An app on whatever 8-to-14-year-old already carries — most kids have a phone these days, some still wear an Apple Watch SE, some have both. Paired to a quiet parent dashboard. No social feed, no Instagram, no chat — just 'left school', 'arrived at Grandma's', 'at home', and one big SOS button if they need it.
Cellular Apple Watch SE or Galaxy Watch — independent of a phone. We send the install QR code; parent scans, watch pairs, done.
Home, school, grandparents, the local park. You get a calm push notification when they enter or exit each — not a constant location stream.
The whole point: you check the app maybe once a day, see 'all expected', and put your phone down. The watch handles the rest.
No clever onboarding to dig through, no settings menu to find. Open the app, see one big button. Tap it. Get on with the school day. The whole UI is built around “your hands are on the task, not the phone”.
Big, obvious, no menu. We tested it with actual 8-year-olds — they can press it without practice.
You get a push when they reach school, not 600 location pings during the day. Less anxious for you, more privacy for them.
They can call you (or you can call them) from the watch. Three approved numbers max — no random callers, no unknown numbers.
Watch goes silent during school hours. Genuine SOS still rings, daily notifications are queued.
One £9.99 covers two parents (and grandparents, and the kid's emergency contacts) — not per-adult.
Children get the same data-protection rights as adults under UK GDPR. We never share child data outside the family group — full stop.
Most 11+ kids carry a phone — that's the primary install. Apple Watch SE or Galaxy Watch for younger kids (or as an addition for older ones) gives a wrist-level SOS button + always-worn fall detect. Parent uses any iPhone or Android for the dashboard.
Children get the same data-protection rights as adults under UK GDPR. We never share child data outside the family group, ever. Move from watch-only to phone-and-watch (or back) anytime as your child grows up — same subscription either way.
Every Vygard Personal app is designed so the vast majority of alerts cost us nothing to send. SMS and WhatsApp — which we'd otherwise burn at 3-5p per message — kick in only as an emergency fallback. That's why the apps stay at £4.99/mo.
If your contact has any Vygard app installed, they get a push notification with the alert + a tap-to-call button. Instant, no SMS cost.
If they don't have a Vygard app, your phone's own Messages app opens with a pre-filled SOS text + a one-tap install link. iMessage and RCS deliver it for free.
If your contact can't be reached any other way — or it's a genuine unconscious SOS where you can't tap — Vygard sends an SMS via Twilio. Counted against your monthly allowance.
Parallel path to SMS for contacts who use WhatsApp as their primary messenger. Same counting, same allowance pot.
Sized for ~5 SOS events per month at 4 messages each. Most users never get close to the cap. If your allowance runs out mid-month, the app falls back to opening your phone's Messages composer instead of blocking the alert — your safety is never gated on a billing limit.
Top-ups are monthly add-ons in your account settings — cancel anytime, no contract.
Per-user SMS cost is the biggest variable expense in any consumer safety app. If we shipped "unlimited SMS" on a £4.99 sub, we'd have to choose between losing money on heavy users or making the cap dishonest. By being explicit upfront — push-first, native handoff, then metered SMS — we keep the sub price low for everyone, and the people who do need more (frequent travellers, large family groups) pay a fair top-up.
Full breakdown in the FAQBy 11 or 12 most kids have a phone. By 14, almost all of them do. Vygard Kids is the safety layer that goes on the device they're already carrying — phone, watch, or both. Instead of fighting the screen-time wars, we make their existing device safer: geofences, parent-side SOS dashboard, three approved numbers for the watch, quiet hours during school. The aim is the safety bit, not the surveillance bit.
Vygard Kids is for parental peace-of-mind on routine routes (school run, walk to the park, visit to grandparents). It is not a substitute for safeguarding training, age-appropriate independence-building, or telling your child what to do if they get lost or scared. If your child is in genuine danger from a known person, please involve professional safeguarding services — not a watch app.
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