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On the left, Attentify works across real pages: it strips feeds, Shorts and ads, tells a focused search from a distracting one, and blocks gambling outright, explaining each call as it goes. On the right is the actual extension, running live. Nothing here is a mockup.
No setup hassle · your history stays on your device · open source, minus the AI · macOS soon
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.
/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 |
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.
Prefer browser-only? Add the extension for Chrome & Edge →
macOS app coming soon.
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.