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Step by step

1. Add a person

   On the Beebo PC, click Users. Under Add a user directly, type the person’s name (an email is optional) and click Generate code. If someone asked for access, their request is under Pending requests: choose Approve or Deny.

   Send them their username and login code. They sign in with these on their phone, in a browser, or on a TV.

   What you’ll see: A green box with the person’s username and login code, and a new row for them in the All users list.

2. Set what they may watch

   In that person’s row, open Parental controls. Pick a starting point: Young children (under 7), Ages 7 to 12, Teens (13 to 17) or Off. To change the details, open Fine-tune. There you can choose:

   • the rating system (United States: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, or Canada: G, PG, 14A, 18A, R),
   • the highest film and TV rating allowed,
   • whether to hide titles that have no rating,
   • which genres to hide.

   You can also block single titles or collections, or switch to Only show titles I allow.

   What you’ll see: Under “Parental controls for” and the person’s name, a short summary of their limits, such as the ratings, minutes a day and bedtime.

   Screenshot coming. The Parental controls panel for one person, with the presets and Fine-tune open.

3. Add a daily limit and a bedtime

   In Fine-tune, type minutes into Daily watching limit, and set No watching from and until times, for example 21:00 until 07:00. Minutes only count while the person is actually watching, and the count starts again at midnight.

   What you’ll see: When time is up, the person sees a friendly line such as “It’s past bedtime on this profile. Watching opens again at 07:00.” instead of an error.

4. Set the owner PIN

   On the Users page, find Owner PIN, type four to eight digits and click Set PIN. On a shared phone or TV, Beebo then asks for the PIN before anyone leaves a profile with limits, switches to a profile with more access, or changes a limited profile’s settings. Five wrong tries lock it for 15 minutes.

   What you’ll see: The label changes from “Owner PIN (not set)” to “Owner PIN (set)”.

5. Optional: let an adult keep their viewing history private

   Private viewing history is for adults who share a server. First the owner marks the person as an adult in the Users row. The person then signs in with their own login in a browser, opens Viewing privacy, ticks Keep my viewing history private and confirms with their own password. It is only available to approved adults with no parental restrictions.

   With it on, the owner no longer sees that person’s titles, file names or playback progress. The owner can still see bandwidth, devices, connection status and total watch time, and cannot replace the person’s password; they recover it through their own email.

   What you’ll see: In the owner’s Users view: “Viewing history is private. Titles, filenames and playback progress are hidden. Usage monitoring remains available.”

Where the limits apply

The limits are kept by the PC at home, not by the phone. Titles over a person’s limit disappear from lists, search, details pages, playlists, casting, downloads and the website, and they refuse to play even if someone knows exactly where to look. If you change bedtime or the daily limit while someone is watching, the stream stops within about a minute. A change to the ratings or blocked titles applies to the next thing they play. A restricted profile also cannot open the owner tools, Settings, trailers, title requests or Space Saver.

On the phone, the same controls are under Owner tools › Family & sharing.

If something goes wrong

Related pages

Checked against Beebo for Windows 0.1.79 and the Android test build 1.51-tester12 (build 62) on October 5, 2026. Found something that doesn’t match what you see? Tell us at testers@beeboentertainment.com. It is a plain email, with no form and no sign-up.