What you are actually paying YouTube for
YouTube Premium costs $13.99 a month, and almost everyone who pays for it is paying for one thing: no ads. The feed, the autoplay, the recommendations, the comments, the open door to everything on the internet — none of that changes when you upgrade. You pay a monthly fee, and in return the same platform stops interrupting you. That is the entire product.
For a frum family, that math is quietly frustrating. You are handing over $168 a year to a company whose core business is still keeping your kids watching, and you are getting no protection for it — just fewer ads on the way to the open web. The filtering, the pre-watching, the worry: all of that is still your job, unpaid.
FilteredTube is $5.99 — and the filter is the point
FilteredTube is $5.99 a month for a single account, $9.99 for three, $14.99 for six. That is less than half of one YouTube Premium subscription. And the kosher filter is not an add-on you configure — it is the whole foundation. Every video was approved before it could ever appear. There is no feed to escape, no comments to worry about, no recommendation trying to pull a child one video further than they meant to go.
So the reframe is simple. You were already paying more, to a platform built to hold your attention, for less peace of mind. Here you pay half, to a platform built to serve you and then get out of the way, with the filtering already done. The ads are gone too — that was never the hard part.
Half the price, none of the open web
The savings are real, but they are not the headline. The headline is what you are no longer buying. With YouTube Premium you still own the whole job of deciding, minute by minute, what is safe — because the catalog is the entire internet. With FilteredTube the catalog is only what passed review, so the deciding already happened before you opened the app. Speed is instant, because there is nothing unapproved to filter at the moment you search; safety holds on every account, because the lens is applied on our side, not on the honor system.
It is also a real app, not a walled-off compromise. Your favorite artists, Torah classes, kids' videos, and podcasts are all there, organized so you reach them in a tap, with an easy assistant that will build a playlist for you on request. The private, at-home feeling of a place you shaped yourself — without the feed that shaped you. That is the trade: less than half the price, and the open web never comes with it.
At a glance
Key takeaways
- YouTube Premium is $13.99/mo and only removes ads — the open web stays.
- FilteredTube is $5.99/mo, less than half, with the kosher filter built in.
- You were paying more for less protection; here the filtering is already done.
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