Movie night, phone in hand.

Open this page on your phone. Play the film on your TV.

The film plays on your television, from your own service, exactly as always. This phone runs a timer beside it and tells you what is coming — “scary moment in 30 seconds — grab the remote” — for any film in the guides. Works with any TV and any service on ad-free plans — ad breaks throw off the clock, and the guide is honest about not covering them.

Lite is $4.99/mo and the 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, on ad-free plans — ad breaks stretch the clock and the guide says so rather than guessing.

Is your film covered?

Scene guides exist for films in our library. Type a title and see — no account needed.

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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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 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

Playing on parentfilter.app on another screen? Enter its code and this phone syncs to the second — warnings land here, and on the Full plan this phone can mute, blur, or skip the film itself.

Everything in this guide