Greyscale
Colour drains from monitored sites: always, on a schedule, or gradually as your daily time runs out.
Chrome extension
Blocks harmful videos before your child watches them.
Mom Guard is a privacy-first browser layer for YouTube and social feeds. It scores titles, text, and context on your device, then hides, blurs, or logs what parents care about. Calm-scrolling tools help adults too.
Install
Add Mom Guard to Chrome in two minutes.
Works in Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chromebook. Chrome shows a developer-mode notice on startup until Mom Guard is listed in the Chrome Web Store.
- Unzip the download into a folder you will keep, such as Documents/mom-guard.
- Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
- Choose Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
- Pin Mom Guard, open it, and create a profile for each child. Sign in on the Family tab to use your plan.
Calm scrolling
Make feeds less sticky. For kids and adults.
Free on every plan. Pick a preset, or set each tool yourself. Parents set kids' limits; adults set their own.
Blur until tap
Images and video stay blurred until you tap them. Optionally they blur again when you scroll away.
Finite feeds
After a set number of posts, or one screen, you see "all caught up" and the feed stops loading.
Pause first
A short breath and "what are you here for?" before a monitored site opens. Once an hour, or every time.
Time limits
A daily budget per site with a nudge at 80%, break reminders, and bedtime hours that grey or block the site.
Quiet screens
Hide likes, views, followers, and unread badges. Pause autoplay and animations.
Presets: Calm, Study, Bedtime, Kids, and Adult self-control. Works on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, and Pinterest.
YouTube and safety
Keep useful YouTube. Remove the algorithm traps.
Built for Chrome on desktop, where parents can see exactly what is installed.
No Shorts mode
Hides Shorts shelves, links, and watch pages.
No rabbit holes
Hides the homepage feed, sidebar, autoplay, comments, and live chat when you choose.
AI feed cleaner
Local rules plus similarity scoring for sexual safety, violence, self-image, scams, harassment, AI companions, and brainrot.
Parent dashboard
Daily watch time, top channels, hidden items, and risk categories, with an exportable report. Family Plus adds a weekly PDF.
Fair block screen
Explains the family rule in kid-friendly words instead of a bare "blocked".
Ask a parent
Your child asks from the block screen. You allow one page, a channel, or a whole site, or say not now.
One profile per child
Up to eight profiles, each with its own rules, logs, and requests. An optional PIN locks settings.
Encrypted sync
Settings and requests sync between your devices, encrypted in the browser. mom.nz cannot read them.
School and PTA codes
Schools publish a policy code that sets topics, thresholds, and blocked sites, locked over family settings.
Privacy posture
Designed to avoid creepy surveillance by default.
Mom stores safety signals, not every word a child reads. Choose summaries only, watched titles, or a full local log. Snippets stay off by default and are redacted when on.
- Privacy mode: summaries only
- Balanced mode: watched titles, blocked content, and category summaries
- Strict mode: fuller local log for families who explicitly choose it
- Browsing content stays in the browser; nothing is uploaded
- No ads, no selling child data, no keylogging
- Optional sync is end-to-end encrypted with your family passphrase
How it works
Set up in five minutes. Calm from then on.
1Add Mom Guard to Chrome and create a profile for each child with an age pack.
2Risky Shorts, posts, and recommendations are ranked on-device, then hidden, blurred, or allowed.
3When something is blocked, your child can ask for a review. You approve or decline from the parent queue.
4On a Family plan, get a calm weekly summary with a conversation starter for the most common topic.