Watch each tool do its job.
Five clips, each the real product doing the real thing. The film in them is Big Buck Bunny (© 2008 Blender Foundation · CC-BY 3.0) — an openly licensed short we can show you completely, which is exactly why we use it.
Programme · 5 clips
Rate a film you’ve watched
Five questions about what was actually in it — and “didn’t notice” is always an answer, stored as no answer rather than as “none”.
Look up a report card
Name a film and see what’s in it, category by category — written by AI from what is publicly known, and labelled that way — before you decide whether it’s a movie-night film at all.
Analyze a film you own
Pick a movie file on your computer. The page reads it here — the film is never uploaded — finds moments worth a decision, and shows you each one it found.
The phone guide, beside any TV
The film plays on your television exactly as always; your phone runs a timer beside it and warns you before each moment — you hold the remote. A tall clip gets a phone, not a letterbox.
The browser extension
Automatic filtering during streaming playback: it matches the film against your guide library on your own computer, and nothing filters until you tap “Filter this film.”
Which film should we try it on?
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. 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, and look up its report card first to see what’s in it.
Connecting the extension
Install it from the Chrome Web Store — 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. Then:
- Pin the Parent Filter icon (puzzle piece → pin).
- Click the icon → Connect with one tap. A ParentFilter page opens; sign in there if you aren't already, press the one button, and the extension is connected. Nothing to copy.
- Open a film on your streaming service, start it playing, and click the icon. If a guide exists for it, one tap filters the film.
Use it with an ad-free streaming plan. On a plan with ads, an ad break can shift or pause the film’s clock, and the filter may not follow it — a skip, mute or blur could miss its moment or come at the wrong time. The extension looks for signs of an ad before it starts filtering and holds back when it sees one, but it can miss them: we have not been able to test it on a plan with ads. It can also hold back on a plan that has none. If your plan has no ads and the extension says the stream may have them, tell us at hello@parentfilter.app — that is how we learn what it gets wrong.
Prefer to connect by hand? The token on your account page still pastes into the popup under "I already have an access token".
Why can’t it just analyze my streaming film?
Streaming video is encrypted, and breaking that encryption is illegal — it’s the line that sank earlier filtering companies. 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 single frame.
That split is also why it’s private: we never see your stream, and we learn which film you’re watching only when you ask for its guide — to filter it, or to follow it on your phone — or when you send us flags. And it’s why the shared library matters: a guide one household analyzes and shares joins the library once we have reviewed it, and families on a paid plan can use it.