Paste the email.
We'll tell you what's actually going on.
A warm, practical helper for anyone who wants to be safer online but doesn't know where to start. Not another subscription promising to "protect" you from things it can't. Just the helpful neighbor who happens to know this stuff.
Paste something you're not sure about.
First 5 scans a month are free without an account. We analyze and discard.
Porch Light is not a product that protects you.
Windows Defender and the platforms themselves do protection. Porch Light makes you smarter and faster at the decisions only you can make — the email you're about to open, the link you're about to click, the gift card you're about to buy.
We're not antivirus. We're not identity-theft insurance. We're not a "we'll handle it for you" service with a monthly fee that mostly funds a TV budget. The honest promise is visibility and better decisions, not safety.
Six practical tools. Warm, specific, no jargon.
Check a suspicious message
Paste an email, text, DM, or voicemail. We tell you whether it's a scam, what kind, the specific red flags, and what to do next.
Make sense of your breaches
Look up your email on haveibeenpwned.com (free, Troy Hunt's site). Tell us what showed up and we'll sort out which 3 passwords to rotate first — not a panic-inducing list of all 14.
Tighten your privacy
Walkthroughs for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, TikTok — a few clicks with a reason for each one.
Get off data brokers
Step-by-step opt-outs for the top people-search sites. We'll tell you which ones to hit first and what not to hand over.
Coach a family member
Talking to a teen about sextortion, an aging parent about phone scams, or a caregiver about elder fraud — without the blaming language.
Something already went wrong
A calm, clock-ordered checklist for the next hour, the next day, the next week. Always free. No sign-in. No paywall, ever.
Three things, in order.
- 01
Paste, ask, or upload
A suspicious message. A platform you want to lock down. An email address you're worried about. Or the free-text situation if something's already wrong.
- 02
Read the plain-English answer
What this is, why you think so, exactly what to do next, and how to verify it yourself without using anything in the original message.
- 03
Act — or ignore and move on
Nothing gets stored, nothing gets sold, and there's no drip email trying to manipulate you later. You asked. We answered. That's it.
$4/month, cancel in one click. Or stay free.
The free tier covers what most people need. $4 pays for inference, hosting, and someone answering email. It is not trying to become $30 next year. Incident help stays free regardless — paywalling someone in the middle of a scam would be the opposite of the point.
- 5 scam checks / month
- 1 breach rotation plan / month
- Top 10 data brokers
- Incident help unlimited
- Unlimited scam checks
- Unlimited breach rotation plans
- All ~100 data brokers
- Up to 5 family profiles
- Emerging scam wave alerts
"The light we leave on so you can see what's at the door."