For families using YouTube, Nourous gently guides recommendations toward what matters — so children stay aligned with your values, without taking the platform away.
Nourous is an adaptive content filter — built for YouTube.
It runs as a Chrome extension, and as an app on your phone.
A dashboard for parents. A dashboard for yourself.
YouTube today — more platforms are coming.
Nourous
One filter, two dashboards — built for YouTube, on your computer and your phone.
How it works
The whole pipeline runs on your device, in the moment the page loads.
As YouTube loads, Nourous reads what's about to be recommended — right on the page, before you do.
Clickbait spiral, comfort loop, or genuinely worth the time — every thumbnail is judged on your device, in real time.
Against rules you set: age-appropriate limits for a child's profile, focus rules for your own.
Same YouTube, same freedom to choose — just fewer traps between you and what you came for.
Two modes, one filter
The same engine, pointed at two different problems.
The vision
YouTube is where the filter is sharpest today. Here's what comes into focus next.
The full pipeline — parent and focus modes, on desktop and Android.
The same drift shows up in reels, stories, and endless scroll — the next feeds we bring into focus.
Search results shaped by the same filter, not just video and social feeds.
One filter that follows you across the internet, instead of one app at a time.
Privacy
Nourous runs on the machine it protects. The videos you see, the videos it filters, the habits it learns — all of it stays local. There's no server copy of your watch history, because there's no server watching.
Why we built it
Nourous started with my cousins. I'd watch them disappear into hours of vlogger content — nothing wrong with any single video, but somehow one turned into ten, and by the end they couldn't tell you what they'd actually watched. Their parents saw it too, but nobody can watch over someone's shoulder all day.
It was my uncle who said it out loud first: someone should build something that changes what these platforms put in front of a kid, instead of just taking the phone away.
Blocking YouTube never felt right — it's where the good stuff lives too. So we built the thing we couldn't find: a filter that narrows the feed instead of switching it off. My cousins have run it every day since. I hope it buys your family back a few evenings too.
— Jareer · founder, Nourous
Pricing
Personal is free forever. Family adds parent controls, child profiles, and household management — try it 14 days free, no card required.
Personal
For protecting your own digital experience.
Free forever
Family
Protect and manage your whole family, with parent controls built in.
Best value · save 37%$14.99 /year
$23.88 billed monthly
No payment details required.
FAQ
No. The filtering happens on your device while the page is loading — recommendations are reshaped in milliseconds, and video playback is never touched.
Yes — the Nourous app filters Android on-device, the same real-time approach as the Chrome extension, included in your subscription. Most families run it entirely from their phones. On a computer, the Chrome extension covers the same ground.
It simply isn't offered. Filtered videos are removed from the feed — or blurred, at gentler settings — before they render. No red warning screens, nothing to make a fuss about. Search still works, and anything you've allowed still plays.
Your own filter: any time — pause it for 15 minutes, the rest of the day, or switch it off entirely. A child's profile: only with the parent PIN. Kids can request an override, and you decide from the dashboard.
Personal — your own filter — is free forever, no trial needed. Family, for managing your kids' profiles, has a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. When it ends, nothing charges automatically because there's nothing on file; Family features just pause until you decide, and Personal keeps working either way.
Free forever for yourself. Fourteen days free to try Family — no credit card.