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Every plan includes a FREE trial and billing only starts 30 days after your first filtered message.
Email filtering and a private archive. A solid starting point.
Start FREE trial →- Personal FenceChat email address
- Your real address always stays private
- Unlimited filtered messages
- 30-day encrypted archive
- Works on every device and email app
Adds SMS filtering and a longer archive for more complete protection.
Start FREE trial →Everything in Essential, plus:
- Filter SMS as well as email
- Your FenceChat SMS number: only contacts you add can text it
- Your real mobile number kept private
- Filtered texts delivered to your inbox and Dashboard
- Reply from your Dashboard
- 100 SMS sends a month for replies or phone forwards. Filtering itself is unlimited
- Your replies cleaned up too (opt-in)
- SMS Contact book
- 90-day encrypted archive
- Export your message archive as a spreadsheet
Built for people navigating legal proceedings, intervention orders, or formal disputes.
Start FREE trial →Everything in Protected, plus:
- Double the SMS sends: 200 a month for replies or forwards
- 24-month encrypted archive
- Hostile language detected and tagged: coercive control, financial abuse, and more
- Add private notes to any message
- Case journal: private dated log entries
- Export a timestamped PDF, formatted for legal proceedings and ready for your solicitor
- Legal professionals can check your exports are genuine and complete
- Scheduled monthly PDF exports delivered to your inbox
- Priority support
✓ No lock-in contract ✓ No surprise charges ✓ Cancel any time See each plan’s key facts →
Full feature comparison
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| Feature | Essential | Protected | Legal |
|---|---|---|---|
| FenceChat email address | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI filtering on all email | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reply by email (real address hidden) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS | |||
| FenceChat SMS number | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI filtering on text messages | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filtered texts to your inbox and Dashboard | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS reply from Dashboard | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS sends per month | — | 100 | 200 |
| Contacts and archive | |||
| Contacts (Sender’s numbers with names) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Message archive | 30 days | 90 days | 24 months |
| Archive encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export and legal proceedings | |||
| Spreadsheet export | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF export (timestamped, formatted for your solicitor) | — | — | ✓ |
| Exports can be checked as genuine and complete | — | — | ✓ |
| Hostile language tagged by category (coercive control, financial abuse, and more) | — | — | ✓ |
| Private message annotations | — | — | ✓ |
| Monthly archive email | — | — | ✓ |
| Support | |||
| Email support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority support | — | — | ✓ |
How each part works: the message filter, the Message Archive, the private relay and email and SMS filtering. New to FenceChat? Read how FenceChat works, what the other person sees and how it compares with co-parenting apps.
Common questions about plans
Do I need a credit card to start the trial?
Yes, a card is added at sign up but you are not charged then. Filtering starts at sign up, and billing starts 30 days after your first filtered message (45 days if you’re referred by a partner). If you cancel before then, nothing is ever charged.
Can I change plans after signing up?
Yes, at any time. Plan changes take effect immediately. If you downgrade, the unused portion of what you’ve already paid is credited towards your next bill. If you move to a plan with a shorter archive, older messages are kept for 30 days in case you change back, then deleted, so export anything you want to keep first.
What happens to my FenceChat address if I cancel?
Your FenceChat email address is permanent. It does not change, get deleted, or get reassigned regardless of your plan. Your SMS number is held for 30 days after downgrading to Essential, so you can reactivate it if you upgrade again within that window.
Why is SMS only on the Protected and Legal plans?
SMS numbers require a mobile number to be provisioned in your country and there is a cost and regulatory overhead involved that is not applicable to email. SMS filtering is the most commonly requested upgrade from Essential users, so a Protected plan is typically where people land within the first month.
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