Watchlimits

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Solve binge watching and unlock hours of lost productivity

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Description from store UNSUPPORTED --- Did it ever happen to you: you just want to watch one video and then end up watching for 5 hours and instead of being productive you go to bed late and wake up groggy the next morning being upset about staying up late again? Or maybe you feel like you would like to have more time in your life? Maybe your watching habit is silently stealing your precious free time from you and you could get 5-10 additional hours per week for this project you always wanted to do? With watchlimits you can both get insights into your watching and also set the limits that will work with your life. It's not about not watching at all, it's about not getting sucked in and watching more than you would like, losing out on sleep or opportunities to do other activities that are also important to you. FLEXIBLE LIMITS You can easily set limits for your time on YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and Crunchyroll. When video is not visible or not playing it doesn't count. You can allow up to 5 channels that don't count against the limits if you use them for productive purpose. If you hit your limit, watchlimits will stop you from spending too much of your time on watching until enough time passes. There is a lot of flexibility regarding limits, you can have different limits for different days or having limits for longer period like a month or a week. WATCH STATS You will find our more about your watching habits thanks to up to 30 days of statistic of your watching time. ACCOUNTABILITY You can decide if the limits are adjustable after they are exceeded or completely blocked. You can also password protect settings changes for an additional challenge of it you install this extension for a child.

Latest reviews

(2025-05-07) izzy m: cant make an account. so very uncostimzable (website is down)
(2025-04-16) Nitin Shanker: Really great extension, would work even better if I could customise the list of websites that could be blocked by the extension.
(2024-11-13) Natalia Rogovin: I love this concept, and really want to use it, but I can't get it to work because the website where I am supposed to make an account and pick which sites to have it operate on doesn't load at all. Do I need to go somewhere else?
(2024-09-06) Yejune Han: Love this extension, however every single Youtube title turns orange. Besides from that it's just perfection
(2024-03-09) Yipper64: Very good app! Its one of the few that tracks actual watch time rather than time spent on the site. Most of these types of apps gives me an issue in that I can often leave my youtube up without watching it, especially in another tap, and that cuts into the time I can spend on the site, even though I wasnt doing anything! This app thankfully fixes that issue. The main problem I have is that certain features promised on the app do not work. The "youtube integration" seems like a great feature, but I see no reason to limit it to five channels, and I would prefer that not be limited. But even as it stands the feature does not work for me at all, even with the five channels. As well as the time intervals. As I understand it these are premium features, but after trying a trail of the premium these features still did not work. I would also like to note that the customer service seems to be limited, I didnt get a response.
(2024-01-29) Balázs Gyurák: Promising extension, but it turns all YouTube video titles orange, so not going to use it. Please fix your CSS in the content script.
(2023-12-14) Facundo Zapata: "Allowed channels" in Youtube Integration section does not work. Selected channels' videos still make the Watch time tick. Please fix this bug.
(2023-08-15) Facundo Zapata: Great extension.
(2023-06-30) Qwerty David: This extension is great, however there is this problem I keep stumbling into. The schedule feature does not work for me at all. I've been setting a schedule that starts at 9pm and ends at 6am. I should get blocked out of youtube when the hour reaches 9pm, but this never happens. Also, the password protection only works once. I don't know if this is how it's intended to work. but I wish it would always ask for the password for changing any settings at any time, since I tend to always change my limits like 1 minute before I reach the limit. These are my only two critiques.
(2023-06-30) Qwerty David: This extension is great, however there is this problem I keep stumbling into. The schedule feature does not work for me at all. I've been setting a schedule that starts at 9pm and ends at 6am. I should get blocked out of youtube when the hour reaches 9pm, but this never happens. Also, the password protection only works once. I don't know if this is how it's intended to work. but I wish it would always ask for the password for changing any settings at any time, since I tend to always change my limits like 1 minute before I reach the limit. These are my only two critiques.
(2022-12-08) Lucas Szybalski: Great Extension. It helps me stay focused on a task and not get sucked into the next intellectually curious fun video. If you don't measure, you don't know. Take the challenge and install it today.
(2022-12-08) Lucas Szybalski: Great Extension. It helps me stay focused on a task and not get sucked into the next intellectually curious fun video. If you don't measure, you don't know. Take the challenge and install it today.
(2022-09-29) Ike Bischof: It's very well-made as far as chrome extensions go. The new side bar while you're watching is a big help. There are lots of features and customization options. It introduced me to the Pomodoro technique. It works on all major platforms, like YouTube, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, etc. It would be nice to be able to specify which platforms are timed or not timed, but one work-around could be to use different chrome profiles for each platform (one for YouTube, one for Netflix, etc)
(2022-09-29) Ike Bischof: It's very well-made as far as chrome extensions go. The new side bar while you're watching is a big help. There are lots of features and customization options. It introduced me to the Pomodoro technique. It works on all major platforms, like YouTube, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, etc. It would be nice to be able to specify which platforms are timed or not timed, but one work-around could be to use different chrome profiles for each platform (one for YouTube, one for Netflix, etc)
(2022-07-26) Armando Jimenez: This is really helpful! Now I know how much time I waste on the internet watching videos 🥲
(2022-07-26) Armando Jimenez: This is really helpful! Now I know how much time I waste on the internet watching videos 🥲
(2022-07-14) Suvojit: Helped me stop loosing hours to the YouTube rabbit hole ! Plus you can keep music running in the background without the limiter, if you listen to music on YT.
(2022-07-14) Suvojit: Helped me stop loosing hours to the YouTube rabbit hole ! Plus you can keep music running in the background without the limiter, if you listen to music on YT.
(2022-07-12) Marc Lou: You don't know how long you're mindlessly surfing the internet. Now you do.
(2022-07-12) Marc Lou: You don't know how long you're mindlessly surfing the internet. Now you do.
(2022-07-11) Iain Cambridge: A great little extension. This helps me realise how much time I'm spending on YouTube without being too in your face.
(2022-07-11) Iain Cambridge: A great little extension. This helps me realise how much time I'm spending on YouTube without being too in your face.
(2022-05-12) Tiago Ferreira: I love this extension. Is a great way to control my self from spending all my time on youtube...
(2022-05-12) Tiago Ferreira: I love this extension. Is a great way to control my self from spending all my time on youtube...

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