Compare Chrome extensions: StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites vs WasteNoTime

Stats StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites WasteNoTime WasteNoTime
User count 500,000+ 43,109+
Average rating 4.47 4.64
Rating count 7,431 851
Last updated 2024-03-17 2020-04-16
Size 8.66M 231.42K
Version 2.1.13 3.5.0.11298
Short description
Boost your productivity by limiting the amount of time you spend on time-wasting websites. Blocking time-wasting sites so you can be productive. Privacy conscious, feature rich, and highly customizable!
Full summary

You sit down at the computer, and you swear you'll be productive. Next thing you know, it's twelve hours later. You've checked your email, updated your Facebook status, blown through 200 pages of Reddit, read every article in your Twitter feed, looked up your favorite band on Wikipedia, vanity googled yourself, cyber-stalked your ex, browsed through all your high-school crushes' Instagram feeds, and lost a week's pay playing online poker.

What you haven't done is WORK.

StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.

It's highly configurable, allowing you to block or allow entire sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, specific pages, even specific in-page content (videos, images, forms, etc).

Problems? Questions? Suggestions? Effusive praise? Email support@stayfocusd.com

PRIVACY NOTICE: When you install StayFocusd, it will ask you to grant a number of permissions, including “Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.” This permission is required in order for StayFocusd to run on any site which you may visit—without this permission, StayFocusd would not be able to block websites. While this permission technically grants StayFocusd the ability to read and change data, we will never collect personal data from the web page content that you are browsing.

This extension is maintained by Sensor Tower.

There are many "web blockers" in the Chrome Web Store but WasteNoTime is the only extension that requires the minimal permission (accessing your browser navigation history only) to do its job. Other extensions like Stayfocusd would require permission to “read and change all your data on all the web sites that you visit”.

WasteNoTime is not only privacy conscious but it is highly customizable and feature rich.

  • Instant Lockdown: Allows you to focus on your work for a period of time undistracted
  • Per-site setting: Allows you to customize the time quota for a particular web site
  • Work hour setting: allows you to define separate time quotas for your work and non-work hours
  • +Links setting: Allows you to track time spent not only on the web site itself but on any link navigated from it. Super useful for web sites like Reddit or Hacker News.
  • Time Tracker: Gives you reports on what web sites you spent most of your time, for the past day, week, or month

Currently supported locales: English, 中文 (Thanks to 赖巍!) If you are interested in localizing this extension in your language, please send me a message at the support web site.