Gryphon HomeBound

Gryphon Online Safety

About this app

HomeBound™ extends the protection of GRYPHON™ to mobile devices even when it’s outside the home.

HomeBound™ is your mobile device app that is easy to install on a mobile device and routes the traffic of the mobile device, when outside the home, back to your Gryphon secure mesh WiFi router so that it can be managed and protected as if it were still on your Gryphon network. The app works in conjunction with your Gryphon secure mesh WiFi router and the Gryphon Connect app. You will need to first install Gryphon before installing HomeBound™ on the mobile devices that need to be managed.


VpnService:
- Uses the VPN Service API featured from Android 4.0. Some manufacturers seem to lack support for the VPN services, hence Homebound App won't work on these types of devices.
- Gryphon HomeBound, uses the IKEv2 key exchange protocol and IPsec for data traffic
- Supports for changed connectivity and mobility through HOMEBOUND Server
- HomeBound App (VPN service) establishes the connection to the HomeBound server based on the pre-installed certificates and the pre-defined parameters
- HomeBound App does not collect or track any personal information from the client devices
- VPN allows limiting the Internet connection to specific apps and websites based on the parental control settings, or exclude them from using it


AccessibilityService API:
- The HomeBound app uses the "Accessibility service" to protect the app from uninstalling it on the client devices by the kids.
- Parent will be alerted with a real time notification when the kid tries to uninstall the HomeBound App.
- HomeBound App does not collect or track any personal information from the client devices.

Ratings and reviews

I set everything in the Gryphon app; this app is supposed to extend protection outside the home wi-fi. It has never worked: blocked things can be accessed and unblocked things cannot. The only "threats" it ever found were my wireless printers, which it constantly tried to block. It randomly stopped monitoring one device but wouldn't allow me to add it back in. I've discovered ad blocking, the only paid thing that worked, is tied in to the subscription. Paid for a year of this headache app.

With my Pixel 6 Pro and T-Mobile 5G UC most frequently connected, this app prevented me from doing simple tings like opening my banking apps, "took too long to respond." I bus 20 minutes to and from work and go out shopping driving on the weekend. I couldn't open Maps. -- Pixel Support helped me troubleshoot my inability to connect to frequently used apps as mentioned including Chrome. We reset WIFI and Bluetooth, cleared the app cache, and made sure that Android is updated. -- That's when I had a light bulb go off. This all started after I began to use Homebound. Who's managing the VNC? Sometimes I use VNC to work from home, as do many of my coworkers. It's not unusual to have to ask our Technical Services Manager to make it work again. -- I am willing to be educated if someone can enlighten me about what's wrong.---I was happy to receive an immediate response from Gryphon here. It seems to confirm my experience. Our Gryphon router is a great improvement over the previous one, I'll say that!

Excellent VPN for on the go. It only works when you are away from your house. Not in it. It streams everything from your mobile data back though Gryphon so you don't get spoofed or hacked while away from your place. Many bad reviews, are from people who don't know how to use this. It really works. Call them if not, and they will square it away, with a forced Gryphon firmware update.

What's new

- Added User consent to accept the Privacy Policy.
- Internal bug fixes