Watchlimits

Solve binge watching and unlock hours of lost productivity

What is Watchlimits?

"Watchlimits" is a Chrome extension designed to help users manage their video consumption on platforms like YouTube and Netflix. It allows you to set flexible viewing limits, provides insightful statistics on your watching habits for up to 30 days, and offers options for accountability to ensure you don’t exceed your desired viewing time. With the ability to allow productive channels and password protection for settings, Watchlimits empowers users to regain lost time and enhance productivity.

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Extension stats

By: https://watchlimits.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 987 ▼ -8

Rating: 4.33 (12)

Version: 0.0.0.24 (Last updated: 2024-09-02)

Creation date: 2022-05-18

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
scripting
tabs
alarms

Host permissions:

https://www.youtube.com/*
https://m.youtube.com/*
https://www.netflix.com/*
https://www.rtve.es/*
https://www.crunchyroll.com/*
https://beta.crunchyroll.com/*
https://static.crunchyroll.com/*
https://www.disneyplus.com/*
https://www.primevideo.com/*
https://www.youtubekids.com/*

Size: 2.88M

Email: ju*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 31461 ▼ 255

Other rankings

#4554 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 9

#28 in limit keyword 17 ▲ 3

#132 in watch keyword 24 ▲ 2

#162 in week keyword 13 ▼ 4

#185 in like keyword 15 ▲ 2

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Extension summary

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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.

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

Tracks actual watch time rather than time spent on the site
Helps users stay focused and avoid distractions
Provides customization options and features like the Pomodoro technique
Helps users realize how much time they spend watching videos
Allows music to run in the background without the limiter

Cons

YouTube video titles turn orange for all videos
Certain promised features do not work or have limitations (e.g., YouTube integration with allowed channels)
Schedule feature does not function as expected
Password protection only works once and does not help in frequent settings changes
Limited customer service support for issues

Most mentioned

Schedule feature not working
YouTube titles turning orange
Limited functionality of YouTube integration
Password protection issues
Great for tracking watch time

Recent reviews

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?

Natalia Rogovin, 2024-11-13

Love this extension, however every single Youtube title turns orange. Besides from that it's just perfection

Edgar Han, 2024-09-06

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.