Canopy Shield
September 18, 2025
More About Canopy Shield
Over 100,000 families already trust our technology to keep pornography out of their digital experience.
Canopy protects families from online pornography by stopping exposure before it happens. Whenever your child surfs the web or uses their favorite apps, Canopy’s advanced artificial intelligence system works seamlessly in the background to inspect the images, videos, and websites they encounter. When it detects pornography, Canopy intercepts and removes it before your child ever sees it. And that’s only the beginning.
Here’s how Canopy can help you protect your family:
✓ Real-time Smart Filter
Harness the power of artificial intelligence to seamlessly remove pornographic content from websites and apps in milliseconds, giving your child a healthy, positive digital experience. Even better, our AI doesn’t block safe content – get the good without the bad!
✓ Sexting Prevention
Monitors the camera on your child’s device, prevents them from sharing inappropriate photos, and notifies you immediately if a risky photo is detected
✓ Removal Alerts
Receive quick, helpful notifications if your child tries to remove or disable Canopy
✓ Website Management
Create a customized list of blocked or allowed websites to personalize your child’s online experience
✓ Screen Time Management
Set DownTime for the protected device to limit internet use at specific times. .
✓ Location Awareness
Keep up with your child no matter where life takes them using a detailed real-time GPS map
✓ App Management
Encourage your child to spend time wisely by blocking distracting apps and games
✓ Easy Monitoring
Receive convenient notifications about your child’s online activity and adjust their Canopy settings from your personal device using the main Canopy app or Canopy web dashboard
Canopy works with Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
Give us a call! Our friendly customer support team is available to answer your questions at +1 (888) 820-1918 every day from 12 pm to 8 pm CT.
Permissions:
• This app uses Accessibility services to build an excellent device experience that helps users with behavioral disabilities set appropriate levels of access and monitoring of screen time, web content and apps, in order to limit their risks and enjoy life normally.
Be assured that the monitoring is private and no 3rd parties will be aware of it.
• Draw Over Other Apps: This app uses this permission to draw block screens on top of apps you choose to block.
• Usage Access: This app uses this permission to detect which application is opened so we have a suit filtration in it.
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission (BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN) in order to allow parents to enable uninstall protection and prevent their children from uninstalling the app without their knowledge and consent.
Please note that this is an optional functionality as per user requirement. WE DO NOT ENABLE THIS FEATURE BY DEFAULT.
You will always be able to uninstall the application: on the app's home page - click on "Uninstall application", submit your password (if required) - and the application will be removed.
• When a child uses our app, VPNservice will be used so that relevant content the child tries to access will first securely pass through the filters in our remote servers. We can then determine whether or not the content is inappropriate and should be blocked.
Latest Version
41.79
September 18, 2025
Canopy-app
Internet
Android
28,176
Free
com.canopy.vpn.filter
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User Reviews
Marcus Cameron
5 months ago
Tried to use this to monitor all the devices in our home. It locked up all phones, I couldn't even get into my daily work apps. Seems like a great idea, but in the end it doesn't work. Will be going back to Ever Accountable ASAP for our family monitoring.
Jamie Volle
5 months ago
slows down phones so all texting is delayed. it will be days or hours sometimes before a message pops through. Also can't access Google hardly. Canopy is using a very subpar VPN that is super super slow. I understand why it has 2.4stars now. We will be canceling and finding a more reliable service. I can't stand paying for something that is actually making our lives more difficult. This could also cost us our to jobs as texting is a man source of communication when we are on job sites.
Travis Wood
4 months ago
Bad, my phone is bricked for eternity. Having an always on vpn trashes your phone. Avoid this. They say the app doesn't impact your internet connection, battery, or performance, that is wrong. So much wrong with this horrible app. UPDATE: App freaks out whenever I connect or disconnect from a wifi network.
marietta slabach
4 months ago
Honestly, lately it's been really annoying to use it. We are using it for my son's phone and he can still control it on his end. What's up with that?
Gene Hu
3 months ago
the app works to block things yes. however, it causes the loading of other apps and things you dont need or want to block to be slow. example: quite often it will slow down the opening of financial apps that I use. this is highly annoying (I know Canopy is the cause because when I turn it off the apps work at normals speed). it also for some reason kept wanting to install an app for me when I didnt want it. lastly the downtime settings feature doesn't work well - too slow to initiate changes
Cliff Walters
4 months ago
Slows my phone down a lot. It does work though and has been helpful. I just wish it was not so cripplingly to my Samsung A54.
James Gifford
1 month ago
Can not remove app , as it holds your phone hostage. Do not use!!!!
Joseph Robb
2 months ago
Don't use this. It pretty much bricks your phone from doing anything that requires an internet connection.
Jennifer's cats and more
1 month ago
Do not download if you plan to delete it. It cannot be uninstalled. Worst app ever.
Eric Medlen
3 months ago
While it can take a lot of trial and error to fix issues, most of my siblings wouldn't be able to use the internet safely without it! Far better than non VPN services we've tried in the past. Did you know that it's Netspark but geared more for Americans? It's great.
Justyn Hostetler
3 months ago
This app is sooo glitchy. The internal abilities it used to block 'suspicious activity' are inconsistent, buggy, and behave like malware. The app also blocks content that is not explicit*. I can appreciate the idea and the unique 'Ask for permission' functionality, but this app's methodology is very lacking. *Edit: I apparently forgot to mention that this app's filters block LGBTQ content; not all LGBTQ content is inappropriate. These filters are blatantly homophobic and transphobic.
Dominic
3 months ago
Great parenting control app, but as a guarded individual, I find it increasingly difficult to download and browse even the simplest web pages, which take an eternity to load. Canopy greatly reduces device network speed.
Vesper (Dragon of a feather)
3 months ago
I personally think that it does a good job at what it's supposed to do. Negative reviews on this app are likely from teens whose parents installed it on their phone to help with a certain addiction. If it gets irritating, look through the settings or ask the person who has the parental app, and you can find a way around it. Canopy is not as invasive as people say. Trust me.
Jesse Brandt
4 months ago
It does block bad sites from being accessed. It does come at the cost of making a smartphone dumb and annoying. It keeps trying to add apps that are not desired to the home screen. The filter blocks many sites that don't make any sense. Lastly it makes it nearly impossible to diagnose issues on that phone without removing the software.
Anthony Vanstory
3 months ago
I can't even hardly leave the review without having stuff popping up and clicking me off the screen to a screen that says displays over apps. even when I'm trying to make a call I cant. I want this out of my phone but it won't let me. it's saying can't delete it now without locking my whole device
Give All For Jesus
3 weeks ago
Great for blocking bad content and for accoubtability, but also blocks a lot of things that aren't bad
Ice Fox One
3 months ago
it keeps changing my settings around, and it's constantly on, sucking my already terrible battery life, my phone is constantly hot now, is this app mining bitcoin or something? if you're unfortunate enough to be stuck with this app by your parents, you can get around it by turning on maximum battery saving mode, and only enabling certain apps, like youtube, or discord.
Ameer Faizal
2 weeks ago
It had been good to use this app for some time, till they started providing a svc to unfilter any app you want, including those with sexually explicit content,I when this is a company which provides anti-porn svs.
M H
2 months ago
This app goes on the protected "kid" device, and is controlled by a seperate "parent" control app, typically installed on a seperate device. This was 1 star bc the AI partial nudity filter (you know, the selling point of the service) absolutely wrecked phone performance. However a more recent update has added granularity that hugely improves this feature so it's usable! 3 stars right now bc they don't have an option to add a password lock the control app so kids can easily get around it
michael parkin
2 months ago
The app is a mixed bag of beans for sure; I haven't been able to access my Gmail or other wifi based apps correctly since connecting this device... I think it's a small price to pay-- I'm spending way less time on my phone as a result of the restrictions we've put on. It can be kind of like having an app that turns your phone into a flip phone, while still having limited smart phone functions (maps, books, etc) which is why I still enjoy having it on my devices.
