KrewUWhy it exists
The phone arrives sooner than you'd like
At some point it's needed. To say you've arrived, for the team group, because everyone has one. And with the phone come the apps where anyone can write to anyone, where messages disappear, where a parent either knows nothing or reads everything in secret.
KrewU starts from a different idea: a small, closed network, made only of people someone has approved one by one. Inside that network your child does what they'd do anywhere else — writes, sends voice notes and photos, calls, posts a status — but nobody can get in who you haven't let in.
How it works
Three steps, and all three need a parent
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You create your child's profile
You download KrewU on your phone and create their profile: name and age. Nothing else is needed, and nothing else is asked.
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You link their phone with a code
The app on your child's phone only opens with a code you generate, and it lasts a few minutes. Without that code, that phone gets in nowhere.
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You approve who joins their crew
Every friend who wants in goes through you. Between two young people you need the yes of both sets of parents: if one of them says no, they don't write to each other. No searching by name, no public profiles, no requests from strangers — because there's no technical way to send one.
What's inside
What's needed, and nothing whose only purpose is to keep them hooked
SOS with location
One tap, ten seconds to think again, and the alert goes out with the location. It reaches whoever has that role: parents, siblings, a grandparent, a trusted adult — including those who can't write to them and those who normally don't see the location.
Messages, voice notes, photos, calls
The normal things of a chat, inside a closed perimeter. Voice notes can be transcribed into text, and messages in another language arrive translated below the original.
Siblings linked by themselves
Two of your children find each other without you having to approve anything: they write to each other, see each other on the map, receive each other's SOS alerts. When an alarm goes off, a brother two streets away gets there before a parent at work.
Where they are, when they share it
The location shows on the map, and your child knows you're seeing it: the app says so. You can also set home or school and get an alert when they arrive.
An automatic content check
Written messages go through a word analysis and images through an automatic check. When something doesn't add up, it comes to you — it isn't deleted in secret.
Statuses that last a day
A photo or a video that expires in twenty-four hours, seen only by their crew. Before appearing it goes through an automatic check: nothing reaches other people's eyes without having been looked at.
For you too
The class, the team, the dance course
Next to the young people's part there's yours: the groups between adults. An adult opens them and adults join — young people don't get in, and it isn't a preference that can be changed.
In a group's public listing you see only the name: not how many people there are, not who's in it. A group that said "class 3B, twenty-two parents" would hand anyone a map of where children are.
To know beforehand
What KrewU doesn't do
An app for young people's safety that only tells you what it can do is an app not to trust. These are the things we think you should know before installing it, not after.
- The SOS doesn't replace the emergency services. It alerts the family, not the control rooms. In case of immediate danger you call the emergency number for wherever you are, always.
- The automatic check doesn't listen to voice notes. It reads written messages and looks at images; audio no. You can have a voice note transcribed whenever you like, but until you ask, nobody checks it.
- On videos it looks at the first frame. A video whose beginning is harmless passes the check.
- The automatic check can be got around. It catches the clumsy cases, not someone who knows what they're doing. It's there to make you notice, not to replace you.
- If your child switches the phone off, the location disappears. No app can say where a switched-off phone is, and anyone who promises it isn't telling the truth.
Data
The bare minimum, and it stays in Europe
What we ask for
About your child: name and age. No surname, no school, no phone number, no home address. About you: the email you sign in with.
What we don't do
No advertising inside the app. No profiling. No sale or transfer of data to third parties. There are no investors who care what your child writes.
Where they are
European servers: the database in Germany, the attachments in Belgium. Voice-note transcriptions and translations also go through European endpoints: a young person's voice doesn't leave the Union.
Who's in charge
You are. You can see what was consented to, change it and request full deletion from the app, without writing to anyone.
If you're between 8 and 17
This part is for you
We'll tell you how things are, without beating about the bush. In KrewU your parents approve who joins your crew, and in some conversations they can read what you write. When that happens, it's written inside the chat: you don't find out afterwards, and nobody does it in secret.
The rest is yours. You choose the chat backgrounds, make stickers from your photos, post a status that lasts a day, call your crew. And if you find yourself somewhere you'd rather not be, one button alerts whoever can come and get you — without you having to explain anything to anyone while you do it.
Download
KrewU is on the stores
Install it yourself first: you start from the parent's phone. You create your child's profile, the app gives you a six-digit code, and with that you link their phone.
KrewU speaks Italian, English, French and Spanish: it picks up the phone's language by itself.
Questions
What we're asked most often
How much does it cost?
KrewU is free and has no advertising. SOS, location, chat and crew are never paid for, and never will be: they are the reason the app exists. KrewU Plus is an optional subscription for larger families — more children, more adults and trusted adults on the same account — at €4.99 a month or €39.99 a year. You cancel it in your store's settings.
Do I have to install it too?
Yes, and it isn't a detail: KrewU works in pairs. You approve who joins and receive the SOS alerts, your child writes and calls. Without a parent's phone, theirs doesn't even get linked.
Can I read their conversations?
It depends on the supervision level, and they know it too. Conversations with a trusted adult can always be read by parents. Between young people they can when at least one of the two is on full supervision — the minimum required up to age 10. From 11 up you don't read the conversations: you see who they're talking to and you receive the reports. In every case the rule is written inside the conversation: silent surveillance isn't acceptable surveillance.
What if the parents are separated?
There can be several adults on the same profile, with the same powers: both see the location, receive the SOS alerts and approve who joins. An invitation brings the second parent in without them having to start over.
Who can contact my child?
Only close family can write to them: parents, brothers and sisters. The other trusted adults — a grandparent, an uncle — receive the SOS alerts, with the location at that moment, but don't send them messages and don't see their location on the map: only parents and siblings see that. Friends come in one by one, approved by both sets of parents.
What age is it for?
KrewU is made for young people aged 8 to 17. Under 14 consent is given by a parent, as Italian law requires.
Who's behind it?
ElleMultiverse S.R.L., an Italian company based in Trezzo sull'Adda. KrewU comes from a father who wanted to give his daughter a phone without giving her everything else along with it.
Documents
Privacy policy · Terms of service
Contact
Support: assistenza@krewu.it
Privacy and data: privacy@krewu.it
Reports: segnalazioni@krewu.it