A haven for the household network.

Parental controls that work at the connection layer — schedules, time limits, and category blocking enforced right on your router. No DNS sinkholes, no app to install on every device.

How it works

Policy is decided in the cloud and enforced on the gateway router — at the connection layer, where it can't be bypassed by changing a device's DNS.

1

Set the rules

Create profiles for each kid — bedtimes, daily time limits, and blocked categories — from the web app. No per-device software.

2

The router enforces

Your wifihaven router applies the policy at the connection layer. Blocked traffic is dropped at the gateway, not faked at the DNS resolver.

3

See what's happening

Watch which devices are online, what they're reaching, and when limits kick in — and grant a few more minutes when it's warranted.

See it in action

One dashboard for the whole house, and a friendly block screen on the device when a limit is reached. (Preview with sample data.)

app.wifihaven.net/dashboard
wifihaven Dashboard Devices Profiles Advanced ▾ admin · admin

Dashboard

Now

Kids

Maya's iPad2m ago

watching youtube.com · 14m

Teens

Leo's Laptopjust now

watching discord.com · 3m

Queries today

8,412

Blocked today

326

Queries (1h)

540

Blocked (1h)

22

Recent queries
4:12:08Maya's iPadi.ytimg.com✓ ok
4:12:03Leo's Laptoptiktok.com✗ blocked
4:11:54Living Room TVapi.netflix.com✓ ok

The household dashboard — live activity, daily counts, and a rolling query feed.

app.wifihaven.net/blocked

Blocked

tiktok.com

Outside allowed time.

for Kids

Time today
Used: 60 / 60 min
No time left today

What a blocked device sees — with a one-tap "ask a parent" request.

Why the connection layer? DNS-based blockers only answer a name lookup — any device that hard-codes an IP, uses DNS-over-HTTPS, or ships its own resolver slips right past them. wifihaven lets DNS resolve normally and drops the actual connection on the router, so the block holds.

Self-host or let us host it

Same software, your choice of who runs the cloud side.

Cloud

We run the control plane; you just plug in a wifihaven router and manage everything from app.wifihaven.net. Nothing to maintain.

Self-hosted

Run the whole stack on your own hardware — the API server bundles the web app — and keep every byte of household data under your roof.

Open source

wifihaven is open source. If it's not working the way you want, read the code, open an issue, or send a pull request to fix what you see — it's your network, and your software too.

View on GitHub → Open an issue

Ready to give your network a haven?

Open the app →