Reviews & Comments of Freedom - Website Blocker for Chrome chrome extension

Best money I've ever spent, gave me my life back. Hope they add some new features soon though.

Dear Freedom Team, I am writing to express my appreciation for your excellent application. I recently purchased Freedom lifetime after trying multiple fully premium products (like Cold Turkey Blocker). Your application is worth the money. I especially like Freedom's iOS integration and the screen time application blocking features. However, I have one suggestion for improvement. I wish you could add the focus filters feature in iOS so that the syncing between Apple devices would be much smoother, especially using the focus filters as a trigger for Freedom blocks using the Shortcuts app. I understand that there are some limitations of the syncing states between iOS devices (It's not Freedom's fault). Furthermore, I have also created some shortcuts that help the syncing process between my Apple/Devices. I love to share them with you if you are interested. Thank you for creating such a productive and user-friendly application. Please keep up the good work! The only problem that the support team takes too long to reply if they reply to your messages. I wish they improve their customer service. Sincerely, Yazan Zaid

Dear Freedom Team, 1 am writing to express my appreciation for your excellent application. I recently purchased Freedom lifetime after trying multiple fully premium products (like Cold Turkey Blocker). Your application is worth the money. I especially like Freedom's iOS integration and the screen time application blocking features. However, I have one suggestion for improvement. I wish you could add the focus filters feature in iOS so that the syncing between Apple devices would be much smoother, especially using the focus filters as a trigger for Freedom blocks using the Shortcuts app. I understand that there are some limitations of the syncing states between iOS devices (It's not Freedom's fault). Furthermore, I have also created some shortcuts that help the syncing process between my Apple/Devices. I love to share them with you if you are interested. Thank you for creating such a productive and user-friendly application. Please keep up the good work! The only problem that the support team takes too long to reply if they reply to your messages. I wish they improve their customer service. Sincerely, Yazan Zaid

Not able to use it without the windows app. My workplace policies does not allow me to install software just chrome extensions, but I cannot use the extension in windows without installing the windows app. Totally a bummer.

its not free

Installed and added this app because it was supposed to work on multiple devices. In reality, that means you have to set up a blocklist for each devices and start your session on each devices. Maybe I am getting it wrong but the UI is really throwing me off here. I signed in 3 times and I have spend 30 min figuring out how to set it up, without results. Please team, improve your UI because you are loosing users here..

Is it free? no. Does it work? extremely well

NOTE: you need a subscription to use this! They need to change the name instead of "website blocker" or add something in the description. Something to show its a plug-in for premium users. It's an awesome productivity service and definitely worth the money, and I hate to see them getting more negative reviews! I contacted the support team, very nice people and responded quickly, as I was having access to sites I initially blocked and was recommended this extension. Now my blocklists are working as they should and smoothly on all my devices! They just need to change the name or add something in the description and I'll change it to a 5 star!!

Not actually free just charge for it in the first place instead of false advertising and making people go through a bunch of annoying sign ups just to reveal your lies.

I use this on my Android. But on my work windows machine, i wish this extension worked without having to have the desktop app running.

Don't know what these reviews are complaining about? Read: Yes, it is a paid product. You can try it out for a time, and if you decide it's not valuable to you... keep moving! It is valuable to those of us who love this force of Freedom that really sets the tone for when it's *Focus* time. Freedom Developers, love that you added this extension. It catches me by surprise how many times I try to access nonsense while I'm working, and I get to see the encouraging green butterfly. Subscribed now, and will continue to be subscribed later.

I paid for the lifetime version, approx $64. I checked to ensure all features were correct and compatible with my laptop. Wished I'd read the reviews here as it doesn't work and for that amount of money it should work which zero glitches. I'm asking for a refund as I'm not wasting money on an unreliable product that sometimes blocks things and sometimes doesn't, and ignores my whitelist despite that being an advertised feature. I sent freedom the troubleshoot info and screenshots so now hope they'll do the decent thing and offer me a refund.

This thing is garbage. Way too glitchy. Most of the time it doesn't work. It's supposed to make you waste less time but the app wastes time with all the confusing, unintuitive editing features and its failures to function.

Worth it! This is definitely what I was looking for, and glad that I paid for the full lifetime premium license supporting the product's development. The app and extensions work perfectly across my multiple devices (desktop pc, laptop pc, android phone). I can block websites and apps on either OS. Most importantly I can set different schedule profiles. I use this to block access to work-related apps and websites when I'm at home relaxing during workday evenings, and full-days during the weekends, so the multiple scheduling functionality was what really made me consider this. Oh, and the green screen paired with the logo gives you indeed a nice sense of... freedom :)

Paid product.

Excellent on Windows and Android, but could not figure out how I could add Linux devices. I surely hope that the Linux build (at least for debian-based package distribution) comes soon, and not only in the form of browser extension.

need payment for everything

I love this! Worth the money for premium. Using it without issue across android, mac, windows and linux. Two small issues with the drop-down menu for the Chrome extension: 1. the days of recurring schedules that are listed are off by one, e.g. a schedule that runs on Saturday, Sunday will be listed as Friday, Saturday (The schedules still run at the correct times however) 2. "Blocklist" is spelt "Blockllist" Thanks Freedom! <3

Doesn't work. Tried using it on Twitch by setting 0~5 min . It didn't prompt a warning nor did send me to Freedom's green screen when time reached its limit.

Overall, a good app. But I desperately would like a better way to submit product requests. The Google form is a very bad system. Happy to change my review to 5 stars once I see some improvement in this regard. Heck, I'd be willing to pay much more for the subscription if we could just get some keyword blocking.

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.

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.

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 :-)

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.

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.