We're launching GuardBox on Kickstarter — a sandboxed container that intercepts images and attachments from WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, and opens them inside ephemeral EU cloud sandboxes. Help us put it in the hands of journalists, activists, families and businesses across Europe.
Real threats, not hypotheticals.
WhatsApp, Telegram, and email clients decode whatever they're sent — none of them add a protective layer of their own.
Malware is routinely dressed up as an ordinary photo or document to pass casual inspection.
CVEs in image and document parsers can fire the moment a thumbnail loads — which is exactly why GuardBox's setup starts with turning auto-download and auto-preview off, so nothing renders before you choose to route it through the sandbox.
Share-sheet intake, streamed, never stored on-device.
Bot-based, server-to-server intake.
Routed to the sandbox before a client parser touches them.
Pixel-based rendering — nothing decoded on your device.
Ephemeral, isolated, EU-hosted processing.
For teams who want GuardBox wired into their own tools.
Activists, journalists, and families — free tier across iOS, Android, and web.
Agencies and enterprises — REST API, SSO, audit logs, GDPR and NIS2 alignment.
No VC pressure, no data monetization to satisfy investors.
Funded directly by the people who'll use it.
Self-hosting stays free forever — that's the whole point.
Every pledge — small or large — gets GuardBox into more hands and keeps the risk off more phones.
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