glurpaEvery feature, in plain language
What each thing does, who it is actually for, and what it costs. If something here is unclear, that is our bug — write to hello@glurpa.com and we will fix the wording.
Your library stays yours, and nothing changes until you say so. If you cancel while holding forty channels, all forty stay saved to your account and all forty keep playing — until you choose which five your child keeps. We will never make that choice for you, and we will never make it overnight while you are not looking. Every screen you paired stays paired, and time limits, bedtimes and blocks you already set stay in force.
The free plan plays five channels. When you cancel we ask you to pick which five — the dashboard holds you at that choice before it lets you manage anything else, while your child keeps watching everything meanwhile — and that choice is fixed while you stay on free — you cannot swap one for another, the same way a free slot has never come back once spent. The other thirty-five are not deleted; they are waiting. Subscribing again brings every one of them back immediately, and you can add and remove as much as you like on Pro.
What you do lose are the Pro tools themselves: drift alerts stop arriving, and you can no longer set a new time limit, bedtime or video block. You can always switch existing ones off or loosen them on any plan — a limit you could not lift would be billing reaching into your child's screen, which is the one thing we will not do. Unpausing a channel is free on every plan for the same reason.
The safety core Always free
The part that makes this a child-proof player rather than YouTube with extra steps. It is free forever, not a trial, and it is never paywalled.
A profile for each of your children
Each child gets their own channels, their own history, their own continue-watching. A screen is paired to one child, so the four-year-old never lands in the nine-year-old's lineup.
An allowlist, not a filter
Your child sees only the channels you approved. There is no recommendation feed, no autoplay into the wider internet, no Shorts, and no search box. Nothing arrives because an algorithm thought it might.
A child's screen built for pre-readers
Big tiles, their name, their channels. Made for children who can't read yet: accidental taps and stray navigation go nowhere, and the remote moves through Glurpa's own tiles.
Works on the TV you already own
Open glurpa.com/tv in the television's browser once and type a short code. No app store, no console, no streaming stick. Also works on a tablet, a phone, or an old laptop by the TV.
Pair as many screens as you like
TV, tablet, phone, the spare laptop — all free, all in sync. We never charge per device, because a family has more screens than it has parents.
Picks up where they left off
Tap a channel and it resumes the video they were watching, a few seconds back. Videos shuffle rather than replaying the same episode order every time, and recently watched ones sit out until the channel has been through.
Ask a grown-up
Your child taps a topic they want — animals, space, drawing — and it appears in your dashboard as a one-tap approval. They can ask; only you can add.
5 channels, kept
The free plan holds five channels, free forever, not a trial. You can remove one whenever you like — removal is never blocked on any plan. While Glurpa is in beta nothing is capped and no slot is spent — this is how the free plan works once the beta ends. Worth knowing before you pick: a slot is spent, not occupied. Removing a channel does not give the slot back, so on the free plan your five picks are the five you keep. It works this way because otherwise remove-then-add would be an unlimited library with five showing.
Glurpa Pro free during the beta
Room to grow, and the tools for a parent who wants to steer rather than just approve. Everything below is about your control panel — none of it gates what a child can watch. During the beta, every family gets all of Glurpa, free — nothing is held back. Every family that joins while Glurpa is in beta is a founding family. When the beta ends, Glurpa Pro will be $4.99 a month — founding families keep that rate for good, and watching is never what you pay for, on any plan, ever.
200 channels
A real number, not the word "unlimited" — two hundred is where it stops, and we would rather say so than have you find out. It is more than any family we have met has needed: enough for several children with different tastes, or one child whose tastes change every few months. The free plan's five become two hundred.
Add one specific playlist, not the whole channel
Some channels are ninety percent right. A playlist lets you approve exactly the series you want — the science show, not the toy unboxings.
Daily time limits
Set the minutes per day. When they are used up the screen says "all done for today" and stays that way until tomorrow. The decision is made on our servers, so it holds even if the tablet has been sitting on the same page for hours.
Bedtime
A window when the screen simply does not play — 7:30pm to 7am, say. Overnight windows work the way you would expect.
Block a specific video
One video from a channel you otherwise trust, gone. It disappears from their screen and is skipped if it comes up in a playlist. Blocks are permanent until you lift them, on any plan.
Pause a channel, and bring it back
Take a channel off their screen for a while without losing it. Unpausing is free on every plan — a lapsed subscription can never strand a channel switched off.
Watch history
What they actually watched, and when. Kept for 90 days and then deleted automatically, because a permanent record of a child's viewing is not something we want to hold. Free on every plan, always. The last 90 days are recorded on every plan — it is what lets any screen resume where your child left off — and reading it back is your right as a parent, not something we sell you. Cancelling changes nothing here.
Pause the screens from your phone
Dinner is ready. One tap stops every screen on that child's profile within about twenty seconds and holds it there — it says "Paused by a grown-up" and the remote does nothing, because a pause a child can press their way out of is not a pause. When you let them watch again, the episode carries on from the second it stopped — no hunting for it on the grid, which is the difference between a pause and an interruption. Pausing is Pro. Resuming is free on every plan — if your subscription lapses while the screens are paused, you can always switch them back on. A screen you could not un-pause would be billing reaching into your child's TV, which is the one thing we will not do.
Two parents, one dashboard
Invite your child's other parent or guardian and you each get your own sign-in to the same channels, screens, controls and history. One plan covers you both. Screens stay paired to the family rather than to either of you, so nothing on a child's screen depends on which parent set it up.
Content-drift alerts
The one that is hard to do yourself. Channels change: a craft channel starts posting challenge videos, a science channel drifts to reaction content. We re-check the channels you approved and tell you when one is no longer what you approved. An allowlist you set once quietly stops being the allowlist you meant.