You sit down for movie night and an unexpected scene or a string of profanity sends everyone reaching for the remote. VidAngel is a streaming filter that sits on top of services you already pay for — Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Peacock, and Amazon add-on channels such as Paramount+, STARZ, AMC+, PBS Masterpiece, and BritBox — and lets you skip or mute profanity, blasphemy, nudity, adult content, and graphic violence, scene by scene.^1
You can set default filters that apply across titles, or tighten them for a single show. Content Guides preview what a title contains before you press play: a visual breakdown of available filters, a short story overview, and a heads-up on themes that might matter at home.^2
The Harmon brothers launched VidAngel in Utah in 2013 to give households that kind of control.^3 After a studio lawsuit over its original disc-based approach, the company rebuilt around a streaming filter model and emerged from bankruptcy in 2020. The filtering business later continued separately from Angel Studios.^3 Bill Aho is CEO.^3 Over a million people have used VidAngel to watch thousands of movies and TV shows this way.^1 It is subscription-based, on Android and iOS.^1
