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The 30-day home trial. Try Shield on your own network for 30 days. If it isn't right for your home, send it back — prepaid label, full refund.
See pricing & the trialOne small box behind your modem that protects every phone, laptop and TV in the house — and can add a private media library, encrypted backups and travel Wi-Fi. All on your own network, never in someone else's cloud.
Ads on the smart TV. Adult sites the kids shouldn't be on. Trackers following the kids around the web. Phishing emails pretending to be the bank. WOMBATS Shield sits behind your modem and quietly blocks the lot for every phone, laptop, tablet, TV and smart speaker on your network. If you want more, the same Shield family adds a private media library, encrypted backups for the computers in the house, and a travel Wi-Fi network you can take on holiday. No app to install on each device. No subscription. Nothing about your home leaves your home. The only thing that leaves is the question — where does this website live — and at home your Shield asks the internet's own address servers itself, so no DNS company ever builds a picture of your household.
Protection from $449 · media and per-device rules from $549 · the full Vault $749. Buy once. Founding price locked in for life.
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What Shield does
Protection for every device is the foundation, on every Shield. Edge and Vault add a private media library, local backups for the computers in your house — encrypted on Vault — and a travel Wi-Fi network you can take on holiday. None of it goes through anyone else's cloud.
The foundation, on every Shield: ads, trackers, adult content and phishing blocked at the network — phones, laptops, TVs, consoles and smart speakers — with SafeSearch enforced and per-device pause, schedules and app blocking. No app to install anywhere.
Edge and Vault add SMB file sharing, Jellyfin direct play and DLNA. Compatible TVs and players see your library locally — no cloud login, no catalog telemetry. Your media stays in the house.
Local storage any computer in the house can back up to over SMB — on Vault, encrypted, with first-class Time Machine support for Macs. Backups never leave your network.
Vault joins the hotel or Airbnb Wi-Fi — even networks with a login page — and gives you a calm, filtered network of your own. And with Vault's Follow-Me Filtering, the kids' phones keep your rules with them — on mobile data, at school, at a friend's place — through a free app that connects back to your own Shield. The phone's owner can switch it off, and your Shield shows when each phone last connected.
What you'll notice
Some of it is obvious on day one. Some of it is invisible by design, a phishing page you never reach doesn't announce itself, so the dashboard keeps the count for you.
Ads disappear in places you could never block them before, the smart TV, free games, cheap apps.
Fewer pop-ups and trackers, so everyday browsing feels cleaner and loads a little faster.
The dashboard shows how many ads, trackers and threats Shield blocked. Worth a look on day two.
Adult content doesn't load, SafeSearch stays on, and you can pause a device at dinner from your phone.
For parents: the under-16 law, practically →The router phones home to a vendor cloud. The “protection” is a subscription that watches the same traffic it claims to protect. The data drifts off the property. We built Shield because we wanted the thing on our own networks, and we couldn't find one we trusted.
Shield is a small, calm appliance that takes care of filtering, parental controls, ad, tracker and adult-content blocking, and (if you want it) private storage, media, backups and travel Wi‑Fi. Then it stays quiet. Buy it once. Own it. Keep it for years.
Read the long versionHow it fits
Every Shield broadcasts its own Wi-Fi, on out of the box. Join it and you're behind the filter straight away — nothing to configure. It's deliberately modest: made for setting up, travel and small spaces like a studio, not for streaming to a whole household.
For the whole house, your modem hands the network over to Shield. Your Wi-Fi name stays. Your coverage stays. Nothing gets re-paired — every phone, laptop and TV already on your network is simply protected from then on. And removing it one day is just as honest: take Shield out, factory-reset the modem, and you're exactly where you started.
See the architecture
Live, on your network
No telemetry leaves your house. The dashboard runs on Shield itself, on your network. Pause a device, exclude a category, or just leave it alone for months.
Requests made and requests blocked across every device, counted on the Shield itself.
Block apps and set school-night hours for one device, without touching the rest of the house.
Choose what to filter, and who looks up websites for your home.
Don't take our word for it.
Run a third-party check before and after you plug Shield in. Results may vary depending on your network.
Modem Autopilot
No terminal, no DNS, no settings pages. Plug Shield in, join the Wi-Fi network it broadcasts from your phone, and have your modem's admin login handy — the one printed on the modem's sticker. Press one button and Modem Autopilot recognises your modem and configures protection for you, usually in a couple of minutes. Every Shield sets up this way, and you're behind filtering from the first minute. Brought your own modem? It probably just works; if it isn't recognised yet, contact us — Guided Setup covers you in the meantime.
Works with the modems in most Australian homes
From every major Australian internet provider, plus the popular retail brands. If yours isn't recognised yet, contact us — and Guided Setup gets you protected in the meantime.
Providers
Modem brands
Powered by the WOMBATS Universal Modem Engine.
Pick your Shield
All three Shields share the same calm, local-first foundation. Edge and Vault add storage, media and travel features.
Quiet, network-wide protection.
For most homes
Founding price · standard from unit 61: $599
Own it outright — or 4 interest-free payments of $112.25 with Afterpay. Zip is also available at checkout.
Core + a private media library.
For media-heavy households
Founding price · standard from unit 61: $689
Own it outright — or 4 interest-free payments of $137.25 with Afterpay. Zip is also available at checkout.
Edge + encrypted backups + travel Wi-Fi.
For prosumers & frequent travellers
Founding price · standard from unit 61: $939
Own it outright — or 4 interest-free payments of $187.25 with Afterpay. Zip is also available at checkout.
At the founding price, a Shield Core costs less than three years of one parental-control app — and in year four it keeps filtering at $0.
From $449 · Founding price locked for life · 30-day home trial
I'm an electronics engineer who started using computers in the late 1980s and wrote my first program in 1990. WOMBATS Shield is the device I wanted in my own house, a small piece of equipment that protects every device on the network from one place, on hardware you own, with rules you can read for yourself. No account. No subscription. No cloud.
Khalid · Founder, WOMBATS Shield
Read the full storyIn the box
There is no required activation server. No cloud login that can be turned off. No subscription that lapses. A big vendor can switch a device off from its cloud; Shield has no such switch to flip. The filter lists Shield uses are public and continue updating without us. The only thing you lose if WOMBATS as a company goes away is us, not your network.
That's the whole pitch. Everything else on this page is detail.
Common questions
On your network. Filtering and management run on the Shield itself. There is no vendor cloud control plane and no telemetry pipeline back to us.
Your Shield keeps working. There is no required activation server, no cloud login, and no monthly fee. Filter lists are public and can keep updating without us.
Yes. Shield connects behind your existing modem over Ethernet. Your Wi-Fi stays the same. Setup typically takes about 15 minutes from a browser on your home network.
Shield blocks common encrypted-DNS bypass paths and Apple Private Relay at the network level. A determined user on a managed device can still tunnel out. You'll see them.
Nothing Shield does is permanent. To protect every device, it takes over one job from your modem, handing out network addresses. To go back, you remove Shield and factory-reset your modem, a standard button-press, and you're exactly where you started. No lock-in, and every Shield has a 30-day home trial.
No measurable difference for everyday use. Filtering adds microseconds per lookup — far less than the variance in your connection itself. One deliberate exception: the first visit to a site nobody in your house has been to before can take a blink longer, because your Shield finds the address itself instead of handing the question to a DNS company. That's the privacy trade, and it happens once — after that the answer comes from Shield's own memory. Most households notice pages load slightly faster once ad and tracker requests stop going out.
Most families pay for protection by the month and never total it up. A leading parental-control app is $159.95 a year at Australian pricing — about $480 over three years, $800 over five. A typical family stack (a premium app, a DNS service and one ISP add-on) runs about $300 a year. An all-in-one US family bundle converts to roughly $576 a year or more, renewing forever. A Shield Core is $449 at the founding price, bought once — less than three years of that single app. There is no subscription behind these numbers. A Shield keeps filtering in year four and year ten at $0, and it keeps working even if WOMBATS doesn't. The full comparison tables, with the date we checked the prices, are on the Why WOMBATS page.
Competitor prices are public list prices, checked July 2026; converted figures are approximate.
Shield is new, and the founding batch is 20 numbered units — so there are no five-star ratings to show you. What we can offer: a 30-day home trial on your own network, a 12-month warranty alongside Australian Consumer Law, signed software updates you can verify, and a founder who answers his own email. When the first owner reviews exist, they'll be published here, unedited.
One simple choice. One device. One quiet network. Founding price locked in for life.
