Everloom vs Circle Home Plus
Circle Home Plus deserves a respectful comparison, because the idea was right: one small white box, paired to your router, covering every device in the house. Parents bought it because whole-home coverage is what families actually need.
Circle was discontinued in 2023. The hardware is no longer sold, and Circle’s own support articles document the wind-down as the company moved on after joining Aura.[1][2]
If you own the box, you did nothing wrong; the product underneath you ended. This page is for the families it left behind.
What Circle Home Plus does better
Circle showed that covering the household at the network, rather than app by app, is the sane way to protect a family. We agree, and we built on it.
Bedtimes, pauses, and per-kid profiles in a friendly app made Circle approachable for parents who never wanted to think about networking.
A single device and subscription covered everyone, which is the pricing shape families prefer. We kept that shape.
Where Everloom is different
Circle’s box protected the home network; phones lost coverage at the front door. Everloom’s protection rides on each device (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows) on any network, including school Wi-Fi and cellular.
One optional one-time change on your home router covers the TVs, consoles, and everything else, the part Circle did well. If your router is locked by your internet provider, the per-device coverage still stands on its own.
Everloom is a service, not a box. There is no hardware to buy, update, or someday retire.
Beyond blocking, a Sunday digest shows how the week went by category, with a few good questions to ask. Controls keep kids safe; conversations keep families close.
Side by side
| Feature | Everloom | Circle Home Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 a month on the annual plan, or $17.99 month to month. One price for the whole family. | No longer sold; the product was discontinued[1][2] |
| Free trial | 15 days | — |
| How it protects | Per-device filtering on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and Windows, plus an optional one-time router change that covers TVs and consoles | Protected the home network with a box paired to the router; coverage ended at the front door[1] |
| Always-on VPN required | No | — |
| Reads your kid’s texts and DMs | Never | No |
| Screenshots of your kid’s screen | Never | No |
| What you see | Weekly patterns by category, plus a Sunday digest | Screen-time and filtering controls, while the service ran |
| Coverage-drop alerts | Yes. If coverage drops on a device, you hear about it | — |
| Weekly conversation guidance | Yes. Weekly guidance from your family’s category patterns, plus dinner-table questions | — |
| Works alongside Apple Screen Time and Google Family Link | Yes. They are free and good at limits; we cover what they cannot see | — |
| Per-app minute tracking | No, on purpose. The built-in free tools do minutes well | — |
Rows marked — are details we could not verify ourselves, so we would rather you confirm them with Circle Home Plus than have us guess.
Who should choose what
Choose a used Circle box if honestly, we would not. The product is no longer sold or developed, so any remaining service can end without notice.
Choose Everloom if you liked what Circle promised: whole-home coverage, one family price, calm controls, and you want it to follow each phone out the front door too.
If you are migrating from Circle, the ideas carry over: one household, one price, everything covered. What is new is that coverage now travels with each device, and the week comes back to you as one calm note instead of a dashboard you have to remember to check.
Not sure what your family needs yet? Take the two-minute Tech Check.
Sources
- Circle Support Center, on the future of Circle devices (end of sales, limited support). https://support.meetcircle.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026247832 (accessed June 2026).
- Circle Support Center, "Circle is now part of the Aura family". https://support.meetcircle.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001393971 (accessed June 2026).