Mom Guard · YouTube safety filter

Block the worst of YouTube. Keep the rest of childhood.

Mom Guard runs a tiny on-device classifier on every Short, video, and recommendation, ranks them from most harmful to least, hides the worst, and turns the week into a calm parent summary instead of a surveillance log.

On-device AI No ads, no resale Ranked feed log Kids can ask a parent
A mom and child enjoying a tablet together while a friendly green shield mascot watches over them
youtube.com · ranked by Mom Guard
  1. 1
    Body-check Shorts loop Hidden · bad self-image + brainrot · 92/100
  2. 2
    "Don't watch at night" jumpscare Hidden · horror · 84/100
  3. 3
    Adult influencer thirst-trap Blurred · adult context · 61/100
  4. 4
    Minecraft castle tutorial Allowed · creative play · 4/100
Example: today for Bella 52m YouTube. Mostly art + Minecraft. 6 Shorts hidden. One body-image trend flagged, with a conversation starter for tonight.

The product promise

Your child can still use the internet. Mom quietly removes the worst stuff.

Most parental controls block whole sites. Mom Guard works at the post, video, recommendation, and feed level so parents can reduce harm without banning every useful corner of the web.

AI feed cleaner

Classifies titles, visible text, URLs, and feed context to hide or blur mature, scary, addictive, scammy, or body-image content.

YouTube guardrails

Block Shorts, comments, live chat, homepage recommendations, autoplay, and rabbit-hole sidebars while keeping search and learning usable.

Low-dopamine mode

Hides infinite feeds, limits related videos, turns off autoplay, and can replace images or videos with click-to-load placeholders.

Calm parent log

Shows watch time, top topics, and blocked categories on the device. Snippets stay off unless a parent explicitly turns them on.

Ask a parent

On Family Plus, a blocked screen lets your child ask you to review it. You answer from the extension, so a block does not turn into an argument.

Conversation starters

Your weekly summary picks the most common topic, such as body image, scams, or scary content, and gives you a calm way to start the talk.

Safety packs

Start with age-based defaults, then tune the family rules.

5-7

Little Kids

Strict blocking for horror, violence, sexualised thumbnails, strangers, heavy swearing, and scary recommendations.

8-10

Tween Prep

Balanced filters for body-image spirals, addictive Shorts, prank channels, adult influencer content, scams, and off-platform contact.

11-13

Teen Prep

Less blanket blocking, stronger alerts for explicit content, grooming-risk language, self-harm, eating disorder content, gambling, and scams.

Study

Low-Dopamine

Blocks Shorts, Reels-style feeds, autoplay, drama bait, infinite scroll, one-more-video loops, and bandwidth-heavy media previews.

A family walking together inside a protective green bubble A friendly shield mascot gently blurring a scary video for a child

The paid feature

AI watch summaries, not a giant surveillance log.

Parents do not want to inspect every click. They want to know whether today was mostly Minecraft and art, whether Shorts took over, and whether anything needs a calm conversation.

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Plans

Free Shorts blocker. Paid calm for the rest of the feed.

Free for the Shorts blocker. Family adds every category, ranked logs, and weekly summaries. Family Plus adds approvals, alerts, and PDF reports.

Free

$0 forever

Shorts blocker, low-dopamine mode, one child profile.

  • YouTube Shorts, autoplay, and homepage feed controls
  • One child profile and three risk categories
  • Seven-day event log, stored on the device
  • A printable family safety plan
Add to Chrome

Family Plus

$15 per month

Up to five children, approvals, alerts, and PDF reports.

  • Everything in Family
  • Up to five child profiles with separate logs
  • Ask-a-parent approvals for blocked items
  • Weekly PDF report and a family rules PDF
  • High-risk email alerts and browser notifications

Annual

$99 per year

Family Plus, billed yearly. Two months free.

  • Everything in Family Plus
  • About $8.25 a month, billed once a year
  • Same 14-day free trial

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