Everything you need to set up ParentalView and keep it humming. Three minutes to protected.
Sign in with Google and pick a family style (or build your own rules). Every template stays fully editable.
Write your rules: tick the concerns that matter and set the strictness dial. Plain English, editable any time.
Link your child's browser: install the extension on their Chrome, open its popup, and type your link code. If you told us your child is under 13, this is where we ask for a 50¢ card check. Done — YouTube is now checked against your rules.
When a video is opened on a linked browser, ParentalView checks its title, channel, and description against your rules. If it doesn't fit, a calm block screen appears — showing the house rule it matched, in your words — and you get an alert in your dashboard naming the video, the rule it matched, and one plain-English sentence on why. No fit issue? The video just plays. Verdicts are cached, so repeat checks are instant.
No. ParentalView judges the video's title, channel, and public description — the things you'd see before pressing play — read against your rules. It doesn't watch the picture or listen to the audio, so a video that hides what it really is behind an innocent title can get through. That's why Ask a Parent and your alerts feed matter.
Yes — that's the point. The block screen has an Ask a Parent button. The request lands in your dashboard with the video, our summary, and why it was blocked. One tap approves or declines. Arguments become requests.
Open the alert, read which rule it matched, and either approve the video from the request, or soften that rule in your dashboard. Your rules are plain English — editing "no scary content" to "mild spooky is fine, no horror" changes future verdicts immediately.
Add what you saw as a rule — e.g. "no videos glamorizing pranks on strangers." The very next check enforces it. Rules are your levers; specific beats broad.
Almost nothing, on purpose: video checks on YouTube only, a random device code, and your own settings. No browsing history, no child accounts, no data sales, ever. Full plain-language breakdown: what we see — and what we never see.
Only if you told us your child is under 13. U.S. children's-privacy law (COPPA) requires verifiable parental consent before we collect anything from a young child's device, and a card charge is proof an adult is at the keyboard. We charge 50¢ and refund it right away. Stripe handles the charge, so we never see or store your card number, and no subscription starts. Parents of 13-and-over never see this step. If a refund ever doesn't land, email us and we'll chase it.
On an ordinary Chrome profile, yes — any extension can be removed from chrome://extensions, and we'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. Two things help. First, watch your dashboard: if alerts and activity go quiet when you know they shouldn't be, check that the extension is still installed. Second, if you need it locked down, Chrome can force-install an extension through enterprise policy, which needs Chrome Browser Cloud Management or a managed device profile rather than the consumer Family Link setup. Email us and we'll walk you through it.
Free protects one device with the full rules engine. Pro ($6.99/mo) adds unlimited devices — everything else is already in Free. Cancel anytime from Settings — no phone calls, no guilt trips.
Pro ($6.99/mo) links as many devices as you like, so both kids' browsers are covered. One thing to know before you upgrade: your rules and your strictness setting are a single family-wide set applied to every linked device — there aren't separate profiles for a 7-year-old and a 15-year-old. If your kids are far apart in age, we'd suggest writing rules for the younger one and leaning on Ask a Parent for the older one. Separate per-child rules aren't built yet; email us if that's what you need.
Today ParentalView protects Chrome on computers (and Chromebooks). More platforms are on the roadmap.
Settings → unlink any device. Deleting your account removes every byte we hold — rules, activity, devices — immediately.
Stuck, or found a bug? Email markkaminsky99@gmail.com — a human (the founder) reads every message.