How it works
Get the report card
Name any film. An AI-written report card tells you what parents should know — age guidance and what's in the film, category by category — before anyone watches a frame. Look one up with a free account.
Choose your filters
Decide what happens to each kind of content: skip violence, blur scary moments, mute language. Families with stricter modesty standards can set their own — the analysis applies your definition, not a guessed one.
Watch, filtered live
The movie plays from your own file, and the filters act in real time — a smart remote, not an editor. Fine-tune any moment with the built-in review tools whenever you want to check the AI's work.
What it looks like, re-created
Big Buck Bunny — the Blender Foundation's openly licensed short film (© 2008 Blender Foundation · bigbuckbunny.org · CC-BY 3.0), with sample household settings. A film we're licensed to show — your own movies never leave your player; that's the whole point.
The blur, the SKIPPED badge, the muted caption and the clock in this panel are a re-creation of what the player does, drawn to show it — not ParentFilter actually running. The six seconds the clock says were skipped were cut out of this excerpt when it was made, and this cut of the cartoon has no soundtrack. Watch the real thing — 28 seconds, no account.
Watch the 66-second film — skip, mute and blur, and the phone guide beside a TV.
Use it today, in your browser
These all work right now, and it costs nothing to start — an account is an email address, or one tap with Google.
Rate a film you've watched Free
Five questions, one tap each, about what was actually in it. Free, and it is what builds the parent guides below — a film reaches our review queue on the first household's rating. Create a free account.
Analyze a film you own Any paid plan
Pick a movie file on your computer and this site builds the filter right in the page — the film itself is never uploaded, only small still pictures are analyzed, and on Full it plays back filtered on the spot; on Lite you get a warning before each moment instead. Your finished guide is kept in your account, and joins the shared library once we have reviewed it — after which, on the Full plan, our browser extension applies it to streaming playback too. Part of a subscription; works with files your browser can play. What it does and its limits.
Read what other families reported Free
Parent guides written by the households who watched the film — language, violence, sex and nudity, frightening scenes, substance use, each from none to strong. Free to read, free to add to. Rate a film you've watched.
Watch on any TV, phone in hand Any paid plan
Watching a streaming film tonight? The phone guide runs beside any television — “Language in 10… 9… 8…” — and you hold the remote. Nothing touches your stream, because the phone only watches the clock. Works with any TV and any service, and easiest on ad-free plans — the phone can’t see an ad break, so with ads you pause the guide while they play. Open the phone guide.
Filter streaming, automatically
One tap, film by film
The film starts. The extension recognises it against your guide library — on your own computer, so we never learn what you watch — and offers what it found.
- 1A film starts playing.Nothing has happened yet.
- 2You see what its guide checked.Counts, not adjectives: how many moments it lists, and what it never looked for.
- 3One tap and it runs itself.Nothing filters until you say so.
See it work first — 28 seconds, no account Install from the Chrome Web Store
Ad-free streaming plans only — on a plan with ads, an ad break can shift or pause the film’s clock, and the filter may not follow it. It works on one streaming service, named on its store page, on the Full plan, and only on films that already have a guide — a scene guide, or a language guide that mutes swearing and nothing else. The coverage search on the phone guide page says which films those are; in the extension, a language guide is for a film in English.
Want it for another browser, or word when new services are covered? Leave your email — that's all it's for.
Questions parents ask
Why can’t it analyze my streaming film directly?
Streaming video is encrypted, and breaking that encryption is illegal — so ParentFilter never touches the stream. Scene guides are built from copies of films their owners lawfully hold, a language guide (words only) is built from a subtitle file of the film’s dialogue rather than from any stream, and during streaming playback the extension reads only the clock, never a frame. One household with a file analyzes a film once, and other families can use those timings.
Does ParentFilter change my movie file?
No. ParentFilter never creates an altered copy of any movie. Filtering happens live during playback, at your direction — when the movie ends, your file is exactly what it was before.
How does ParentFilter know what is in a movie?
Each source is labelled for what it is. A parent guide is what households who watched the film reported, on a scale from none to strong. A report card is written by AI from what is publicly known about the film — age guidance and what's in it, category by category — labelled that way wherever it appears, and it may contain errors. A scene guide is the timed moments a player acts on, found by AI in a copy of the film a family owns, or in one we analyzed. Each says what it screened for, and one found by AI is labelled that way and may contain errors. A language guide (words only) lists just the swearing in a film’s dialogue, mild words like “damn” included. The methodology page explains how ratings are built, and the corrections page explains how to challenge one.
Can I set my own standards?
Yes. You decide what happens to each kind of content — skip violence, blur scary moments, mute language. Families with stricter modesty standards can set their own definitions, and the analysis applies your definition rather than a guessed one.
What can it actually do while the movie plays?
Three things: skip a scene, mute words, or blur the screen — in real time, on the moments a film’s guide lists, at your household’s settings, like a smart remote and never by editing the film. Beside a TV, the phone guide counts down to each moment and you press the remote yourself.
Which films does it work best on?
A film that’s mostly fine, with a few moments you’d rather skip — ParentFilter softens a film, it doesn’t remake one. A film made for adults would lose too much to suit young children. Any guide can miss a moment that’s over in an instant, or mark something harmless, and in a film full of fights or gunfire it will miss many. So start with a film you’d almost let your kids watch already.
Is filtering movies this way allowed?
ParentFilter filters during playback, at your direction, on content your family already has — the approach designed around the Family Movie Act of 2005. It never rips, never circumvents copy protection, and never stores an altered copy.
Can I use it today?
In your browser, yes. Pick a movie file you own and the site builds the filter right in the page — the film itself is never uploaded, only small still pictures are analyzed. On the Full plan it plays back filtered on the spot; on Lite you get a warning before each moment instead.
Plainly stated
ParentFilter never creates an altered copy of any movie. Filtering happens during playback, at your direction, on content your family already has — the approach designed around the Family Movie Act of 2005. Report cards are written by AI, and scene guides are found by AI analysis; both are labelled that way and may contain errors. ParentFilter works best on a film that’s mostly fine, with a few moments you’d rather skip — it softens a film, it doesn’t remake one. It is not affiliated with any studio, streaming service, or ratings organization.