YouTube,
minus
the algorithm.
Pick the channels they can watch. Set the hours they're on. Bedtime is bedtime, and one MrBeast video never turns into three hours of whatever's next.
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For the years between
Bluey and Black Mirror.
The kids' apps are too babyish. The grown-up tools are all-or-nothing. ViewHelm does one thing: the channels you pick, the hours you pick. Nothing else.
Same kid. Different week.
He opens YouTube for a math video. Ninety minutes later it's MrBeast reactions.
Khan Academy and Crash Course are on from 3:30 to 6. Nothing else is.
“Five more minutes” somehow turns into forty-five.
YouTube turns off at 8:00. The tab closes. There’s nothing to negotiate.
A new channel he's into. I watch three random videos, call it fine, forget to check in.
He taps to ask. I see a one-line summary. Five seconds to approve or deny.
Six controls. Set them once.
Khan Academy on weeknights. Mark Rober on weekends. You decide.
YouTube goes dark at 8. The tab closes. Nothing to negotiate.
They ask for a new channel. You see a one-line summary. Yes or no.
Channel names, time spent, when. 30 days of history.
A plain-English take on what a channel is about.
VPN, incognito, clock changes. We’ve been there. Covered.
“He wasn't looking for a distraction. The algorithm was looking for him.”
We built ViewHelm because it felt like we were losing the battle.
Our two sons are 10 and 12. They use YouTube the way I used a library. They watch a Khan Academy video and a French verb pronounced and the maths thing their teacher set. And then the algorithm gets a vote, and an hour later they're watching something neither of us would have picked.
YouTube Kids is too babyish. Screen Time is all-or-nothing. We didn't want a camera pointed at our kids. We wanted Khan Academy in, MrBeast out. So I built it.
If you're in the middle of the same fight, I hope this helps your house too.
We built a fence.
Not a camera.
We log channel names, not videos. Nothing we collect would embarrass a 13-year-old. We have no advertisers. We don't train AI on what your kid watches. Show them this paragraph.
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Unlimited kids, unlimited channels, AI summaries, bedtimes, per-channel rules. Everything's included. $8/month or $80/year when you're ready.
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