The Freedom Chrome extension provides our “green screen” on websites blocked by Freedom. When you visit a blocked website, you’ll see our calming green screen and be directed back towards your work.
On Mac and Windows devices, the Freedom extension is designed to be paired with our desktop apps. On ChromeOS (ChromeBooks) and Linux devices, Freedom connects directly to our service and enables you to block websites or the entire internet. The Freedom Chrome extension works with both our trial (free) and premium (paid) accounts.
We offer a range of extensions to help you improve your digital habits, including Pause, Insight, and Limit.
Thousands of people rely on Freedom every day to write, study, cook, design, build, play, think, learn, and find the focus to do the things that truly matter. We’re honored to help you.
For more information → https://support.freedom.to/getting-started/set-up-installation/browser-extension
Freedom is a good app, but there are numerous improvements that could be made and the company just doesn’t seem interested in them. The last major update I can remember was not an actual feature, but adding coffee shop sounds to the website. Off the top of my head I could think of a native linux app, password protection against removal, and a vpn or iphone configuration payload, but over time I have lost hope that we’ll see any major improvements.
This is a great product. I especially like the fact that it can block phone apps as well, and that I can have different kinds of websites blocked at different times (unblock gmail for just certain hours of the day, for example).
I have two Chromebook related questions. First, the Android app isn’t available for Chromebook, with the result that Android apps that I have blocked on my phone are still available on my Chromebook.
Second, for those of us with literally no willpower, can you make it possible to block chrome://extensions as some other website blockers do. Otherwise it’s too easy to decide that you *really* need to access one of the banned sites when Freedom is active, and just turn off the Freedom extension temporarily.
Quality app in general.
However, there’s one very annoying bug in the Windows app:
When you click on the Freedom icon during a session, a green box appears that says
“Your Freedom session has started.
##:##:##”,
where the last part is a countdown.
This box then stays on my screen regardless of what I do.
Fix this bug and I’ll give 5 stars.
no es gratuito, desinstalando
Nice! I have been using the paid version for some years now and is a great productivity booster. Not sure how many hours it has saved me. I’m using in all my phones and laptops. Thanks to the developers.
me a encantado
Worth the money for the premium product and also great extension, much love from Italy!
muy buena la recomiendo
waist of my time
When Freedom works, it is fantastic. The problem is that it sporadically won’t work. I’ve re-installed this multiple times on my laptop and after a week or so, the program just stops working, and the pre-scheduled time blocks simply don’t start. Same for the Chrome extension. I’ve tried re-installing, which fixes the app for a week or so… and then it stops working again. I purchased this a few months ago and probably won’t be renewing it when my sub expires.
(FWIW it works fine on my phone 100% of the time. It’s just laptop/ chrome I struggle with).
Prompts you to give email to start using it and then tells you that you have to pay for it. Wouldn’t have added it if I knew it was a paid application, and jesus christ is the thing expensive. You need to subscribe just to block a website. Move to china and they’ll do it for you for free 🙂
Requires account to use. The functionality could have been handled with a local file set-up. Not willing to share my data
It would be nice if the URL of the blocked site was chrome-extension://…/#url=https://www.facebook.com/… instead of https://blocked.freedom.to/ (without any further parameters). Otherwise, if you close and re-open the browser while a tab has been blocked, you don’t know anymore which website it was and can’t recover the tab. (The behavior should be like that of “The Great Suspender” extension, which has a different purpose but works in a similar way.)
Great product…when it works. Which is completely sporadic. Preset scheduled sessions randomly don’t engage at all, for no explicable reason. For example, you have a recurrent session set to start Mon, Tues, Weds, at 11:00 and it will work correctly Monday and Wednesday, but not Tuesday one week, and the next work perfectly, and the one after that, skip Monday, but Tuesday and Wednesday work. It’s extremely frustrating.
Prescheduled sessions also sometimes start at a slightly varying time, such as an 11:00 session starting at 11:06 one night, or 11:02 another.
would not block facebook
doesn’t work for linux
It’s really unreliable. It’ll work for me for several days and then just stop working. Moving to trash and reinstalling has helped, but who’s got time to repeatedly do that. It works consistently on my phone/apps. But the desktop version is a mess.
cannot run on my ubuntu desktop since they donnot offer ubuntu client
Freedom has changed my life.
Absolutely perfect for me, works on my ipad and the different browsers on my laptop. I run a business and manage social media for people in my spare time. it has enabled me to effectively separate the two. No more falling down the rabbit hole of wasted time.
I used a couple of productivity aids prior to this but none have quite taken me to level that freedom has been able to, commanding my college routine with the schedule feature on premium has been priceless to me , thanks Freedom
Freedom’s been a godsend for my productivity. It’s the only way I’ve been able to harness my ADD and focus on the tasks at hand. Kudos to the team.
Only works in conjunction with the main Freedom application, and it works perfectly. The green is pleasant and it quickly informs you that you’re trying to access a blocked site. It’s very useful when accessing distracting sites is more of a reflex/impulse than anything else.