Movie night, phone in hand.

The film plays on your TV. This phone counts down beside it and tells you what is coming.

The Lite plan’s first month is free.

Stage directions

1. 1Open this page on your phone.This is the half you hold.
2. 2Play the film on your TV, from your own service.Nothing about the film changes.
3. 3Tap Movie started — the phone counts down to each moment.You hold the remote. We hold the clock.

Any TV, any service — easiest on ad-free plans. The phone can’t see an ad break, so with ads, pause the guide while they play.

Is your film covered?

Scene guides exist for films in our library. Type a title and see — no account needed. A title marked “language only” has a language guide (words only): the swearing in its dialogue, mild words included, not what is on screen.

Try the countdown now, with a free film

Big Buck Bunny is a ten-minute film the Blender Foundation released under CC BY. Play it on any screen — it is free at bigbuckbunny.org — and this phone counts down to three moments a sample household chose, the first at 3:27. No account needed; the sample skips ahead to 3:00 so you are not waiting.

Load the sample guide

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Scene guides come with any paid ParentFilter plan.

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Language guide (words only)

Words only. This guide lists the swearing in the film’s dialogue, mild words like “damn” included. The picture was never looked at — violence, sex and nudity, frightening scenes, smoking, drink and drugs are not covered, so nothing here means they are not in the film.

Muting single words by hand isn’t realistic — a word is over before a thumb reaches the remote. Use the list to decide whether the film suits your family tonight. On the Full plan, ParentFilter mutes the words for you as the film plays on a computer, when the guide’s timings fit the copy you’re playing.

Count down to these moments anyway

Two things to know

Ad breaks break the timing. Every advert stretches the clock by an amount we cannot see — we are a timer next to a television, not something watching your stream. Use the pause button when the ads start, or fix the timing afterwards. Ad-free playback is much easier to keep in sync.

Keep this screen on. The timer runs in this page. If the phone sleeps or you switch apps, it keeps counting, but the alerts may not reach you.

Alerts

Long enough to find the remote.

Vibrate

Sound — off by default; the room is watching a film.

Start the timer

Tap Movie started the moment the film itself begins — after the logos, when the first scene appears. If you tap at the wrong moment you will see it within seconds, and you can fix it.

Or pair with the big screen

The big screen shows a six-digit code. Type it here. This phone then syncs to the second, and warnings land here — on the Full plan it can mute, blur or skip the film itself.

Enter the six digits

Keep this phone face-up on the armrest, and keep this screen on.

Everything in this guide

Guides can miss a moment or catch it late — preview a film if it matters. What can go wrong