HabitLab

Build better habits online! Tell HabitLab your goals, and it will determine the appropriate interventions via experimentation.

HabitLab - Build Better Online Habits

HabitLab is a free, open-source project from the Stanford HCI Group available as a Chrome extension. It aims at helping its users reduce their online time by experimentally determining the appropriate interventions. These interventions could be anything - hiding your news feed, showing notifications if you've been on a site for too long, pausing videos or more. HabitLab uses these strategies on the sites that users want to spend less time on and periodically learns from their effectiveness to create an optimized, personalized online experience.

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Extension stats

By: https://habitlab.stanford.edu

Users: 4,000+

Rating: 4.29

(31)

Version: 1.0.277 (Last updated: 2021-04-24)

Creation date: 2020-05-25

Permissions:

tabs
webNavigation
storage
history
idle
notifications
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Size: 5.76M

Email: ge*****@cs.stanford.edu

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 15,168 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#244 in Education ▲ 1

#40 in reduce keyword 4

#145 in spend keyword 6 ▲ 11

#158 in research keyword 33 ▲ 2

#160 in goal keyword 9 ▲ 3

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Customizable tools to block or monitor web browsing
Allows control over time spent on specific sites with reminders and nudges
Great for increasing awareness of browsing habits
Fun and engaging features like funny gifs when closing tabs

Cons

Not actively maintained and broken on recent versions of Chrome
Only a few nudges work, with many causing errors
Some users experienced battery drain
Generally has inconsistent functionality across different sites

Most mentioned

Not maintained anymore and broken on recent Chrome versions
Only a few nudges are functional
Customizable nudges help with productivity and time management

User reviews

Doesn't work

Alex, 2023-03-20

Extension is broken on Chrome (and Edge) 87, and doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. It appears that this extension was developed as part of someone's graduate school project and is no longer being actively maintained. Most of the "nudge" features are broken in the latest versions of Chrome which makes the extension mostly useless. Many issues have been opened through their recommended bug reporting process on Github but no one seems to be monitoring them anymore.

Bryan Wall, 2020-12-23

Great extension. Plenty of customizable tools to block or monitor your web browsing.

Hamdi Bel Hadj Hassine, 2020-10-29

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Extension safety

Risk impact

HabitLab requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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