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On the left, real pages rebuilt live in this browser: the feed loads cluttered, then Attentify strips the promoted posts, the Shorts shelf and the recommendation rail, naming every call as it makes it. On the right is the actual extension, running live. Straight-from-the-browser captures are further down.
No setup hassle · your history stays on your device · open source, minus the AI · macOS and mobile soon
The AI reads where a click is heading and weighs it against the goal you set, so a distraction is gone before it ever renders. That's why one search opens and the next one doesn't: it judges the intent behind the query, not the domain against a list. The same read runs on a link before you click it, so the bait never gets its shot.
Every block you keep and every one you undo teaches it where your line sits, and that carries across sites. The things that slipped past it stop slipping. Updates ship continuously, so when a site rewrites its feed the blocking heals instead of quietly breaking.
The detailed record sits in a local database we never receive. To judge one page the AI is given four things and nothing else. No full history, no page contents, no keystrokes, nothing sold and no ad trackers. Switch the AI off and blocking still works with nothing leaving at all.
Add the Windows app and everything levels up. It's a chat-first focus engine for your whole computer, and the browser just plugs right into it. The desktop app is in beta: it works, and it is still rough in places. The extension is the stable one.
/shorts/* are gone. Everything else on YouTube stays exactly as it is. Synced to your browser.Grab the Windows app, or just add the browser extension. They find each other on their own, and the extension works fine all by itself.
Say it in plain English: "help me write until 5pm," "no more doom-scrolling," "kill Shorts but keep my subscriptions." The AI turns it into protection for you.
It runs quietly, adapts to how distracted you look, heals itself when sites change, and catches you when you try to wriggle out. You just notice the noise is gone.
These apps were built by hundreds of engineers to capture your attention. This is the AI that fights on your side instead. Here's what that actually does for you.
Type something like "I'm writing all afternoon, keep me off social" and you're done. There's nothing to configure and no blocklist to keep up. The AI sets the whole thing up for you. Zero setup on your end.
It only pulls out the engineered traps like Shorts, Reels and the For-You feed, so you still get your tutorials, your DMs and your subscriptions. You never have to give up a site you actually need.
The on-device AI notices why you opened a page and how far you're drifting, then steps in the moment you start doom-scrolling. You stop losing whole evenings you never meant to give away.
It fixes itself when sites change, and gets a little firmer if you keep trying to sneak around it. A gentle nudge first, then something stronger. It won't quietly stop working on you.
Tell it "no music videos, no rage bait, no gym influencers" in plain English and it's gone from your feed before you ever click. Your feed finally stops knowing your weak spots.
Everything you do is recorded locally and we never receive it. When the AI has to judge a page, it sees that one page's address and title, and nothing else. No trackers, no ads, nothing sold. You free your mind without handing over your life.
| Capability | Attentify | Freedom / Cold Turkey | Basic blocker extensions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Removes only the addictive parts of a site | ✓ Surgical | ✗ Whole-site only | ~ Some elements |
| AI understands why you're there | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Adapts blocking to how distracted you look | ✓ Real-time | ✗ Fixed schedule | ✗ |
| Block individual videos by title | ✓ Pre-emptive | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-heals when SPA sites re-render | ✓ <0.5s | n/a | ✗ Often breaks |
| Your history stays on your device | ✓ | ~ Varies | ~ Varies |
| Open source client, auditable | ✓ | ✗ | ~ |
| Price | Free | $3 to $10/mo | Free to paid |
Each pair is the same site captured twice - once as it loads, once the moment Attentify strips the bait. Nothing here is a mockup.
The app and extension are free. Every account starts with free AI credit. When it runs low, top up as you go, or go unlimited for $9.99/mo. What you are paying for is a service that keeps getting better: the classifier is retrained on real mistakes, new sites and new dark patterns are handled as they appear, and the app updates itself.
All the blocking, free. AI on credits.
Unlimited AI, no metering.
Focus culture for whole orgs.
Free, private, and running in about a minute.
The Windows app is in beta. It works, and it is still rough in places. The extension is the stable one, so start there.
Extension installs manually for now, while our Chrome Web Store listing is in review. macOS and mobile apps coming soon.
It can read your code and your files, but not the forty minutes you lost before you opened them. Attentify gives it that missing half, and the means to do something about it.
claude mcp add attentify -- npx -y @attentify/mcp
Works with any MCP client. Needs the Windows app running. Free, and no
account required to use the connector.
Publishing to npm shortly. Until it lands you can run it straight from the
source.
People are unreliable narrators about their own attention. Your agent reads what actually happened, alongside the goals you set, so its advice is about your day rather than about websites in general.
The connector talks to the app over 127.0.0.1, gated by a per-install token.
It makes no network calls of its own. Zero dependencies, one file, about 250 lines you can
read in a sitting.
Reading is the easy half. Your agent can also block a site outright, across every browser, when you ask it to.
Open source, AGPL, same as the rest of Attentify. Read the source
The app and extension are free, and all the blocking works without paying anything. The AI features run on credits: every account starts with free credit, and you can top up as you go or subscribe for $9.99/mo for unlimited AI plus more custom analytics. A subscription also pays for the part that never finishes: sites change their layouts constantly, and keeping detection working is ongoing work, not a one-time build.
Your activity history stays on your device. It is stored in a local database that we never receive, and the blocking and on-device heuristics run without contacting us at all. When an AI feature runs, that one page's address and title, your search text and your stated goals are sent to our backend and on to the model provider, because that is what the model has to read to make a call. Nothing else leaves the machine, and there are no trackers on this page. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is sent.
Those block whole sites or apps on a schedule. Attentify takes out only the addictive parts, like the Shorts shelf and the For-You feed, so you keep the useful web. And it adapts in real time to whether you're actually focused.
No. The browser extension works completely on its own. The Windows app adds system-wide nudges and an assistant that writes the rules for you, and the two sync automatically when both are running.
The Windows app sees every browser you use. It recognises 30 of them by name (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Opera GX, Vivaldi, Arc, Tor, Chromium, Yandex, LibreWolf, Waterfox and more) and tracks your time in each with no extension needed. It reads the full page address in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and Vivaldi, and can import your existing history from the Chrome and Firefox families so your analytics work from day one. The surgical element-blocking extension is Chromium-only (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, Vivaldi); it does not run on Firefox or Safari. Built-in rules cover YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Facebook and LinkedIn, and you can add any site just by asking in plain English.
That's exactly why it isn't all-or-nothing. Because it removes the junk and not the tools you need, there's far less reason to switch it off. And if you do start sneaking around it, Attentify notices and gently steps in.
Cats don't need logic, they just exist and we adore them.
The one at 4:12 genuinely made me wake the whole house up.