For protection, pause and schedules
Every device in the house filtered. Nothing to install on any of them.
Shield Core blocks ads, trackers, adult content and known threats network-wide, without putting an app on every device or sending your traffic through someone else's cloud.
Also on Shield Core:
- SafeSearch and app blocking for the whole house
- Pause and bedtime hours per device
- Security updates until at least 31 December 2029
Pay in 4From $106.00 a fortnight with Afterpay or PayPal, interest-free — or Zip, with weekly, fortnightly or monthly repayments on Zip's terms.
Same total either way — $424 — and nothing recurring from WOMBATS.
30-day home trial for households in Australia and New Zealand · 12-month warranty plus Australian Consumer Law · Security updates until at least 31 December 2029
Free AU/NZ dispatch during the founding batch · dispatched within 2 weeks of order · export orders: no Australian GST, Express courier from $89.
Not sure yet? Talk to us before you order:
At the founding price, Shield Core costs less than three years of Qustodio Complete at Australian pricing — and there's nothing to renew in year four. See the maths
You plug it in behind your modem and run a browser-based setup, about 15 minutes in most homes. From that point, every phone, laptop, TV and smart speaker on your network goes through Shield. Ads stop appearing on cheap apps. Trackers stop following the kids around the web. Phishing domains never resolve. You go back to using your network and forget Shield is there.
What Shield Core does
Network-wide ad & tracker blocking
Every device, including the ones with no built-in blocker, phones, smart TVs, IoT.
Phishing & malware domain reduction
Known harmful domains never resolve on your network.
Adult & unsafe content controls
Optional category-based blocking for the whole household.
SafeSearch enforcement
SafeSearch on Google, Bing, YouTube, DuckDuckGo and the other supported search engines, applied at the network level.
App & service blocking that holds
TikTok, Instagram and 130+ apps and services by name, for the whole house. Apps built to stay online are closed on their main route and their backup routes, and the popular ones are re-tested every month.
Per-device pause & internet schedules
Pause the kids' iPad at dinner without touching the rest of the house, or set internet hours that end at bedtime.
Local web management
The dashboard runs on Shield, on your network. No cloud login.
DNS bypass resistance
Local nftables enforcement against common encrypted-DNS bypass paths and Apple Private Relay.
SafeSearch and app blocking on Core apply to the whole house at once. Want different rules for each child — SafeSearch, app blocking and app schedules per device? That's Shield Edge. Want the kids' phones covered away from home too, with Follow-Me Filtering? That's Shield Vault.
When you outgrow Core
Core focuses on protection and control, for the whole home at once. If you also want different rules for each child, family storage and media, computer backups (Time Machine for the Macs) or a travel Wi‑Fi network, the upgrade path is the same hardware family, just a different model.
Shield Edge
Adds rules for each child's device
- Everything in Core
- Filtering, SafeSearch and app blocking per device
- File sharing and a media library, on a USB drive you supply
- Travel Wi-Fi over a cable
- Security updates until at least 31 December 2029
Shield Vault
Adds built-in storage, cable-free travel Wi-Fi and Follow-Me
- Everything in Edge
- A free 256 GB internal SSD, a backup drive for any computer (Time Machine for Macs) — paid upgrades to 1 TB, 2 TB or 4 TB
- Cable-free travel Wi-Fi
- Follow-Me Filtering: your rules on the kids' phones away from home, through a free app
- Back to Shield: your dashboard and the family's files from your phone or laptop, away from home
- Security updates until at least 31 December 2029
In the box
Your Shield, power supply, cable and a numbered founding card.
30-day home trial for households in Australia and New Zealand · 12-month warranty plus Australian Consumer Law · Security updates until at least 31 December 2029
“If WOMBATS ceased to exist tomorrow, your Shield would keep working. Most products in this category cannot make that claim.”
Order a Shield Core from the founding batch.
Founding price locked in for life. No subscriptions.
What “locked in for life” means →
Use it at home for 30 days (AU/NZ households). If it isn't right, prepaid label and a full refund.