The internet's wild.
Your house doesn't have to be.
Protection for the devices on your home network. No hardware, no router settings, nothing to plug in — it's an app. Set it up on a Sunday arvo, forget about it.
- Australian-built
- Australian-hosted (Sydney + Melbourne)
- No credit card
- Cancel anytime
“I got it for Mum after she clicked a scam link for the third time. She doesn’t even know it’s running — which is exactly the point.”
This is the text your dad got
on Tuesday.
Your tax refund of $2,284.50 is ready
Dear taxpayer, your tax return for 2024-25 has been processed and a refund of $2,284.50 is pending. You must verify your bank details within 48 hours.
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Everyone's connected.
Not everyone's protected.
You're not a cybersecurity expert. You're a parent, or a son, or a daughter — and you just want the internet in your house to not be a liability. Grandma clicks a link that looks exactly like her bank. Your kid finds something they shouldn't. The neighbour's smart fridge starts talking to a server in Belarus.
Three steps. Two minutes. Done.
You don't need to configure anything technical. Download. Set up. Forget about it.
Threat blocking that actually works.
Phishing, scam sites, malware — caught at the DNS layer before they ever load.
Per-person rules. Per-device.
Your kid gets a different internet than your nan. Both are protected.
See what got blocked. And why.
Plain-English reports. No security jargon. No anxiety.
“Can't I just use
the free one?”
Often, yes — and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise. Here's what each of them actually does, and the point at which it stops.
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families
Good at: Blocking malware and adult sites at the DNS layer, for nothing, on any network you can change the DNS on. Genuinely fast and genuinely free.
Stops at: One setting for the whole house. No profiles, so your teenager and your nan get the same internet. Nothing tells you what was blocked or why.
Apple Screen Time
Good at: Time limits, app limits and downtime on Apple devices, already on the phone, no extra cost.
Stops at: Apple only — the Android tablet, the smart TV and the console are invisible to it. It manages time, not threats: it won’t stop a phishing site loading.
Google Family Link
Good at: Supervising a child’s Android device and Chrome — app approvals, screen time, location.
Stops at: A child-account tool. You can’t point it at a parent’s house, and it does nothing about scam sites or texts aimed at adults.
The paid ones are closer.
Bark and Qustodio both do parts of this properly, and if you only need one child monitored on one phone, either is a reasonable buy. Aura covers adults as well as kids, but its parental controls and fraud monitoring are United States only, so an Australian household can't actually get them. The other two are built around children — install an app on each device, watch that child. None of the three has anything to say about your dad getting a text about an unpaid toll. Full comparison →
What you get here instead.
- A profile per person, across every device in the house — not one setting for everyone
- Reports in plain English: what got blocked, and why it mattered
- Scam signals tuned for older adults, not just for children
- Set up and manage a parent’s household from your phone, from another city
- Australian-built, Australian-hosted, and support you can ring
Pick a plan.
Cancel by doing literally nothing.
14-day free trial on every plan. No credit card. Real Australian dollars.
$8.29/mo, billed annually
Threat blocking · 1 profile · 5 devices · Australian support
- Cancel anytime
- Annual refunded pro-rata
- Australian-hosted
$33.29/mo, billed annually
Everything in Duo · 10 profiles · 15 devices · screen time · weekly reports
- Cancel anytime
- Annual refunded pro-rata
- Australian-hosted
We caught it.
You're fine.
How a block notification reads on your phone. Calm authority. No alarm. No vendor-speak.
We caught a phishing site pretending to be CommBank. Tap below if you want the details — otherwise, carry on.
View threat detail →
We name what happened, what to do, in one sentence. The taniwha is awake so the household doesn't have to be anxious. We never say “next-gen AI-powered threat protection.”
The five things
everyone asks.
Will it slow my internet down?
No. Manaia only handles the lookup that turns a name like your-bank.com.au into an address — a few milliseconds, from servers in Sydney and Melbourne. Your actual traffic never passes through us, so downloads, streaming and video calls run exactly as fast as they did before.
Can you see what I browse?
We see the domain names your devices look up — manaia.io, not the page you read or anything you typed. We never see the contents of a page, a message or a form. That history is what the reports are built from, it stays in Australia, it is kept for the period your plan lists and then deleted, and it is never sold. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
Does it work when we’re on mobile data?
Yes. The protection lives in the Manaia app on the device, so a phone or tablet stays covered on mobile data, at school, at a friend’s place — anywhere. The optional Home Lite appliance is the part that only covers your home network, because it works at the router.
What if it blocks something I actually need?
You allow it, from the app, and it works straight away. If it was a child’s device, they can ask for it from their phone and you approve or decline with one tap — no need to be in the same room, or the same city. Nothing stays blocked because you couldn’t work out how to unblock it.
How do I cancel?
From your dashboard, in a couple of taps — no phone call, no retention script. Monthly plans stop at the end of the cycle. Annual plans are refunded pro-rata. If you bundled a Home Lite device on instalments, the remaining balance on it falls due when the subscription ends.
Your family's internet,
sorted.
14-day free trial. Full access. No credit card. Cancel by doing literally nothing.
- Cancel anytime
- Annual refunded pro-rata
- Australian-hosted