Lantern Watch — Home Network Guardian
Free & open source — forever

Keep your family safe on your own home network.

Lantern Watch is a plug-in guardian for your home internet. Content filtering, parental controls, and screen-time limits — running entirely on your own router. No subscription. No cloud watching your kids. No cost.

100% free for families, churches, camps & missionaries
Runs on your router
No cloud surveillance
No subscription
Fully open source
What it does

Protection that lives in your home

Everything runs locally on a small router you own. Your family's activity never leaves the house.

Content filtering

Blocks adult content, malware, and trackers at the DNS level for every device on the network — no app to install on each phone.

Screen time & schedules

Set bedtimes, focus hours, and daily limits. Pause the internet for any device with one tap when it's time for dinner.

Per-device control

See every device on your network and manage each one individually — kids' tablets, the family TV, guest phones.

Gentle alerts

Optional notifications to a parent's phone when something needs attention — delivered privately, never to a public feed.

Private by design

No accounts, no data harvesting. The only thing that ever leaves your router is an anonymous update check — nothing personal.

Open & auditable

Every line of code is public on GitHub. Anyone can inspect exactly what it does — and improve it. Nothing hidden.