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Prevent procrastination by setting a daily time limit for your YouTube usage.
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Features:
- Countdown timer: visible in the extension icon and popup window
- Configurable daily time limit (found in the options page)
- Ability to customize your time limit for each day of the week
- Additional options for adjusting when the timer resets each day and whether to pause the timer when YouTube is minimized/out of focus
- Temporary override mode in case you need to watch a video after the time limit has expired (with a configurable override limit)
YouTube Time is open source. You can find the source code here:
https://github.com/ChrisSmith2/YouTube-Time
Changelog:
1.4.5
- Stopped the timer from running on music.youtube.com
1.4.4
- Added option to customize the time limit for each day of the week
1.4.3
- Added support for youtubekids.com (can be toggled in the options)
- Bug fixes and code optimization
1.4.2
- Bug fix
1.4.1
- Added option to limit the number of overrides allowed per day
- Made "Pause timer when YouTube is minimized/out of focus" option enabled by default
1.4.0
- Added option to change when the timer resets each day
- Added option to pause the timer when YouTube is minimized/out of focus
- Updated icon
- Bug fixes
1.3.0
- Fixed bug preventing time limit from being changed and made override mode more reliable
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Latest reviews
- (2025-02-19) Alexis Pautrot: Perfect extension. Sadly no longer supported.
- (2025-01-21) Wise: Was working nice until recently (Opera). Override mode doesn't refresh the page and allows me to watch the video; it takes me to the home page of Youtube and only allows me to look at thumbnails (because if I click on a video, it blocks me again, and so on). Rather annoying while doing browsing for work-related researches, since I now have to manually deactivate the app in my extensions tab.
- (2024-12-09) v0ldoy: Very good extension. It makes me make progress every day without being embarrased
- (2024-12-01) Griffin Booth: Great for time management.
- (2024-10-01) Vedansh: great but still there are some glitches
- (2024-05-12) Lesyk Mahula: worked well until recently. stopped resetting time automatically. so each next day I have to do this manually.
- (2024-05-08) Md Alamin: Override mode isn't working! You can follow the Limit extension and try to merge with your features. That's would be nice and hope will serve the purpose as well.
- (2024-04-19) GAMING FREAK: Very useful app for overcoming extended hours of consuming youtube content.
- (2024-01-10) Harshit GOEL: best extension i have ever used . they also provide when to reset option. it is very well thought
- (2023-12-31) Akshay Gadekar: App is good 1 Important Suggestion. is it when we override. it should restart timer in override mode. & to Highlight override mode you can switch app icon color to Red.
- (2023-12-05) Georgios Karantzoulis: This app really helped me with procrastination, really well done and thought out.
- (2023-11-23) Abhinav Kumar: Override system don't work.
- (2023-07-19) Sufi Jain: The timer worked well and i liked the settings. My gripes is that, after setting the settings you can't change it, and that the overides don't work
- (2023-07-19) Sufi Jain: The timer worked well and i liked the settings. My gripes is that, after setting the settings you can't change it, and that the overides don't work
- (2023-06-25) William Cutler: It's a good idea but MAN the override system fails so often, it's incredibly annoying. When I click "Override" I want to actually be able to watch my video. Instead, it keeps telling me my time is up. Even though I have 500 overrides left.
- (2023-06-25) William Cutler: It's a good idea but MAN the override system fails so often, it's incredibly annoying. When I click "Override" I want to actually be able to watch my video. Instead, it keeps telling me my time is up. Even though I have 500 overrides left.
- (2023-03-03) Godwill Valenzuela: I need this for the other sites!! (quora,facebook,tiktok ect..)
- (2023-03-03) Godwill Valenzuela: I need this for the other sites!! (quora,facebook,tiktok ect..)
- (2023-02-14) Mark: Perfect! lets you block Youtube on certain days, or time limit it. And lets you override it when you need it for something purposeful (but you have to be honest with yourself if you want to use that option). A gentle reminder that I don't want to spend time on Youtube on certain days, except for listening to music. Exactly what I needed!
- (2023-02-14) Mark: Perfect! lets you block Youtube on certain days, or time limit it. And lets you override it when you need it for something purposeful (but you have to be honest with yourself if you want to use that option). A gentle reminder that I don't want to spend time on Youtube on certain days, except for listening to music. Exactly what I needed!
- (2023-01-23) Steven “with a V for Victory” Kramer, PharmD: I don't mind watching one or two 10-minute video for fun on YouTube, but the issue for me is when I spend hours watching YouTube shorts. Having this pop up with a reminder message every time I moved to the next short helps me stop sooner. If anyone finds one of these just for YouTube shorts, please let me know! Thanks!
- (2023-01-23) Steven “with a V for Victory” Kramer, PharmD: I don't mind watching one or two 10-minute video for fun on YouTube, but the issue for me is when I spend hours watching YouTube shorts. Having this pop up with a reminder message every time I moved to the next short helps me stop sooner. If anyone finds one of these just for YouTube shorts, please let me know! Thanks!
- (2022-11-30) Peter Stearn: good
- (2022-11-30) Peter Stearn: good
- (2022-11-19) Mohisha Singh: this is such a good extension for helping you not procrastinate, its amazing!
- (2022-11-19) Mohisha Singh: this is such a good extension for helping you not procrastinate, its amazing!
- (2022-06-19) Huy: Awsome extension
- (2022-06-19) Huy: Awsome extension
- (2022-05-17) jan: I like the extension, it works well in general. However, the override function does not work in playlists including "watch later". After clicking overwrite, you get blocked again immediately. Sometimes takes over other tabs when youtube is blocked.
- (2022-05-17) jan: I like the extension, it works well in general. However, the override function does not work in playlists including "watch later". After clicking overwrite, you get blocked again immediately. Sometimes takes over other tabs when youtube is blocked.
- (2022-03-02) Toki Susu: I love the concept of a youtube timer and I think your extension is made very well. However, I've noticed that even when I'm not using youtube it still takes time off; even after I start. I've also noticed that sometimes when I'm in a different tab and the timer is done, that it tells me it's done in the tab that isn't Youtube.
- (2022-03-02) Toki Susu: I love the concept of a youtube timer and I think your extension is made very well. However, I've noticed that even when I'm not using youtube it still takes time off; even after I start. I've also noticed that sometimes when I'm in a different tab and the timer is done, that it tells me it's done in the tab that isn't Youtube.
- (2022-01-23) Urban Beaver: Would it be ok if you could add a generic timer to count how many hours, minutes, seconds you visit and browsing Youtube content in a day? For example a timer that says "Today up until now you spent "hours,minutes,seconds" on Youtube. And maybe have like a log of previous times up to say like three days before. Thank you
- (2022-01-23) Urban Beaver: Would it be ok if you could add a generic timer to count how many hours, minutes, seconds you visit and browsing Youtube content in a day? For example a timer that says "Today up until now you spent "hours,minutes,seconds" on Youtube. And maybe have like a log of previous times up to say like three days before. Thank you
- (2021-09-25) Remo Auväärt: Works great, but i wish there was a way to set a certain time frame, after which the limit will turn back on. I often find myself not using up all the time after the reset point so it gets left over for the next day, which i don't want.
- (2021-09-25) Remo Auväärt: Works great, but i wish there was a way to set a certain time frame, after which the limit will turn back on. I often find myself not using up all the time after the reset point so it gets left over for the next day, which i don't want.
- (2021-08-21) Scott Franz: The override function rarely, if ever works. Standard function works well enough.
- (2021-08-21) Scott Franz: The override function rarely, if ever works. Standard function works well enough.
- (2021-08-12) Ian Geraldi Cordeiro: When I pause youtube the timer doesn´t pause. If this is fixed I´ll change it to a 5.
- (2021-08-12) Ian Geraldi Cordeiro: When I pause youtube the timer doesn´t pause. If this is fixed I´ll change it to a 5.
- (2021-08-11) Samay Chandak: Thank You Man for this!! It is really easy to use and effective!! Thanks Again!!
- (2021-08-11) Samay Chandak: Thank You Man for this!! It is really easy to use and effective!! Thanks Again!!
- (2021-08-04) shreyas datla: awesome in almost every way it works well and all but can you allow the time to be changed more easily because when i have free time i watch some youtube but theres less time left from watching school videos
- (2021-08-04) shreyas datla: awesome in almost every way it works well and all but can you allow the time to be changed more easily because when i have free time i watch some youtube but theres less time left from watching school videos
- (2021-04-28) Bunsen The Burner: Thank you sooo much!
- (2021-04-28) Bunsen The Burner: Thank you sooo much!
- (2021-04-24) iii: It works. Most of the time, the override feature does not work well at all with playlists. Often times you override and it blocks you out again, making you override all over again until you have zero override attempts left and you still don't get to see the video. You could also extend the timer by changing the amount of allotted time per day, and re-entering the value for override attempts give you back your original amount regardless if you ran out or not. Just some ways I've found that bypasses the timer. If the extension could track the time spent on Youtube overall (+ # of override attempts), that'd be cool.
- (2021-04-24) iii: It works. Most of the time, the override feature does not work well at all with playlists. Often times you override and it blocks you out again, making you override all over again until you have zero override attempts left and you still don't get to see the video. You could also extend the timer by changing the amount of allotted time per day, and re-entering the value for override attempts give you back your original amount regardless if you ran out or not. Just some ways I've found that bypasses the timer. If the extension could track the time spent on Youtube overall (+ # of override attempts), that'd be cool.
- (2021-04-18) Hendrik Nigul: Good extension. There is an unintended feature (aka bug) on my chrome. It is possible to watch videos and bypass timer. 1. Open youtube.com → timer starts 2. Cmd+F (start finding, but do not close the dialog) 3. Switch to other tab → timer ends 4. Open previous tab again. Expected: timer starts Actual: Find dialog gets focus and timer is not starting.
- (2021-04-18) Hendrik Nigul: Good extension. There is an unintended feature (aka bug) on my chrome. It is possible to watch videos and bypass timer. 1. Open youtube.com → timer starts 2. Cmd+F (start finding, but do not close the dialog) 3. Switch to other tab → timer ends 4. Open previous tab again. Expected: timer starts Actual: Find dialog gets focus and timer is not starting.
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Rating
4.4394 (66 votes)
Last update / version
2020-11-30 / 1.4.5
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