For parents who want their kids to reach family without handing them a smartphone. Your child presses a labelled button to call Grandma. Your household number rings your cell when the bank calls. We handle the setup; you plug in the phone.
The most powerful safety feature is how little this phone can do.
First 10 founding-family spots · Alpha pricing · Niagara region
The problem starts with safety: young kids need a way to reach family, but a smartphone gives them far more than they need. FamPhone gives them less, on purpose.
The household benefit comes with it. One number for the bank, the school, the doctor, and the auto shop. Calls reach the right parent on their cell. Kids get a simple, approved way to call the people who love them.
Kids can call out. Parents stay in charge of what comes in.
The desk phone is simple on purpose: it lets your child call approved people. Incoming calls and household texts go through the parents first.
Every bit of the complexity lives with us. The phone is a friendly, dumb endpoint.
Who should the kids be able to call? Which calls should ring both of you, and which should go straight to one partner? We configure it all before the phone leaves our hands.
Power and internet. That is the whole installation. No app to configure, no settings to touch on the phone itself. It is already set up.
Your child walks up, sees clearly labelled buttons — one per contact, with the person's name — and presses one. Even a young child can do it without help or instructions.
Anyone who calls your FamPhone number rings your cell — not the desk phone. The auto shop rings the right partner. Voicemail arrives as a text. 2FA codes from the bank forward to both of you automatically.
Nothing hidden. No instant checkout. Just a careful first conversation.
You get a real reply from the person running the pilot, not an automated sales sequence.
We confirm your household, your contact list, and whether the current alpha limits are acceptable.
If it is a fit, we configure the Yealink phone, test the call path, and support the first setup directly.
The desk phone is the child's terminal — outbound only, to the people you've approved. It never rings on an incoming call. It can't dial a number that isn't on the list.
A whitelist only you control. The phone can only call the people on it — enforced by us at the network level, not just hidden on the screen.
Each speed-dial key is labelled with the contact's name. Your child presses "Grandma" and Grandma's phone rings. No numbers to read or remember.
When Grandma can't pick up, there's no cold voicemail beep — just a warm, reassuring voice: "Grandma's busy doing good in the world right now — try again later!"
Want a heads-up when your child talks to someone who isn't a parent? Per-contact notifications — always off by default, always your choice.
Your FamPhone number is the household's shared identity — for the bank, the school, the auto shop. Inbound calls ring your cells (calls from your own numbers ring the desk phone so you can check in at home). They go straight to your cell, routed exactly how you set it up.
Give this number to the bank, the kids' school, the auto shop, and the doctor's office. Calls reach your cell. Neither partner has to share their personal number.
Set routing rules per caller. Auto shop → just one partner. Aunt Dorothy → both of you simultaneously. Everything else → ring both, then voicemail.
No dialing in to a voicemail box. When a caller leaves a message, you get a text with who called, a transcript excerpt, and the number to call back.
Couples with joint banking or government accounts register the FamPhone number for two-factor auth. Both partners receive the code. No more "can you send me that code?"
The most powerful safety feature is how little this phone can do.
Your family's calls. Our hardware. Nobody else's.
We don't route your voice data through Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. Every bit of processing — including AI — runs on our own servers, in Canada.
How we handle your data →Hosted in Montreal, Quebec
Your account, contacts, and call records — Canadian servers, Canadian law.
AI runs on our own hardware in Ontario
Transcription and processing happen in our own facility — not a cloud AI API.
No contracts. No tiers. One price covers everything — the phone line, inbound routing, voicemail, SMS forwarding, and the parent portal.
pre-configured phone + shipping
phone line, routing, voicemail, SMS forwarding, portal
FamPhone is live, but still early. We are opening it carefully.
We're selecting founding families from the Niagara region first — close enough that we can support you properly as we work out the kinks. Anyone can sign up; Niagara households get first call.
No spam. Just a real reply from FamPhone in Niagara, usually within one or two business days.
You can also email hello@famphone.ca.