Watchlimits

Watchlimits

Solve binge watching and unlock hours of lost productivity

What is Watchlimits?
Watchlimits is a Chrome extension that allows you to set flexible limits on your time spent watching videos on platforms like YouTube, Netflix, and more. It provides insights into your watching habits, helps you avoid excessive watching, and gives you back valuable time for other activities. Take control of your watching habits with Watchlimits today!
Stats
Users: 763 ▲ 4
Rating: 4.36 (11)
Version: 0.0.0.24 (Last updated: 2023-07-23)
Creation date: 2022-05-18
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very 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
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Summary

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.

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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
  • Helps users stay focused
  • Introduces Pomodoro technique
Cons
  • Certain features not working as promised
  • Limited customer service
  • CSS issues causing inconvenience
Most mentioned
  • Tracks actual watch time
  • Youtube integration not working
  • Schedule feature not working
Recent reviews
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.
by Yipper64 Yipper64, 2024-03-09

Promising extension, but it turns all YouTube video titles orange, so not going to use it. Please fix your CSS in the content script.
by Balázs Gyurák Balázs Gyurák, 2024-01-29

"Allowed channels" in Youtube Integration section does not work. Selected channels' videos still make the Watch time tick. Please fix this bug.
by Facundo Zapata Facundo Zapata, 2023-12-14
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Safety
Risk impact

Watchlimits is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Watchlimits has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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