a smoke alarm; these numbers are 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 is one scan of a code and takes a minute. Every feature, platform by platform, is listed on the features page — and if your family is in the Gulf, our United Arab Emirates page covers the same ground for families there.
Common questions
Can I pay in Indian rupees?
Yes, and the price is set in rupees 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. Your app store bills you in rupees in the way it already does, showing the exact figure before anything is taken.
Which plan do I need for two children?
Little Nest, at ₹99 a month, covers up to three children's devices, so two children with one phone each fit comfortably inside it. Count devices rather than children: a child with both a phone and a tablet uses two of the three. If you later go past three devices, Family Nest at ₹149 covers up to seven.
Does Safeinest work without Google Family Link?
Yes. Safeinest links your phone to your child's with a pairing code and needs no supervised Google account, no family group and no Family Link at all. The child's phone still needs some Google account signed in simply to install apps from the Play Store, but an ordinary one will do. Some families happily run both.
Does it work on a Redmi, Realme, Vivo or Oppo phone?
Yes. All of them run Android, and Safeinest Connect behaves the same on each. The one job worth doing on any budget handset is the battery step in the child's app: set Safeinest Connect to Don't optimise so the phone stops putting it to sleep. A sleeping app cannot ring or apply a bedtime punctually.
Which Android version does it need?
The Play Store only offers an app to a phone able to run it, so if it installs, it works. In practice anything on roughly Android 10 or newer runs the whole product, message safety included. A handset sold without the Google Play Store cannot install it at all. On iPhones, Safeinest Connect needs iOS 16 or newer.
Is the app available in Hindi?
Yes. Both apps and this website are translated into Hindi, and the Hindi site is at safeinest.com/hi. Your child sees Hindi on their own screens too, including the pause screen and the consent screens. Twelve further languages are available besides Hindi and English, among them Bangla, Urdu and Arabic.
Does message safety understand Hindi or Hinglish?
Not yet. Detection reads English only today, so Hinglish and Devanagari Hindi are not covered, and we will not claim otherwise. Hinglish is the next language being built. Meanwhile every other part of the app — bedtime, limits, location, safe zones, arrival alerts, calls and the browser — works the same in any language.
Where is my child's data stored?
Not in India. Safeinest is a British company and family data is kept in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area wherever possible, encrypted, and deliberately sparse: your child's age rather than a date of birth, a nickname rather than a legal name, no call recordings at all. Our privacy policy explains where each thing goes.
Can my child turn it off or delete it?
On Android you can switch on the removal lock, and after that uninstalling means first turning the lock off in the phone's settings — a visible step you are told about immediately. No honest app says deletion can be made impossible. What it can promise is that the phone never falls quiet without you being told.
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.