Hey Parents
Foxie is a friendly AI fox that lives in your browser. This page is for the grown-ups: what it does, what it doesn't do, and the controls you have.
Answers questions, explains things, helps with homework, plays word games, and reacts to what you're reading.
Uses Google Gemini under the hood. You can use a free hosted version or plug in your own Gemini API key.
No social features. No friend lists. No image uploads from the child. No web browsing on their behalf.
No ads. No profile-building. No selling of data — there's no data to sell.
For adults and older teens. Default Google safety. All personalities and the page-aware feature available.
Stricter Google safety filters. Warmer, less edgy tone. Page-aware mode still available.
Maximum Google safety. Locked to the Companion personality. Page-aware reading is turned off.
Switch modes inside Foxie's settings. If you set a parent PIN, switching modes will require it.
We don't roll our own safety filter. Google already maintains four category filters inside Gemini — harassment, hate speech, sexually explicit, and dangerous content — with four thresholds each (Block none → Block most). Foxie surfaces those exact controls in the Settings panel so you don't have to leave the app to set them.
Per-category sliders are available when you connect your own Google API key (BYOK). The hosted Quick Start uses the recommended preset for whichever Family mode is active.
Foxie does not collect personal data. There is no account, no analytics tied to a user, and no advertising. Your child's chats are sent to Google Gemini to be answered, same as if you used Google's own products — and they go nowhere else.
On the question of "AI feeding kids ideas": all general-purpose AI models reflect their training data, which carries human biases. We don't pretend to fix that. What we do is keep tone family-friendly via the system prompt, lean on Google's strict safety filters in Teen and Kids modes, and keep features narrow — no recommendation feed, no autoplay, no follower counts.
The honest version: Foxie is a calmer way to use AI, not a replacement for talking with your kid about what they're seeing online.
You can set an optional 4-digit PIN. When set, switching Family mode (e.g. from Kids to Standard) prompts for the PIN. It's a soft lock that handles the everyday case.
Honest limit: a determined teenager with browser developer tools can bypass any client-side lock. The PIN is a speed bump, not a vault.
The Help hub covers setup, the Google key, troubleshooting, and every screen in Foxie.