Calm for Chrome

Download / Install How to install an extension

CRX id

lfkkcdgmlmoakojipfnkelpjifglmffe

Description from extension meta

Stop mindless checking by taking a breath before you check! Facilitates alternative, productive ways to take a break.

Image from store Calm for Chrome

Description from store Do you find yourself mindlessly checking websites and wish you did so less frequently? Calm for Chrome will invite you to take a deep breath before letting you check a website on your “blacklist.” It doesn’t block you from doing anything but instead just makes you more mindful of what you are doing. If you realize, after taking a deep breath, that you were mindlessly checking a site, you can, at that point, simply close the page, or alternatively, take a healthier break offered via www.calm.com. We believe this extension will work better than a website blocker or an extension that completely blocks websites, because those types of extensions eventually becomes so annoying that we uninstall them. If the breath bubble is occurring too frequently for you, we offer a number of ways to adjust this extension. You can add and remove sites from your blacklist. You can also make the bubble occur a smaller percent of the time (e.g., if you only want an occasional mindfulness reminder), and you can set a minimum amount of time that must pass before a breath bubble is allowed to occur again (e.g., if once you start taking a break you want at least 15 minutes of time without a mindfulness reminder). Welcome to a calmer chrome!

Latest reviews

(2023-12-21) Genia Newis: you have to pay money just to relax?
(2023-02-11) Jeremy Gottfried: This extension is a great idea, but it needs one minor tweak to make it usable. The option to block an entire domain and subdomains instead of just the root, or even better-- the option to input my own matching pattern. Otherwise you have to add every page you visit to the block list. The domain block could be added with a simple regex matching /* and *.domain.com.
(2022-07-15) Tan Wei Wen Bradley (Asrjc): The premise itself is amazing, get people to think about what they are doing with their time when indulging in vices or just calming down and meditating right? WRONG! The execution I would say is not up to par with other extensions I have seen, which could be solved 1. When there is a bad internet connection like mine, the "breathe in, breathe out" loads before the actual moving circle, resulting in the circle being small when it says breathe in
(2021-12-12) fard: Okay, I added this to chrome to try to calm myself down. (I get angry too easily) But whenever I try to go to youtube, it took me to this "breath in breath out" thing. Like what?!?! It's not like I'm going to lash out at YT. It makes no sense. :)
(2021-03-16) Theodora Loufardaki: nice idea!
(2021-02-14) Anton: Good. Except it collect much information about me.
(2020-12-14) Lucilla Croci: Bellissima ed utile estensione per calmare la mente e ridurre lo stress, in pochi minuti, peccato solo, che completata la registrazione, la pagina dell' estensione non è disponibile. ( ciò avviene attraverso il mio pc fisso, non credo sia un problema riguardante il pc, ma l' estensione....).Inoltre il linguaggio è inglese, non modificabile. Soprattutto, nel reparto musica, è necessario effettuare un' abbonamento immediato ( pagamento ); solo qualche canzone rilassante è gratuita. Consiglio pienamente l' estensione di meditazione e relax " NimbusMind ". Buona giornata
(2020-11-23) Edward Bennett: I think the name says it all.
(2020-10-11) Wing Yan HUNG: The "continue to the site" option never appears. I opted for taking one breath but the bubble just keep going and there is no way to make it go away. Bug!
(2020-09-07) aissata landoure: I just downloaded the extension and i am loving it i am going to give it 4 stars! I am feeling much more relaxed.
(2020-01-29) Briel Dicristofaro: Love leaving this lifting review and having fun! Listen...x 4 It's my attitude towards meditating. I kind of resist it, like Picard towards the Borg. "But, Resistance is Futile." We need breathing control for a healthy mind. #Gmind Honestly, I am mentally disabled, so sitting and focusing for me...is like...tossing 20 items in a blender and saying, "Be quiet." Giving credit, my wife Nicole, who is an energy and intuitive coach recommended Calm the Chrome Ext. for helping with my manic episodes (pressured speech, scattered thinking, over-hyped) while I was working online. This app helped in a simple way. A nice, soothing screen, opens, where, you simply... ...give yourself a moment, to take a good deep breath in. And, out. Ahhhhhh. As a... Motivational Mental Health Speaker delivering presentations on Opening the Conversation on mental health. This is a fantastic mental health tool! I recommend it in my public speeches! MMM™ 2020 by G' is an Intro to Mental Health Tour Mindset, Mental Heath, and Motivations At all the conferences, I tell people, the brain needs 2 things THE MOST : AIR and WATER. This app helps with healthier, calmer breaths to calibrate your brain. Calm is very good for encouraging healthy, quick, meditative, breathing habits between click-happy web-browsing. Well done! Thanks, G' DiCristofaro https://www.speakermatch.com/profile/gabrieldicristofaro/
(2019-08-10) Lauren Usdin: I cannot get rid of it no matter what i do.. I did not sign up for it .
(2019-07-31) ٍ3asal 4ever: very calm
(2019-07-02) Piper Hendryx: This extension was great, but not for its intended purpose. I thought it was supposed to help me with mindlessly going on websites. It didn't, at all. I know there are settings that you can change to make the breathing thing appear with more frequency, but sometimes, I can't wait for the breathing thing to finish, so that was mildly annoying. One thing it did do well at, though, is make me breathe. It was relaxing to be able to take a breath, but the cons outweigh the pros, so after this review, I will be uninstalling this extension.
(2019-05-07) Virginia Houser: Helpful at the day job to slow me down and get me focused instead of procrastinating on silly websites. However, I'm hitting a bug where if I navigate away from the tab during the breathing exercise, when I return to the tab, the buttons to navigate away never appear. I have to refresh the page and go through the exercise again. I'd be fine if it reset so I had to go through my set number of breaths, but it continues beyond that which is a little frustrating.
(2018-12-28) Ed P: Love it! But could you please add the ability to block all sites on a domain? Not just the home page? I still end up able to access sites that are time-wasting from more specific URLs. This would be AMAZING and I believe quite fast to implement a regex or something.
(2018-08-15) R K: Nice website but there should be a choice to choose the color of bubble as Green color is healthy for eyes.
(2018-08-09) Lori Raymond: I have been using this app on my iPhone for years. It really helps. So many functions!
(2018-06-27) Emily Haggstrom: I just installed this and I'm loving it already! I do have one suggestion: I'd like to see a "Close tab" button along with the other options after the breath. I know I can just close the tab myself, but I feel like it would help me resist the "Continue" button if I could just scroll past it to a "Close" button.
(2018-02-24) Joachim Scholz: I just wished that the bubble would be displayed over a nicer background image, potentially changing every day
(2018-01-23) Leslie M: the icons stopped working a day after install for the Breathe with Calm for Chrome. It just reloads endlessly.
(2017-12-14) Valentina: i love this app <3
(2017-11-20) Bryan Barron: best meditation app around.
(2017-09-20) Joshua Horsley: I like it because it is simple. Stop, take a breath, decide if you still want to head in the same direction. It's ok if you do, just make sure it's a conscious choice!
(2017-09-20) Sander Pick: Super clever way to keep you on track and avoid those time sucking departures from the task at hand.
(2017-09-19) Shawna Feinman: WOW! I've tried using extensions that block sites and they usually just make me so frustrated that I uninstall them. This is the PERFECT medium - take a breath and clear your mind before continuing. It will definitely stop me from mindlessly going to Facebook and other time sucks now!
(2017-09-15) William Zeller: Like many I'm stuck on auto-pilot a lot of the time, and social networking sites capitalize on that and give my lizard brain all the dopamine it craves to lull me into a sweet, procrastinating torpor. This app gives me a moment of reflect to realize I'm on automatic pilot. And just like that I'm not, and can choose more wisely. Great idea! More tech to help us deal with tech is desperately needed (no sarcasm intended), and is better than going full luddite/amish/off-the-grid.
(2017-09-15) reena patel: I really love this app because it helps me be mindful with my browsing. Sometimes I log on to facebook habitually to relax but it helps to be reminded to breathe and that helps me relax anyways and waste much less time!
(2017-09-15) anson whitmer: Other extensions completely block websites, but I find that I just turn them off after a while or habitually engage in work-arounds. Because this extension makes it possible to go on after taking a deep breath, I don't feel the need to turn it off or work around it. So over time I think it'll have more impact on me.
(2017-09-15) Ryan del Ro: I needed this! I feel more conscious about my web selections. Thanks!
(2017-09-15) Maya Metrikin: This extension is great! I really like that it doesn't completely block the website but instead gives you a chance to breathe and decide whether to continue. This will definitely help with my aimless internet browsing.
(2017-09-15) Henderson Lafond: I love the reminder to stop and breathe before going to certain sites - great extension!
(2017-09-15) Nate Macanian: My mother would approve.

Statistics

Installs

10,000

Links

Extension in store

Developer e-mail