StayFocusd – Website Blocker & Focus Timer & Shorts Blocker
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- Extension status: Featured
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Boost your productivity by limiting the amount of time you spend on time-wasting websites.
You sit down at the computer, and you swear you'll be productive. Next thing you know, it's twelve hours later. You've checked your email, updated your Facebook status, blown through 200 pages of Reddit, read every article in your Twitter feed, looked up your favorite band on Wikipedia, vanity googled yourself, cyber-stalked your ex, browsed through all your high-school crushes' Instagram feeds, and lost a week's pay playing online poker.
What you haven't done is WORK.
✦ What is StayFocusd?
StayFocusd, by Sensor Tower, is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. It provides analytics to help you understand and control your internet usage, ensuring you remain productive throughout the day.
⭐ Our Features ⭐
📊 Website usage history: Get statistics of your daily website usage history.
🚫 Configurable blocking: Block entire sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, specific pages, or even in-page content (videos, images, forms, etc).
☢️ The Nuclear Option: This powerful feature allows you to block access to websites for the number of hours you specify on the days you choose. Once activated, it cannot be canceled, ensuring you remain focused and productive.
📱Require Challenge: To change any settings, you must complete a challenging task. This reduces the temptation to alter settings, helping you stick to your productivity goals.
🗓️ Active Days/Hours: Customize the days and hours during which StayFocusd will restrict your access to distracting websites. This ensures that your productivity is maintained during critical work periods.
▶️ In App Blocking for YouTube: Block all distracting components on YouTube. Hide shorts, comments, recommended videos, etc.
🔒 Privacy protection: StayFocusd does not collect personal data from the web pages you visit.
🔗 Sync Usage Limits across devices: Connect Android devices and other browsers to view website and mobile app usage and limits in one place.
✦ YOU ARE IMPORTANT
We value your feedback! Please rate us 5 stars on the Chrome Web Store to help us grow. Problems? Questions? Suggestions? Effusive praise? Email [email protected]
PRIVACY NOTICE:
When you install StayFocusd, it will ask you to grant a number of permissions, including “Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.” This permission is required in order for StayFocusd to run on any site which you may visit—without this permission, StayFocusd would not be able to block websites. While this permission technically grants StayFocusd the ability to read and change data, we will never collect personal data from the web page content that you are browsing.
Latest reviews
- Anonymous
- well designed. reduces time wastage with browsing social media sites.
- Anonymous
- it helps. like those people who get rid of there phones, i simply don't have any social media on my phone so i don't even care about it. but its the computer that the problem i need to study but i open up youtube and im stuck consumed for hours and sometimes when i am studying i just open up a new tab and scroll. Anyways its great if you've got a youtube addiction :)
- Anonymous
- That's actually a great app , I just nuked myself 400 hours i'll see what it does
- Anonymous
- Genuinely the best app out there for those who don't usually comply to their own limitations. The nuclear option should be on every app like it
- Anonymous
- man this app is goated 🔥
- Anonymous
- StayFocused is an excellent productivity tool that helps me block distracting websites after a set time duration. The best feature is that once the time limit is reached, I cannot change or extend the duration, which really enforces discipline and helps me stay focused. Highly recommend for anyone looking to improve their productivity without the temptation to cheat on the timer!
- Anonymous
- Does not allow Users to create multiple block sessions
- Anonymous
- It does not block the apps. You can still enter them. It blocked inside app functions like reels and colors. Stopped collecting app usage time which is basically just lying to yourself about your consumption time. I really dont recommend.
- Anonymous
- life changing
- Anonymous
- It's really nice that I finally can study without any games disturb me.
- Anonymous
- best
- Anonymous
- solid, also has great features for apps like hiding thumbnails on youtube and disabling reels on instagram
- Anonymous
- nice for addicted persons
- Anonymous
- love this extention
- Anonymous
- Best extension for improving productivity and building a discipline.
- Anonymous
- This extension is absolutely fantastic. It is free, and it does the job well. I love all the options and levels of blocking you can set up for yourself. Would highly recommend to anyone who is having trouble getting stuff done when sitting at a computer.
- Anonymous
- This is really helping me focus and not get distracted.
- Anonymous
- i like it and the goofy messages
- Anonymous
- Totally! It really boosted my productivity and helped me stop getting sidetracked by those distracting apps.t about opening the distracting apps
- Anonymous
- the point of a blocker is to BLOCK WEBSITES. what the hell do you mean I can't set the allowed time limit to zero? it should NOT BE THIS COMPLICATED.
- Anonymous
- Wish I had impulse control but I don't, so this is perfect. And the messages in it make it feel encouraging and fun rather than a stern parent or cold robot telling you 'no'. It's not much but it really affects how this feels for me and that means the world to not feel shamed for using the blocker.
- Anonymous
- easy set up
- Anonymous
- just perfect for being productive ,can't imagine my studies without it.👌
- Anonymous
- I love the little comments it says when you try to de-activate it or add more time. Amazing touch!
- Anonymous
- Stay Focused is a really helpful extension. It blocks distracting websites and has helped me use my time more productively. Simple and effective tool for anyone who wants to stay focused. I give 10/10. excellent
- Anonymous
- Glitches a lot and blocks sites that have absolutely nothing to do with ones I block, please fix.
- Anonymous
- you're annoying but i love you
- Anonymous
- StayFocusd has really helped me cut down distractions and stay productive online. It’s strict but exactly what I need to control my browsing habits.
- Anonymous
- StayFocusd is a game-changer! This extension has honestly helped me a lot. My favorite part is the funny little notifications that pop up with phrases like “I’ll tell your mom” 😂 — they make me laugh but also remind me to stay on track. Surprisingly effective! The in-app blocking feature is a total bomb. It makes sure I only watch my study videos on YouTube instead of getting lost in Shorts or random content. As someone with ADHD, I can say this extension has made a huge difference in my focus and productivity.Big thanks to the creator — seriously, you’ve built something that’s not just useful but also fun. If the blocking accuracy improves even more, this tool will shine brighter and brighter.A very convenient, ADHD-friendly extension that I’d highly recommend to anyone (especially fellow neurodivergent folks like me)! 🙌
- Anonymous
- This extension would be perfect if it actually worked most of the time. On the extension, you can have only a certain amount of time allowed on a website right? Perfect, but when it hits 0:00, almost all of the time, the website just starts blocking every website you go on, even if you put the websites in the "white list" section. I guess it becomes confused and just starts blocking everything. This instance of it becoming, "confused" constantly happens for me, and I don't know why. Most people don't mention it, so it might just be a thing that only happens to me, but because of this, I can't give it more than two stars.
- Anonymous
- Comments are a 10/10 did all my work
- Anonymous
- coolest and the actual one
- Anonymous
- Keeps you on track and is HILARIOUS when you try to add more time. 10/10 did lots of work.
- Anonymous
- My favorite part about this extension is the In App Blocking feature, especially on YouTube. Kudos to the creators for making such a well thought out tool! Aside from that I do have one suggestion, maybe add an option to block the scrolling part on the Shorts, since sometimes there are some educational videos that we really need to watch, and I ended up having to off the Hide shorts feature.
- Anonymous
- ok
- Anonymous
- Works very well.
- Anonymous
- Saves me a headache with work and juxaposition
- Anonymous
- Very helpful extension helped me a lot to cut off distraction.
- Anonymous
- This app has helped me to avoid spending too much time browsing the web in order to focus more on getting needed things done.
- Anonymous
- Much needed extension for all, amazing product.
- Anonymous
- Does what it says it do, love it !!!
- Anonymous
- by updating do you mean deleting the extension and keeping it again? Also i love the extension it helps me so much with procrastination and productivity. also the little pop ups that come whenever you try to increase time on websites are so cute
- Anonymous
- Works well. A bit too well. It's annoying (in a good way). And free. It anticipates that you will try and work your way around the limits you have set and gives you a way to prevent yourself from doing that. Only reason I haven't given it five stars is because the StayFree companion app (a separate mobile app meant to sync with StayFocusd) doesn't have as many features on mobile. It is easy to sync devices to the same account, but it is too easy to disable limits set on your phone compared to on desktop.
- Anonymous
- Isn't working - after time left is at 00:00:00 (i.e. no time remaining) I can still access the site - it's not blocked at all and I get no indication that it is blocked.
- Anonymous
- The best, the best, the best
- Anonymous
- I like it however when I am studying and going to a page that I have to, it blocks it ( I blocked all games and sport scores and Youtube). It worked wonders, but it was inconvenient for that 1% of time.
- Anonymous
- Good
- Anonymous
- Not a good app. It creates an illusion of a virus, and even blocks New Tab. I was fiddling with this and had to spend 1 hour to find the allowed site list. And plus when I want to disable it, it says "cancel to make the magic happen", I pressed the "ok" button to disable it, but it directs me back to the first popup, hence it looks like a virus. Do not use this.
- Anonymous
- this is an awesome extension that I definitely will be using for a long time.
- Anonymous
- It helps me a lot with procrastination