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LeadMeNot vs Canopy
Canopy is best known for parental controls, and has a plan for adults with an accountability partner too. Its real-time AI filter replaces explicit images and video with white boxes in browsers and some apps, and it helps prevent sexting. LeadMeNot is built for adults choosing their own boundaries, and parents use it for teens as their partner.
Choose LeadMeNot if you want the apps you choose blocked on your computers too, not just phones and tablets, and a partner who's alerted when a rule is broken and gets your evening reflections.
Where Canopy fits better: Protecting a young child, or want explicit images filtered as they appear? Canopy's image filtering goes further than ours today, and it can hold a child's flagged photos for a parent to review.
Side by side
What each one does today. Where Canopy is stronger, we say so.
| What it does | LeadMeNot | Canopy |
|---|---|---|
| Images and video | Text only today; image detection is in development | Replaces explicit images and video with white boxes, in browsers and some apps1 |
| Blocks porn | Built-in Adult Websites & Apps list | Blocks explicit content in browsers and many popular apps1 |
| Block the apps you choose | iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac | On smartphones and tablets1 |
| Someone you trust is told | Alerted when a rule is broken, plus evening reflections | An accountability partner: a person or an AI “Ally”1 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Chromebook | Phones, tablets and computers; 1, up to 3, or up to 10 devices, depending on plan1 |
Also in LeadMeNot
- Keyword and phrase rules, inside apps on Android, Windows and Mac
- Block just part of a site, like youtube.com/shorts, and keep the rest
- Daily limits and schedules
- Safe Wall: loosening a rule takes your partner's OK or a waiting period
- Built-in Adult Websites & Apps and Gambling lists
Switch from Canopy, step by step
- Install LeadMeNot on each deviceGet it at leadmenot.org/download. On Windows, Mac and Chromebook you create your account at app.leadmenot.org first, then sign in to the app.
- Follow the first-day walkthroughThe first-day walkthrough switches on the Adult Websites & Apps list and takes you through your partner and Safe Wall.
- Setting it up for a teen or someone else?Follow Set up for someone else: the account goes in their name on their device, and you become their partner, so you get the alerts and approve any changes.
- Set your boundariesAdd rules for the apps, websites and words you want gone. Use a schedule or a daily limit for things that are fine in moderation.
- Check it worksType just the word leadmenottest (no .com) into your browser and press Enter. If it's blocked, you're protected.
- Cancel Canopy when you're readyCancel your Canopy plan where you pay for it, then remove it from your devices.
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