Block & Focus

Set your work and break time and let this extension block the sites that are keeping you away from your goals.

Block & Focus Chrome Extension: Boost Your Productivity

'Block & Focus' is a Chrome extension designed for productive workflow. It enables you to list and block distracting websites for a set time, allowing you to focus on your tasks. Integrated with useful features such as defining break times, adding exceptions, and activating the timer with a keyboard shortcut, this tool also offers a statistics page to analyze your usage data. You are always in control with pause and stop buttons and you can also hide them if required. Each completed cycle can be marked with a custom sound if desired, thus making 'Block & Focus' a user-friendly tool for time management and productivity.

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Extension stats

By: Felipe Thome

Users: 20,000+

Rating: 4.75

(187)

1 ratings

Version: 5.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-03-21)

Creation date: 2018-08-24

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

background
tabs
storage
notifications
unlimitedStorage

Size: 587.78K

Email: fe*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 5,920 ▲ 32

Other rankings

#3302 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 7

#9 in focus keyword 18 ▼ 1

#11 in block keyword 83 ▲ 2

#30 in choose keyword 1 ▲ 4

#48 in website blocker keyword 61 ▼ 1

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Type a list of websites that you should not access when you are working and choose for how many minutes you should not access them. Then, the websites will be blocked and in their place will be shown a motivational phrase.

You can, also, choose if you want break time. That means, you can type for how long you want to work and for how long you want to rest (during your break you can access your blocked websites).

Features:

Block websites during a period of time defined by you.
Add exceptions to the blocked websites list.
Define breaks in which you can access your blocked sites.
Pause and stop buttons so you are in control of your productivity.
Option to hide the "pause" and "stop" buttons.
Keyboard shortcuts to turn the timer on/off.
Blocked tabs are unblocked automatically during a break.
Block tabs that were already open when the extension is on.
Show how many work cycles the user completed completed during a session.

User reviews

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Pros

Allows flexible blocking and unblocking of sites when needed, not just by schedule.
Simple, intuitive, and functional interface.
Effective at blocking designated sites completely.
Helps users stay focused and avoid distractions.
Option to hide the pause button to prevent bypassing blocks.

Cons

Cannot block certain HTTPS websites.
Some users found it complicated to use.
Issues with specific sites, such as music.youtube.com, not being blocked.

Most mentioned

Effective blocking of websites.
User-friendly interface.
Flexibility in blocking times.

User reviews

Total disappointment, useless. I set a pause to 15 minutes and it let me use the prohibitet webs indefinitely!!! It let me play lichess.org indefinitely and even youtube after that limit. This is totally useless.