ParentFilter in 66 seconds
No voice-over. Skip, mute or blur the moment while the film plays — never an altered copy. On any TV, your phone counts down and you hold the remote.
Footage: Big Buck Bunny © 2008 Blender Foundation · www.bigbuckbunny.org · CC BY 3.0 — excerpted and modified (cut, blurred, muted) to show the product. Shown with invented sample household settings; the film contains none of the content filtered. The Blender Foundation is not affiliated with and does not endorse ParentFilter. Music, titles and interface: original.
What works today
Try the countdown first, with no account at all: open the phone guide on a phone and load the sample. It runs against Big Buck Bunny, which is free to watch, and it is the same countdown a paid plan runs against your own films.
Parent guide pages are free to read, with no account. A free account (no card) lets you rate films and look up report cards. The analyzer builds a scene guide for a film you own, and the phone guide then counts down beside any TV; both are on paid plans, and the Lite plan's first month is free, without a card. Check whether your film has a scene guide. A parent guide is a different thing from a scene guide: parent guides come from families answering five questions, scene guides are timestamped moments.
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. Any guide can miss a moment that’s over in an instant, 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.
Rating a film builds its parent guide. Scene guides exist for films in our library — those a family has analyzed and shared, or that we have analyzed. The extension 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. Use it with an ad-free streaming plan: an ad break can shift or pause the film’s clock, and the filter may not follow it. On a TV you use the TV's own remote; the phone's own controls work when it is paired with our web player or extension (Full plan). The popup shown is a re-creation of the extension's layout, not a recording. What this site counts about a visit, and what it never counts, is on one short page. An independent product, not affiliated with any streaming service. Patent pending.
Never edits your file. No altered copy of any film is ever written. The only thing ParentFilter produces is a guide: timestamps and what to do at each one.
Never touches the stream. Nothing is decrypted, recorded or saved. In a browser the extension controls the official player the way your remote does; beside a TV the phone only watches the clock.
Never tracks what you watch. No viewing history, no ad trackers. A tap to filter, or a flag you choose to send, is a request under your account — how we handle it.
Nothing filters until you say so. A film starts unfiltered. One tap, film by film, and a notice opens every filtered playback saying the performance is altered.