Movie night, on your terms.
A subscription covers the hosted guide service and the shared library of scene guides. 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. Payment is handled entirely by Stripe; your card details never touch our servers. Cancel anytime.
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Full — it does it for you
Everything in Lite, plus automatic filtering during playback: moments skipped, muted or blurred, live, at your direction. Works with films you own that our players open — the browser analyzer and our free desktop player — and with streaming playback in Chrome through our extension, live on the Chrome Web Store, on ad-free streaming plans. Includes the shared filter library.
Full monthly
Month to month, no commitment. Good for trying ParentFilter with your family’s next few movie nights.
Full annual
A full year for less.
Lite — you hold the remote
A scene guide for films in the library, and a countdown warning before each moment while you watch: “Language in 10… 9… 8…” You decide what to do — skip, mute, or look away. ParentFilter never touches playback on this plan. First month free — no card needed.
Lite monthly
Scene guides, countdown warnings, report cards, and analysis of films you own on your own computer.
Lite annual
The same, for a year.
Scene guides exist for films in our library — those a family has analyzed and shared, or that we have analyzed. If a film isn’t covered yet, we say so rather than guessing, and a film that has only a language guide (words only: the strong language in its dialogue, not what is on screen) is marked that way. Check whether your film is covered.
What each plan can do
| Free account | Lite | Full | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read parent guide pages | Yes — no account needed | Yes | Yes |
| Check whether a film has a scene guide, and ask for one that doesn’t | Yes — no account needed | Yes | Yes |
| Play a filter file somebody hands you — our desktop player, or the extension | Yes — no account needed | Yes | Yes |
| Rate a film you’ve watched — five questions, one tap each | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Look up an AI-written report card | Up to 60 an hour | Up to 300 an hour | Up to 300 an hour |
| Have a report card written for a film that has none | Up to 3 a day | Up to 30 a day | Up to 30 a day |
| Analyze a film you own in this browser, then watch it here | No | Yes, with a warning before each moment | Yes, filtered for you |
| Scene guide and countdown on your phone, beside any TV | Sample film only | Yes | Yes |
| Your household’s own shelf of finished guides | No | Yes | Yes |
| Add a finished guide to the shared library | No | Yes | Yes |
| A guide another family made, applied by itself when the film opens | No | No | Yes |
| Your phone driving the player — skipping and muting for you | No | Warnings only | Yes |
| The browser extension filtering streaming playback from our library | No | No | Yes |
| First month free, no card | — | Yes | No |
The free ceilings are per account. Having a report card written also shares an hourly limit with everyone else on your network, and runs against two monthly ceilings — your own while you are free, and one for the whole site — so a busy connection or a busy month can stop you short of three.
Questions a table can’t answer
Do I need a subscription to read parent guides?
No. Every parent guide page on this site is public — no account, no card, nothing to cancel. A free account adds rating films yourself and report cards. The paid plans are for the other thing: acting on a film while you are watching it.
What happens if there’s no guide for the film we’re watching tonight?
We say so, in words, rather than guessing. Search a title here or on the phone guide and it tells you whether that film has anything yet, and you can ask for a scene guide to be made — free, and without an account; we email you once, if and when one is published. A parent guide page is a different road: it appears as households rate the film, so rating it yourself is what starts it. On a paid plan you can also analyze a copy you already own, right in this browser, and the guide that comes out is yours the moment it finishes.
Parent guide, report card, scene guide — what’s the difference?
A parent guide page is what households who watched a film reported, on our own 0–3 scale across five questions: language, violence, sex and nudity, frightening scenes, substance use. A report card is written by AI from what is publicly known about the film, labelled as such wherever it appears, and it is a description rather than a household’s answer — it is what we can show before any household has rated a film, and you can look one up for any film. A scene guide is neither: it is a list of timestamped moments, so a player or a phone knows the second each one starts. The first two tell you what is in a film; the third tells you when. One does not imply the other.
What does the phone guide need?
A paid plan, a phone with a browser, and a scene guide for that film in our library — except for the sample, which runs against a free film with no account at all, so you can see what it does before you decide. It sits beside any television and never touches your stream: it only watches the clock, which is why you start it when the film starts. It can’t see an ad break, so on a streaming plan with ads you pause it while they play, or fix the timing afterwards; an ad-free plan is much easier to keep in sync.
What does the browser extension need?
Full, and Chrome. Full is the plan that opens the shared library to the extension; below it the extension has nothing to look a film up in. It will still open a filter file somebody hands you directly, with no account at all — that has never needed a plan. Use it with a streaming plan that has no ads: an ad break can shift or pause the film’s clock, and the filter may not follow it.
What happens if I cancel?
Your account, your ratings and your report cards stay — none of those ever needed a subscription, and neither did reading parent guide pages. What stops is the paid side: your household’s shelf of finished guides, the scene guide on your phone, and the extension’s library all close with the plan. Nothing on your own computer is touched, and nothing of yours has to be given back, because we never held a copy of your films to begin with.
After checkout: sign in here with the same email — the analyzer is at /analyze, the movie-night guide at /watch on your phone, and your desktop-player token is on your account page. Lite includes the analyzer too — it builds you the scene guide, and you act on every warning yourself. Full is the plan where ParentFilter drives playback: moments skipped and words muted automatically, and another family’s guide applied by itself when the film opens.
Plainly stated: subscribing never changes how ParentFilter treats your movies. Filtering happens during playback, at your direction, on content your family already has — no altered copy of any film is ever created. We store your email, your subscription status, and what you choose to give us — your ratings, any moments you flag, the scene guides you build — plus a few settings and counters that keep the service running. The privacy page lists all of it.