Self Control -- Block sites and stay focused

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A simple web site blocker to keep you focused and enhance your productivity

Latest reviews

• (2025-03-29) Jimmy Jogalano: I am trying to get myself off of youtube, and this is helping me very much. Great extention
• (2025-03-03) Isaac Harding: This is the only extension that actually works that is free. I have tried others like "StayFree" but it doesn't work that well for online. I very much do enjoy the editable message that you can write for yourself. I found out that for some reason I deleted it and immediately got it back. Don't want to spend any time online without it.
• (2025-01-28) Abi Sea: Absolutely LOVE this app - but please bring back the skull when you try to sneak back onto a site that you've blocked. I loved the high drama!
• (2025-01-15) Robert Balicki: Best such app available. I've been reliant on it for years.
• (2024-12-20) Siddharth Agarwal: this was a great extension, really helped not getting distracted. But with the recent update, the sites added to be blocked are erased from the block list after some time. I cannot add the sites again and again for it to work.
• (2024-12-16) Peach kuns (peachkuns): IDK what they did with the recent update, but it stopped working. Doesn't block sites at all anymore, please to back to the older version or fix it it was perfect before.
• (2024-11-08) Parellax: best app of this type. chrome better not ban this extension. if they do im 100% switching browsers
• (2024-09-08) Nhật Nguyễn: the best one i could find on the internet. Dev should add routine blocking time feature
• (2024-08-19) M Khalid khan: Best extension! It keeps me away from social media that actually eats my productive time. God bless you
• (2024-02-21) James Adams: Stops you from opening a website like you tell it too, but sometimes it take a while after "distraction free mode" expires for it to give you access again.
• (2024-02-18) SAMARPAN sharma: best
• (2024-01-19) Lieutenant Simon Ghost Riley: please fix some bugs. add scroll bar plz
• (2023-12-13) B. Deniz Turan: Worked perfectly for a long time, but for the last month or so it's mostly half-working or just not working at all.
• (2023-09-26) Daniel Lemon: Broken and out of date. The UI doesn't even fit in the little pop up window.
• (2023-09-26) Daniel Lemon: Broken and out of date. The UI doesn't even fit in the little pop up window.
• (2023-09-25) Ashraful Rahman Sakil: It would be good if there was a crawling option, there are many problems if there is not. if it is static, if you input more sites, you will not be able to go down in any way. So the extension is Jose
• (2023-09-25) Ashraful Rahman Sakil: It would be good if there was a crawling option, there are many problems if there is not. if it is static, if you input more sites, you will not be able to go down in any way. So the extension is Jose
• (2023-09-19) Emily: Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while, so there's some bugs. I can't change the hours slot, and the list of sites you've blocked doesn't let you scroll down to turn on self control, so you have to delete them, turn on self control, then manually add the sites back. It's a life saver for studying, so I put up with these buggy aspects but if I found a similar extension that works better I would go to that.
• (2023-09-19) Emily: Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while, so there's some bugs. I can't change the hours slot, and the list of sites you've blocked doesn't let you scroll down to turn on self control, so you have to delete them, turn on self control, then manually add the sites back. It's a life saver for studying, so I put up with these buggy aspects but if I found a similar extension that works better I would go to that.
• (2023-07-28) Sara Wendelken: I love it. Just the tool i needed!
• (2023-07-28) Sara Wendelken: I love it. Just the tool i needed!
• (2023-06-02) no name: very good, but please allow to add more time in "Distraction free mode". like 7 days or month... at least more than one days...
• (2023-04-09) Ethan-Scott Hin: The "wildcard" blocking is absolutely fantastic - stopping me from even searching for distracting websites!
• (2023-04-09) Ethan-Scott Hin: The "wildcard" blocking is absolutely fantastic - stopping me from even searching for distracting websites!
• (2023-04-07) BEAN!: I have been looking for a simple website blocker to stay focused on my tasks and this one definitely takes the cake. Great work.
• (2023-04-07) BEAN!: I have been looking for a simple website blocker to stay focused on my tasks and this one definitely takes the cake. Great work.
• (2023-03-31) Divakar Ghosh: Extension works great, and serves the purpose. Everything comes down to some will power at the end, but this does a good job. There is one glaring UI flaw - if you add too many websites so that the restricted pattern list exceeds the size of the extension box, you cannot access the button to start the focus period, as there is no scroll functionality to scroll below. Secondly, some flexibility in adjusting the focus period, or patters similar to a Pomodoro timer would be nice.
• (2023-03-31) Divakar Ghosh: Extension works great, and serves the purpose. Everything comes down to some will power at the end, but this does a good job. There is one glaring UI flaw - if you add too many websites so that the restricted pattern list exceeds the size of the extension box, you cannot access the button to start the focus period, as there is no scroll functionality to scroll below. Secondly, some flexibility in adjusting the focus period, or patters similar to a Pomodoro timer would be nice.
• (2023-03-18) Jasper Fadden: Lifechanging extension. I've previously been using stayfocusd for the past 2 years to stay off distracting websites, but I quickly found a flaw in that extension that allows meesing around with inactive tabs by dragging another one into focus (allows full scrolling of sites like reddit and watching sites like youtube). I tried to shift to freedom, but they don't allow any wildcards or anything. This extension both blocks inactive tabs (making it pretty much impossible to get around), AND allows "wildcard" bloccking of specific prases in urls. I can block specific channels in youtube but not others (ex, allow a youtube playlist but nothing else), ealsily block all reddit mirrors, and all of this pushes me to avoid them cold turkey. It's wonderful, and it's really forced me to actually improve my life over the past week. Tip for people who try disabling or uninstalling the protection: You can make it impossible to install by messing with the registry to think its installed by an administrator (here's a website displaying an example: https://www.alphr.com/prevent-chrome-extensions-removed/). Do the process, restart your computer, and as long as you can't download any browsers (easily done by blocking their download urls!), you are pretty much completely stuck with this extension. The only issue I have is that the "Distraction Free Mode" (which just so you know, can be accessed with a large bock list by typing in random junk in the text field and not getting any results), only can last for a maximum of 24 hours. I'd really like to just prevent changes for more like 50 days, but putting the reset time in the night I don't tend to exploit it. Overall an absolutely amazing extension. With some slightly weird stuff happening to stayfocusd right now, I can't recommend it enough. It lacks a lot of fancy functionality (which I hope might be added in later updates), but it does what it needs to very well.
• (2023-03-18) Jasper Fadden: Lifechanging extension. I've previously been using stayfocusd for the past 2 years to stay off distracting websites, but I quickly found a flaw in that extension that allows meesing around with inactive tabs by dragging another one into focus (allows full scrolling of sites like reddit and watching sites like youtube). I tried to shift to freedom, but they don't allow any wildcards or anything. This extension both blocks inactive tabs (making it pretty much impossible to get around), AND allows "wildcard" bloccking of specific prases in urls. I can block specific channels in youtube but not others (ex, allow a youtube playlist but nothing else), ealsily block all reddit mirrors, and all of this pushes me to avoid them cold turkey. It's wonderful, and it's really forced me to actually improve my life over the past week. Tip for people who try disabling or uninstalling the protection: You can make it impossible to install by messing with the registry to think its installed by an administrator (here's a website displaying an example: https://www.alphr.com/prevent-chrome-extensions-removed/). Do the process, restart your computer, and as long as you can't download any browsers (easily done by blocking their download urls!), you are pretty much completely stuck with this extension. The only issue I have is that the "Distraction Free Mode" (which just so you know, can be accessed with a large bock list by typing in random junk in the text field and not getting any results), only can last for a maximum of 24 hours. I'd really like to just prevent changes for more like 50 days, but putting the reset time in the night I don't tend to exploit it. Overall an absolutely amazing extension. With some slightly weird stuff happening to stayfocusd right now, I can't recommend it enough. It lacks a lot of fancy functionality (which I hope might be added in later updates), but it does what it needs to very well.
• (2022-10-07) Reece Harding: GREAT - at times it is not possible to start session if too many apps are added to ban list (MacBook Air)
• (2022-10-07) Reece Harding: GREAT - at times it is not possible to start session if too many apps are added to ban list (MacBook Air)
• (2022-08-03) David Becerra: I love this extension to block my websites for as long as I want. I'll give it 5 stars if it had some scroll bar to put more than 6 websites there. If you put that many websites, you can't press the button to begin.
• (2022-08-03) David Becerra: I love this extension to block my websites for as long as I want. I'll give it 5 stars if it had some scroll bar to put more than 6 websites there. If you put that many websites, you can't press the button to begin.
• (2022-06-19) Adil Mohammed: I cant change the hours slot but apart from that this is exactly what i was searching for
• (2022-06-19) Adil Mohammed: I cant change the hours slot but apart from that this is exactly what i was searching for
• (2022-04-18) もか: its really nice but then could you change the quotes to custom ones that we can make ourself or choices to choose? aaaaaaand also make it work in the igconto mode please
• (2022-04-18) もか: its really nice but then could you change the quotes to custom ones that we can make ourself or choices to choose? aaaaaaand also make it work in the igconto mode please
• (2022-02-24) OgSwisszyed: The UI is really bad like really bad, once i put in few website that i don't want to get distracted it can't be scroll down to change or activate the damn thing, so i don't recomend it at all
• (2022-02-24) OgSwisszyed: The UI is really bad like really bad, once i put in few website that i don't want to get distracted it can't be scroll down to change or activate the damn thing, so i don't recomend it at all
• (2022-02-03) A D: This is just amazing and funny, every time I click on YouTube that banner pops up and makes me laugh like hell and encourages me to focus on my work, Thank you so so much , a life or should I say GRADE saver. 🙂🥳🥳🎓
• (2022-02-03) A D: This is just amazing and funny, every time I click on YouTube that banner pops up and makes me laugh like hell and encourages me to focus on my work, Thank you so so much , a life or should I say GRADE saver. 🙂🥳🥳🎓
• (2022-01-14) Edwin C: Useless. Once you add more than a few sites/words to block the 'active' button is no longer accessible. People have been asking for a scrollbar to be added for over a year. Clearly the developers have left the room. Don't bother.
• (2022-01-14) Edwin C: Useless. Once you add more than a few sites/words to block the 'active' button is no longer accessible. People have been asking for a scrollbar to be added for over a year. Clearly the developers have left the room. Don't bother.
• (2021-12-02) Mintoo: op!!!
• (2021-11-07) Ondrej Tepala: I really like this extension as it helped me multiple times during my study sessions, but I don't know how to scroll through all blocked sites when I open it in the right corner. Like I have blocked about 8 sites and every time I want to renew the blocking process I have to delete few of them, click the block button and then add them back... it's a waste of time ngl. Did anyone experience the same issues or is it just me? And any chance that some of you know how to solve this problem?
• (2021-11-07) Ondrej Tepala: I really like this extension as it helped me multiple times during my study sessions, but I don't know how to scroll through all blocked sites when I open it in the right corner. Like I have blocked about 8 sites and every time I want to renew the blocking process I have to delete few of them, click the block button and then add them back... it's a waste of time ngl. Did anyone experience the same issues or is it just me? And any chance that some of you know how to solve this problem?
• (2021-10-21) Etta G: This extension has gotten me through so many semesters in school but now there's a glitch where the only the minutes, not the hours can be edited :(( Please fix this!! I love this extension but I can't use it anymore! I also would really appreciate a scroll bar, as everyone else has said.
• (2021-10-21) Etta G: This extension has gotten me through so many semesters in school but now there's a glitch where the only the minutes, not the hours can be edited :(( Please fix this!! I love this extension but I can't use it anymore! I also would really appreciate a scroll bar, as everyone else has said.
• (2021-08-18) Cam Joyce: overall good extension, but you should be able to stop distraction-free mode short.