A private family app. Parents, and the children whose accounts they create, chat, share photos and voice notes, post short-lived stories, make voice calls and play games — only with friends and family inside a circle the parents oversee.

Adults sign in with their own Google account. A child's account is for a child aged 4 to 17, and only a parent can create it, from the parent's own phone; signing in with Google is for adults. Adults can also be friends with other adults.

No. There is no people search, no friend suggestions from the app, no public profile and no public feed. A friendship can only start from a private friend code (or its QR code), from a parent adding one of their own friends, or from a suggestion by a mutual friend — and for a child under 13 it stays closed until the parent approves it. Our server — not only the app — refuses messages, calls and games between people who are not approved friends or family.

No. Glowbee is free today and has no purchases inside the app.

The app follows the phone's language (10 languages, including Arabic and English). A few exceptions: the text inside Blocks World is in Arabic for now, Word Search and Word Builder play in Arabic or English, and the Quran corner is Arabic.

No. A child's account can only be created by a parent, from the parent's own phone.

Right after adding a child, the parent sends themselves a one-time code by e-mail from the app. The child's account does not work until the parent enters that code. One code covers the whole family: a child added later works at once, and the parent receives an e-mail saying a new child account was created under their consent.

With a Login ID (or its QR code) that you give them — children have no e-mail address and no password. One account works on one phone at a time, and you are notified if your child's account signs in on a new phone. You can change your child's Login ID at any time; the old one stops working.

A short safety reminder, once, before anything else: do not share your address, school, phone number or other people's pictures; talk only with the friends your parents approved; tell your parents at once if someone bothers or scares you. It also tells them what their parents see: "Your parents can see your friends, your groups and your call history — but they can't read your messages, except the ones that were reported." It closes only with the "Got it" button. A child who saw the reminder before this sentence was added sees it once more, one time.

A name or nickname, the child's age (4 to 17; you can set the exact birth date later), boy or girl, and the language — all entered by you. We never ask for a child's e-mail address or phone number.

No. Only a parent can delete a child's account.

From your dashboard, for each child: their friends; the group chats they are in (the name and the number of members); their call log (who, when and for how long — never the audio, kept 90 days); their garden log; their current story (which you can delete); the people they blocked; and the reports they filed. You cannot read their messages or open their photos — you see who your child talks to, not what they say.

For each child: voice calls, and who may call; story posting; who your child may send photos and videos to, and which kinds; the games pack; sharing clips from the audio library; the Quran corner (where it is offered); all notifications; and, if you wish, separating boys' and girls' stickers, avatars and pictures. For a teen, you also decide whether they may accept friends on their own. You set allowed hours, can pause the account, choose whether downloads wait for Wi-Fi, and can change your child's name, photo, Login ID and birth date.

Yes. In "Manage child", "Who can my child send photos and videos to?" offers everyone, people you choose, or parents only — and which kinds: photos, a photo with sound or motion, and videos. It applies to chats and stories alike; a group counts only if everyone in it is someone you chose; the parents always receive everything. The camera keeps working, and the profile picture is not affected. It works fully once your child's app is updated.

The account stops at once: your child's app shows a rest screen instead of the app, your child cannot send anything, calls are refused and notifications stop. Messages friends send in the meantime wait until you resume the account (or until the pause you set ends).

You choose the hours of the day when the app may be used. Outside them, your child's app shows the rest screen. Allowed hours are applied on your child's phone.

• A friend request waiting for your approval (an adult's request is marked "adult account").
• Your child has a new friend.
• An adult sent a friend request to your teen.
• Your child filed a report, or a friend of your child's reported your child.
• Your child asks to share clips from their audio library.
• Your child blocked or removed someone and left a group they shared.
• Your child's account signed in on a new phone.

These alerts go to every parent linked to the child — the parent who created the account, and a co-parent if there is one.

No, and that is by design. You see who your child talks to — friends, groups and calls — but the content of their conversations stays between the people in them. If something is wrong, your child can report it, and you are told. The one exception: if your child, or a message your child wrote, is reported and our review finds a rule was broken, you receive an official warning — by e-mail, and in the app's list of your children's reports — that includes what was reported (a report about your child carries up to ten of their latest messages in that chat) — it is your child's own words, and you have the right to see them.

Yes. The safety reminder tells your child to talk only with friends you approved and to tell you at once if anyone bothers them, and it tells them what you can see: "Your parents can see your friends, your groups and your call history — but they can't read your messages, except the ones that were reported." The same sentence stays visible to them on their own profile page ("My page"). We still suggest talking it through with them yourself.

Yes. You can invite one adult from your friends — for example your spouse — as a co-parent: either a full partner for all your children (and each of you then sees the other's children too), or for one child only. The invited person must accept; until then nothing changes.

A co-parent can use the day-to-day controls — pause, allowed hours, calls, stories, games and the other switches — see the child's friends and groups, add a friend for the child, and delete the child's account (the other parent is then told, by notification and e-mail). A co-parent cannot change the child's birth date, cannot touch the consent, and cannot remove the parent who created the child's account.

Either parent. When a child has two parents, the request reaches both, and a yes from either one is enough — each child's request is approved on its own card. Alerts about the child (a new friend, a report by or about the child, a new device signing in, a warning or a suspension) reach both parents in the app; the letters (a report by or about the child, a new device, a warning, a suspension) reach both by e-mail; and both see the child's list of reports (reports filed before this version stay with the parent who created the account). Only the consent itself stays with the parent who created the account.

The parent who created the child's account can remove a co-parent at any time, and the child's Login ID then changes automatically. A full partnership can be ended by either side, and the other side is told.

A child who also has a co-parent is handed to the co-parent and keeps their account. A child who would be left without any parent is deleted with your account — no child is ever left without a parent in the app.

In one of three ways: by entering a friend's private code or scanning its QR code; by you adding one of your own friends to your child; or through an introduction by a mutual friend ("X suggested that you and Y become friends"). There is no search and no suggestion from the app.

It depends on the age you entered:

• Under 13: you decide. If your child taps "Accept", it only asks you.
• 13 to 16: you decide, unless you let your teen accept friends on their own — you still see every new friend and can remove them.
• 17: your teen accepts on their own, unless you switch your approval on; either way you see and can remove every friend.

Only with your child's private code. For a child under your approval, the request never reaches your child — it comes to you, marked "adult account", and your child meets that person only if you approve. If an adult asks a teen who accepts on their own, you are told at once.

A friend of both can suggest that two of their friends become friends. A child can introduce two children and an adult two adults — never a child to an adult. Both sides must say yes (a child under your approval, through you). The suggestion shows the avatar picture only, never the personal photo.

The request simply ends. The person who asked is never told it was refused, and after two refusals in a row they cannot ask the same person again for 7 days.

Their private chat disappears from both phones, and any game they are playing together ends. In groups they share, it is your child who leaves, and your child's own messages there are deleted; the other person stays — leaving is your child's choice, not a punishment for someone else. We then prepare the same group without that person, waiting for your child's one tap. You can also remove any friend from your dashboard.

The friendship ends and their private chat disappears from both phones. In groups they share, the other person leaves and your child stays. Your child is not told that it was a block; if it was, your child cannot add that person again.

In the app: your child's name and picture, whatever your child sends or posts to them, and the animals in your child's garden (for gifts and trades). Their app can also read your child's basic profile record.

They stay in the chat on each person's phone, like any messenger. Our server keeps a copy only until every phone in the chat has received it, then deletes it. With the current version of the app, the few words a reply quotes from an earlier message, and a caption written on a photo, are deleted with it; ones left by an older version stay on our server until the chat or the account is deleted.

They stay in the chat, and everyone in it — the sender too — can play them again. The file is kept on the phones and deleted from our server once everyone has listened.

A photo or video from anyone outside the family can be opened once, then it disappears, and a child cannot save it. It is deleted from our server once everyone has opened it (and in any case within about 90 days of being sent).

A chat whose members are all one family — a parent and child, brothers and sisters, the two parents — keeps its photos and videos on the phone, and copies them to the phone's gallery. A photo with live stickers sent in such a chat also keeps its copy on our server for up to about 90 days after it is viewed.

Not from outside the family. Letting a friend keep your photos is possible only between two adults, and taking that permission back erases what was kept.

On Android, no: Glowbee blocks screenshots and screen recording inside the app, to protect disappearing photos. (For the same reason, a reviewer's screenshots come out black.)

Only the friends your child chooses (all of them, or a hand-picked few), for 1 to 12 hours, chosen when posting. The app shows who viewed or liked a story only to the person who posted it. Replies go privately to the poster. If you limited who your child sends photos and videos to, a photo or video story reaches only the friends you chose (and the parents); with "parents only", your child cannot post photo or video stories. When the time is up, the story disappears for everyone; its photo or video is erased from our server typically within two days of posting, and the current version of the app also erases its own copies on each phone when it next runs. A comment or voice reply is also sent to the poster as an ordinary message in their private chat, where it stays like any chat message.

Yes. When you create a child's account, story posting starts switched off — you can switch it on there or later, and off again at any time; with posting off, your child still sees their friends' stories. You can also delete your child's current story from your dashboard — with the current version of the app it goes at once, with every one of its files.

Voice calls only — there are no video calls. They are off until you turn them on, and you choose who may call: everyone in the circle, parents only, or the friends you pick. A call can be one-to-one or up to 4 people. Calls are never recorded; you see the call log (who, when, how long).

A short "buzz" a friend can send. Your child can block pings from any friend, and you can mute all notifications.

Only people who are all friends with each other (or family). A group holds up to 10 people. Someone can be added only if they are an approved friend of every member — our server checks every pair.

Yes, by a friend — but only if everyone in the group is already your child's friend or family. Your child can leave any group at any time, and you see every group your child is in.

The name of each group and how many are in it — never its messages.

Your child's own messages in that group are deleted with them.

Private lists your child makes on the send screen (where they are called "Streak group") to send one photo to several friends at once. You can see and delete them from your dashboard.

A quiet pause for one friend: until your child unfreezes them, nothing from that friend reaches your child — no messages, stories, pings, calls or games. A call or game already running between them ends. The friend is not told.

It ends the friendship, removes each other's stories, and stops that person from adding your child again. Our server completes it, so it holds even if the app closes a moment after the tap. The blocked person is not told: if they try your child's code again, they only see the usual "friend request sent" message.

Your child leaves those groups and their own messages there are deleted — so the blocked person cannot scroll back and read them. We prepare the same groups without that person, waiting for your child's one tap, and you are told.

Yes. From your dashboard you can remove or block any of your child's friends, and see and undo your child's blocks.

"Report abuse" is in the chat, on each friend, on photos and videos received, on stories, and on calls (during a call and in the call log). "Block permanently" is in the chat and on each friend. When an ad is shown, it has its own "Report this ad" button. There is no separate report button inside games or the audio library — there, your child reports or blocks the friend from the chat or the friends list.

• We are alerted at once, and we review every report, aiming to act within 24 hours.
• Your child's parents are told that your child filed a report — the fact, not the content — so you can talk with your child (both of you, if a co-parent is linked).
• If the reported person is another child who is your child's approved friend, that child's parents are told too.
• The alerts to parents never carry the reported words or pictures. We judge them first: if a rule was broken, the reported child's parent receives an official warning by e-mail that quotes what was reported and attaches the photo or video when it was one (that e-mail stays in their mailbox and in ours); if not, nothing happens.
• We can suspend or close accounts that break the rules. An adult who was reported learns about it only if we act.

Calls are never recorded, so we cannot hear what was said and we do not rule on it. Both children's parents are told, so each family can talk about what happened.

We have zero tolerance. We remove it at once, keep the evidence the law requires, and report it to the authorities and to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

A copy of reported content is kept for our review for up to 90 days. After 90 days nothing in the app points to the stored photo or video any more, and the file itself is erased within about a year. When we refer a report to the authorities, we keep one copy of its evidence, with the report's text, for up to 365 days, then delete it. When we close an account for a serious or repeated violation, we keep a record of it — including the reported words, not the photos or videos — for three years for legal defence, then delete it.

Yes. Photos and videos sent between a child and anyone outside the family are checked on the sender's phone before they go, and offensive words are filtered (Arabic and English lists). These checks run on the phone — nothing is uploaded for scanning. They are automatic and can make mistakes, so they help parents but do not replace them. Voice notes, audio clips and live calls are not checked automatically; there, the protection is that the other person is a friend you approved.

Fifteen, each playable alone or with friends:

• Thinking and strategy: Dots & Boxes, Checkers, Tic-Tac-Toe.
• Memory and attention: Memory, Spot the Missing, Jigsaw pictures.
• Words and numbers: Word Builder (put the letters in order), Word Search (find words in a grid of letters), Math Race, Quiz Time.
• Creativity: Drawing & Coloring (no winner — friends draw together), and Blocks World (3D building).
• Quick play: Snake, Friends Race, Rock Paper Scissors.

Only friends and family — our server checks that every two players in a game are friends or family.

Yes, the whole games pack, per child — and an invitation sent before you switched games off no longer opens for your child. Live voice inside a multiplayer game follows your call switch: if calls are off, there is no live voice. There are no recorded voice messages in games.

From a checked question bank built into the app — nothing is generated on the fly. The questions get easier or harder with the child's age, and in a match with friends the youngest player sets the level.

Two open worlds where children build freely, and short rounds to play with friends: a street race, a treasure hunt, an obstacle course, Chase (catch the cartoon kids running around the town — a catch is a cheer, not a defeat), the Balloon Field (children splash balloons with water — the golden ones are the big prize), the Splash Challenge (one against one rival with water balloons: a splash only wins a point, and the first to ten wins), the Splash Party (friends splash each other with water; each splash takes one of ten hearts, and the last one still dry wins), and Bubble Catch — a timed round where children catch bouncing cartoon slimes with a bubble wand or a bubble blower: each slime is trapped in a bubble, floats away with hearts, and comes back. While building, children hold building tools and the bubble wand. There are no weapons and no fighting, no blood and no wounds. Its text is in Arabic for now.

No. Nothing can be staked, and nothing can be lost by losing a match: staking was switched off on our server on 26 September 2026, and the current version of the app no longer shows the "Prize challenge" option. If an older version still shows it, choosing it puts nothing at stake. In a "match with a gift" (the host chooses it when inviting, and can switch it off), the winner receives a box with a hidden animal for their garden, at fixed odds that are the same for everyone (common 75%, rare 22%, legendary 3%) — nobody pays, puts up or loses anything; a child who withdraws from a started match with a gift plays without gifts for three hours. Nobody gets the box after a tie, a dropped connection, phones that disagree on the result, a player on an older version of the app (unless the other player withdraws), a match of three or more that ends because someone leaves (unless a whole team has left — for example a team's only player — in which case the other team takes the box), or a match with a player who withdrew from a match with a gift less than three hours before — nor in a match that ends less than 30 seconds after it starts (the countdown included), which is why a Tic-Tac-Toe match with a gift is at least three rounds. The box's animal appears in the garden log the parent sees.

A virtual garden of animals and plants that grows as your child plays. Garden items have no money value and are never sold. Friends can give or trade them, and you can see the garden log: the latest of what entered or left your child's garden.

Only videos from the channels you add. Videos that YouTube marks as not made for kids are hidden. Your child cannot search YouTube.

Your child's own sound clips. Sharing a clip with friends works only after you say yes. You can take the permission back: shared clips and clips still on their way are pulled back (a clip a friend has already saved stays on that friend's phone).

The photo and video editor can blur faces or cover them with an emoji, and can swap the background. All of it runs on the phone itself; no face data is stored or sent. Stickers, frames, text and drawing are there too.

A corner for learning and reciting the Quran. Where it is offered, it starts switched on for a new child whose language is Arabic or whose phone has a SIM from an Arab country, and you can switch it on or off. When your child recites, the phone itself checks the recitation — nothing is uploaded for checking. The recording stays inside the app unless your child chooses to send it to you (it travels like a voice note in your family chat) or to save it to the phone's gallery as a video. For children under 7, small pronunciation slips are shown as a gentle note, not a mistake.

It counts the days on which a photo or video taken with the app's camera was sent between two friends. It never goes out or starts over when a day is missed, and it earns nothing.

• Friendships: who approves them (see "Who approves a friendship?").
• The quiz: easier questions for younger children; the hardest levels are for adults only.
• Quran recitation: gentler checking under 7.
• The weather sticker: only for adult accounts — never for anyone under 18.

Everything else that protects children applies to every child account, whatever the age: the checks before sending outside the family, no saving of outside photos, calls off until you turn them on, and all your controls. Only the parent who created the account can change the birth date; a child never can.

Glowbee can reach users in two ways: "The app channel" in the chats tab, and a banner at the top of the "Extras & games" tab — both carry news and tips from our team, and either can come with a notification. We do not put messages from companies in them: an ad can appear only as the separate card marked "Ad" (see "Are there ads?"), which never sends a notification — and that card is why Google Play lists the app as "Contains ads".

Sometimes one card marked "Ad" may appear at the top of the "Extras & games" tab. We place it ourselves: it is the same for every parent (or every child), never chosen from anyone's personal data, sends no notification, has no link out of the app, and carries a "Report this ad" button — a report keeps the ad's identifier, the reporting account and the time for 90 days (or until that account is deleted, if sooner), and tells us whether a child or a parent reported it, not who. Closing the card with ✕ hides it for good: that choice is kept with your account on our server, so the ad stays hidden on any phone you sign in on. Any ad shown to children is suitable for all ages. The app has no ad network, no advertising software and no advertising ID.

Not today. If paid features come later, only a parent will be able to buy — through Google Play or the App Store, behind a parent check. A child is never asked to pay, and garden items are never sold.

Only what the service needs: account data (for a child: name or nickname, birth date, boy or girl, language, and a photo or avatar if one is added — no e-mail and no phone number), the list of approved friends, the call log for parents, a record of the phones an account signs in on, a short family activity record (who created, changed or deleted what, and when — no names or messages; kept one year), and technical crash reports. We keep no copy of your photos, videos and messages: they pass through our servers only as long as needed to deliver them, then they are deleted (the exceptions, such as reported content and profile pictures, are named in section 3 of our privacy policy). We ask for no location permission and no contacts, use no advertising ID, and have no advertising or analytics software. Crash reports go through Firebase Crashlytics, without names, messages or pictures. The full list is in our privacy policy, section 3.

Google Firebase (accounts, database, notifications, crash reports), Cloudflare (temporary media storage), Gmail (our e-mails — a copy of each stays in our mailbox and in the recipient's) and call-connection servers. YouTube videos play in YouTube's own player, and Quran recitations are played from everyayah.com — like any website, both receive the phone's internet address. For adults' weather sticker only: ipwho.is (approximate city) and Open-Meteo (weather). We do not sell or rent anyone's data.

No, and we say so plainly. Everything is encrypted on its way (TLS), and call audio travels encrypted between the phones — a relay server, when one is needed, cannot open it. Messages and pictures are encrypted on the way but not end-to-end encrypted.

In the app: Profile → Settings → Delete my account (this deletes your children's accounts too, unless a co-parent takes them over). A single child: Profile → Dashboard — manage kids → the child → "Delete the child's account". Or write to glowbeeco@gmail.com. A few records stay after deletion, as our privacy policy lists — for example the record of your consent, records of reports, the family activity record (kept one year) and e-mails already sent.

We designed Glowbee with children's privacy laws in mind — COPPA in the United States and the GDPR in Europe — and with Google Play's Families policy and Apple's App Review Guidelines. In practice:

• A parent creates every child account and confirms consent before it works.
• A closed circle: no search, no public profiles, approvals by age, and server checks on every contact.
• A safety reminder before any sharing.
• Parent controls over the child's circle and the main social features — friends, calls, stories, audio sharing and games — and a pause that stops everything at once.
• Report and block, reviewed by people, with a published child-safety contact.
• No location permission, no advertising ID, no targeted ads, no advertising or analytics software.
• Account deletion inside the app and on the web.

We do not claim any certification.

Write to glowbeeco@gmail.com, or use "Contact us" in the app. Our child-safety officer is Yousef Alhelfy.