Wynkie is for young people from twelve. Below is what you as a parent can set, what you will never see, and where our limit lies. The uncomfortable part too, because that is the part that helps.
Twelve is the floor. Anyone younger sees one screen and nothing is kept.
Up to fifteen a parent belongs to the account. Until you confirm, the account exists but can send nothing.
You manage settings: who may make contact, whether channels and Discover are open, whether new buddies need your approval. You get an email when there is something to decide.
No messages. No photos. No conversations. No location. There is no screen anywhere that does this, and it was not forgotten: it is built so that it cannot happen. The key of a parent session and the key of a user session have nothing to do with each other.
That is a choice and we understand it does not please everyone. Agreeing that your child may have an account is not the same as a right to their conversations. A child who knows they are being read tells the things that matter somewhere else.
The settings move to your child. You are both asked whether you want to continue together. Continuing takes two yeses, stopping takes one no, and your child does not have to explain why.
That way nobody can extend supervision on their own, and a young person does not have to negotiate their way out of it.
Everything anyone sends or posts is checked automatically: messages, photos, videos, voice messages, profile texts, names of channels and clubs. What stands out goes into a queue, and a person looks at it before anything happens.
What we act on: offering something in exchange for pictures, threatening to spread them, forwarding intimate pictures of someone else, an older account systematically writing to young accounts, known illegal material, and signs that someone is in danger.
Wynkie is not a reading service. We are not going to pull ordinary arguments, crude jokes or uncomfortable opinions between peers out of conversations. Anyone who wants to see everything will not be satisfied by any app.
Reporting works from any message, profile, channel or story, in two taps. The content is frozen straight away so it cannot disappear before somebody has looked at it.
There is also "worried": if your child is worried about a friend, they can pass that on without it becoming a report against that friend. That person then gets a question about how they are doing and the numbers of real helplines, and never hears who it came from.
The full privacy statement belongs to the app and sits inside it. It is written to be read, not to hide things.