Freedom - Website Blocker for Chrome

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The Freedom website blocker gives you control over distracting websites, so you can focus on what matters most.

Latest reviews

• (2023-08-27) Shvat Eilat: very bad, keep sending spam even though I blocked them thousand of times and cancelled subscription. the program itself doesn't work at all but refuses to be uninstalled so you get the feeling this is a virus all the time
• (2023-06-06) Francisco Guzmán: its paid
• (2023-04-18) George Bell: I use the cold turkey and qustodio for my windows desktop and use freedom.to and qustodio for my android phone. Using these 3 programs works to keep me off youtube and other sites. I really have been more productive with thses tools.
• (2023-04-14) A S: Arc Browser does not work well and websites are displayed without being blocked.
• (2023-04-11) Maxime: This is actually a paid extension. I would have liked it to be clearer from the Chrome Web Store page. I think a lot of your bad reviews may be users that never had any intention to pay anything but were still tricked to install the extension and create an account.
• (2023-03-17) Oli T: Best money I've ever spent, gave me my life back. Hope they add some new features soon though.
• (2023-03-05) Yazan Zaid: Dear Freedom Team, I am writing to express my appreciation for your excellent application. I recently purchased Freedom lifetime after trying multiple fully premium products (like Cold Turkey Blocker). Your application is worth the money. I especially like Freedom's iOS integration and the screen time application blocking features. However, I have one suggestion for improvement. I wish you could add the focus filters feature in iOS so that the syncing between Apple devices would be much smoother, especially using the focus filters as a trigger for Freedom blocks using the Shortcuts app. I understand that there are some limitations of the syncing states between iOS devices (It's not Freedom's fault). Furthermore, I have also created some shortcuts that help the syncing process between my Apple/Devices. I love to share them with you if you are interested. Thank you for creating such a productive and user-friendly application. Please keep up the good work! The only problem that the support team takes too long to reply if they reply to your messages. I wish they improve their customer service. Sincerely, Yazan Zaid
• (2023-03-02) Yazan Zaid: Dear Freedom Team, 1 am writing to express my appreciation for your excellent application. I recently purchased Freedom lifetime after trying multiple fully premium products (like Cold Turkey Blocker). Your application is worth the money. I especially like Freedom's iOS integration and the screen time application blocking features. However, I have one suggestion for improvement. I wish you could add the focus filters feature in iOS so that the syncing between Apple devices would be much smoother, especially using the focus filters as a trigger for Freedom blocks using the Shortcuts app. I understand that there are some limitations of the syncing states between iOS devices (It's not Freedom's fault). Furthermore, I have also created some shortcuts that help the syncing process between my Apple/Devices. I love to share them with you if you are interested. Thank you for creating such a productive and user-friendly application. Please keep up the good work! The only problem that the support team takes too long to reply if they reply to your messages. I wish they improve their customer service. Sincerely, Yazan Zaid
• (2023-01-19) Chris: need payment for everything UPDATE: This is an extra extension for the windows-PAID app which allows you to block Windows-APPS (which is very hard to find) IF YOU WANT A FREE version try LeechBlock which is very powerful
• (2023-01-16) Santino Pecorella: It's actually really good.
• (2023-01-05) Daniel R.: Hi John, any plans to make the ios expirence of freedom more like the app "AppBlock" where it blocks the app using the screen time feature instead of blocking the internet with VPN? I love the fact the with Freedom I can block all my devices at the same time
• (2023-01-02) Jorge Coj: Not able to use it without the windows app. My workplace policies does not allow me to install software just chrome extensions, but I cannot use the extension in windows without installing the windows app. Totally a bummer.
• (2022-09-21) C A L: Si vous utilisez l'application Windows ou Mac, cette extension de navigateur ne semble pas utile car elle ne fait qu'afficher "Freedom is active" quand vous cliquez sur son icône, et ne sert qu'à afficher un écran vert quand vous êtes sur une URL bloquée (ce que l'application Windows fait déjà). Mais le service (payant) de Freedom est vraiment super, est complet (multiplateforme), et mérite 5 étoiles 👍 Si vous avez besoin de mettre fin un bonne fois pour toutes aux distractions, c'est ça qu'il vous faut ! 😉👌 Pensez bien à passer du temps à essayer toutes les options de l'application, faire des essais et trouver les bons réglages pour tirer profit au maximum de ce qu'elle a à offrir, une fois que tout est bien réglé, ça marche super bien 😎
• (2022-09-12) José Alvaro Frattini Santos: its not free
• (2022-08-31) Anish: Installed and added this app because it was supposed to work on multiple devices. In reality, that means you have to set up a blocklist for each devices and start your session on each devices. Maybe I am getting it wrong but the UI is really throwing me off here. I signed in 3 times and I have spend 30 min figuring out how to set it up, without results. Please team, improve your UI because you are loosing users here..
• (2022-08-01) Li Pan: Is it free? no. Does it work? extremely well
• (2022-07-16) Luis Del Rasso: NOTE: you need a subscription to use this! They need to change the name instead of "website blocker" or add something in the description. Something to show its a plug-in for premium users. It's an awesome productivity service and definitely worth the money, and I hate to see them getting more negative reviews! I contacted the support team, very nice people and responded quickly, as I was having access to sites I initially blocked and was recommended this extension. Now my blocklists are working as they should and smoothly on all my devices! They just need to change the name or add something in the description and I'll change it to a 5 star!!
• (2022-05-03) Jazzmyne: Not actually free just charge for it in the first place instead of false advertising and making people go through a bunch of annoying sign ups just to reveal your lies.
• (2022-04-26) Gabriel Flores: I use this on my Android. But on my work windows machine, i wish this extension worked without having to have the desktop app running.
• (2022-03-28) Kiara Kal: Don't know what these reviews are complaining about? Read: Yes, it is a paid product. You can try it out for a time, and if you decide it's not valuable to you... keep moving! It is valuable to those of us who love this force of Freedom that really sets the tone for when it's *Focus* time. Freedom Developers, love that you added this extension. It catches me by surprise how many times I try to access nonsense while I'm working, and I get to see the encouraging green butterfly. Subscribed now, and will continue to be subscribed later.
• (2022-03-10) Kyud's Journey Storage: Dice que no requiere tarjeta de crédito pero es un eufemismo. No la necesitas para hacer la prueba gratuita, pero es de pago. Y barato precisamente no es, para bloquear 3 webs tontas no voy a estar soltando pasta, no sé que se han creído xd
• (2021-10-07) Judith Pearce: I paid for the lifetime version, approx $64. I checked to ensure all features were correct and compatible with my laptop. Wished I'd read the reviews here as it doesn't work and for that amount of money it should work which zero glitches. I'm asking for a refund as I'm not wasting money on an unreliable product that sometimes blocks things and sometimes doesn't, and ignores my whitelist despite that being an advertised feature. I sent freedom the troubleshoot info and screenshots so now hope they'll do the decent thing and offer me a refund.
• (2021-09-26) Mike Alms: This thing is garbage. Way too glitchy. Most of the time it doesn't work. It's supposed to make you waste less time but the app wastes time with all the confusing, unintuitive editing features and its failures to function.
• (2021-08-12) Hikari: While the Freedom App and subscription is stellar, I don't get the point of this extension. Is this just a fat bookmark to the management page? Why isn't it so that I can add a current page directly to my blocklists when you catch yourself ? So much wasted potential.
• (2021-07-17) Loris Stavrinides: Worth it! This is definitely what I was looking for, and glad that I paid for the full lifetime premium license supporting the product's development. The app and extensions work perfectly across my multiple devices (desktop pc, laptop pc, android phone). I can block websites and apps on either OS. Most importantly I can set different schedule profiles. I use this to block access to work-related apps and websites when I'm at home relaxing during workday evenings, and full-days during the weekends, so the multiple scheduling functionality was what really made me consider this. Oh, and the green screen paired with the logo gives you indeed a nice sense of... freedom :)
• (2021-07-07) Max Miller: Paid product.
• (2021-07-05) Fathoni A. Musyaffa: Excellent on Windows and Android, but could not figure out how I could add Linux devices. I surely hope that the Linux build (at least for debian-based package distribution) comes soon, and not only in the form of browser extension.
• (2021-04-05) Sarah Webster: I love this! Worth the money for premium. Using it without issue across android, mac, windows and linux. Two small issues with the drop-down menu for the Chrome extension: 1. the days of recurring schedules that are listed are off by one, e.g. a schedule that runs on Saturday, Sunday will be listed as Friday, Saturday (The schedules still run at the correct times however) 2. "Blocklist" is spelt "Blockllist" Thanks Freedom! <3
• (2021-03-25) 식빵: 사용자분들. 이거 컴퓨터에 앱 깔아야 정상적으로 잘 작동될거에요! 확장 프로그램으로 아무리 설정해도 계속 잠금안되는데 앱까니까 바로 다 차단되네요~! 앱 너무 좋음...진짜 평생쓸게요..
• (2021-03-22) gustavo monte: Doesn't work. Tried using it on Twitch by setting 0~5 min . It didn't prompt a warning nor did send me to Freedom's green screen when time reached its limit.
• (2021-03-21) Nathan Foulk: Overall, a good app. But I desperately would like a better way to submit product requests. The Google form is a very bad system. Happy to change my review to 5 stars once I see some improvement in this regard. Heck, I'd be willing to pay much more for the subscription if we could just get some keyword blocking.
• (2021-03-10) Ethan Wolinsky: Freedom is a good app, but there are numerous improvements that could be made and the company just doesn't seem interested in them. The last major update I can remember was not an actual feature, but adding coffee shop sounds to the website. Off the top of my head I could think of a native linux app, password protection against removal, and a vpn or iphone configuration payload, but over time I have lost hope that we'll see any major improvements.
• (2021-02-03) Robert Goulding: This is a great product. I especially like the fact that it can block phone apps as well, and that I can have different kinds of websites blocked at different times (unblock gmail for just certain hours of the day, for example). I have two Chromebook related questions. First, the Android app isn't available for Chromebook, with the result that Android apps that I have blocked on my phone are still available on my Chromebook. Second, for those of us with literally no willpower, can you make it possible to block chrome://extensions as some other website blockers do. Otherwise it's too easy to decide that you *really* need to access one of the banned sites when Freedom is active, and just turn off the Freedom extension temporarily.
• (2021-01-25) Ian Erhard: Quality app in general. However, there's one very annoying bug in the Windows app: When you click on the Freedom icon during a session, a green box appears that says "Your Freedom session has started. ##:##:##", where the last part is a countdown. This box then stays on my screen regardless of what I do. Fix this bug and I'll give 5 stars.
• (2021-01-20) Javier Solis Flores: no es gratuito, desinstalando
• (2020-10-19) sojy john: Nice! I have been using the paid version for some years now and is a great productivity booster. Not sure how many hours it has saved me. I'm using in all my phones and laptops. Thanks to the developers.
• (2020-08-15) Colorful Vacation Girl: I prefer Blocksite over freedom because it's free and the setting page is too complicated for me. Plus it does have motivational pictures. I like your other products better than Freedom. I love Limit, Pause, and Insight but this was a very disappointing
• (2020-08-10) Sonaly Espinoza Zuñiga: me a encantado
• (2020-08-05) Dylan Benotto: Worth the money for the premium product and also great extension, much love from Italy!
• (2020-07-06) Amixters J G: muy buena la recomiendo
• (2020-04-15) "Make sure that the Freedom app is downloaded and running on your Mac or Windows computer" Does the Chrome extension need the app running on my computer?
• (2020-04-12) gideonsward: waist of my time
• (2019-11-25) Jenna Guffogg: When Freedom works, it is fantastic. The problem is that it sporadically won't work. I've re-installed this multiple times on my laptop and after a week or so, the program just stops working, and the pre-scheduled time blocks simply don't start. Same for the Chrome extension. I've tried re-installing, which fixes the app for a week or so... and then it stops working again. I purchased this a few months ago and probably won't be renewing it when my sub expires. (FWIW it works fine on my phone 100% of the time. It's just laptop/ chrome I struggle with).
• (2019-08-09) Blaise Mathai: Prompts you to give email to start using it and then tells you that you have to pay for it. Wouldn't have added it if I knew it was a paid application, and jesus christ is the thing expensive. You need to subscribe just to block a website. Move to china and they'll do it for you for free :-)
• (2019-08-01) Fritz Wegen: Requires account to use. The functionality could have been handled with a local file set-up. Not willing to share my data
• (2019-05-25) Jonas Vollmer: It would be nice if the URL of the blocked site was chrome-extension://…/#url=https://www.facebook.com/… instead of https://blocked.freedom.to/ (without any further parameters). Otherwise, if you close and re-open the browser while a tab has been blocked, you don't know anymore which website it was and can't recover the tab. (The behavior should be like that of "The Great Suspender" extension, which has a different purpose but works in a similar way.)
• (2018-12-02) A C: Great product...when it works. Which is completely sporadic. Preset scheduled sessions randomly don't engage at all, for no explicable reason. For example, you have a recurrent session set to start Mon, Tues, Weds, at 11:00 and it will work correctly Monday and Wednesday, but not Tuesday one week, and the next work perfectly, and the one after that, skip Monday, but Tuesday and Wednesday work. It's extremely frustrating. Prescheduled sessions also sometimes start at a slightly varying time, such as an 11:00 session starting at 11:06 one night, or 11:02 another.
• (2018-08-07) 1 2: would not block facebook
• (2018-02-25) Anurag Sharma: doesn't work for linux
• (2017-05-25) Public Email: It's really unreliable. It'll work for me for several days and then just stop working. Moving to trash and reinstalling has helped, but who's got time to repeatedly do that. It works consistently on my phone/apps. But the desktop version is a mess.