watchlimits.com

Solve binge watching and unlock hours of lost productivity

Latest Version

Version

0.0.0.24

Update

September 1, 2024

Size

2.75MiB

Developer

watchlimits.com

Watchlimits Extension

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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.

WATCH STATS

You will find our more about your watching habits thanks to up to 30 days of statistic of your watching time.

ACCOUNTABILITY

You can decide if the limits are adjustable after they are exceeded or completely blocked. You can also password protect settings changes for an additional challenge of it you install this extension for a child.

Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

Qwerty David (ID: 000000d791105f5a) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 06/30/2023 This extension is great, however there is this problem I keep stumbling into. The schedule feature does not work for me at all. I've been setting a schedule that starts at 9pm and ends at 6am. I should get blocked out of youtube when the hour reaches 9pm, but this never happens. Also, the password protection only works once. I don't know if this is how it's intended to work. but I wish it would always ask for the password for changing any settings at any time, since I tend to always change my limits like 1 minute before I reach the limit. These are my only two critiques.

Lucas Szybalski (ID: 00000040a2c3f81a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/08/2022 Great Extension. It helps me stay focused on a task and not get sucked into the next intellectually curious fun video. If you don't measure, you don't know. Take the challenge and install it today.

Ike Bischof (ID: 0000008ad5be71ea) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/29/2022 It's very well-made as far as chrome extensions go. The new side bar while you're watching is a big help. There are lots of features and customization options. It introduced me to the Pomodoro technique. It works on all major platforms, like YouTube, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, etc. It would be nice to be able to specify which platforms are timed or not timed, but one work-around could be to use different chrome profiles for each platform (one for YouTube, one for Netflix, etc)

Armando Jimenez (ID: 000000cb4b632dad) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/26/2022 This is really helpful! Now I know how much time I waste on the internet watching videos 🥲

Suvojit (ID: 000000170a2a3266) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/14/2022 Helped me stop loosing hours to the YouTube rabbit hole ! Plus you can keep music running in the background without the limiter, if you listen to music on YT.

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