Doorman — Mindful Website Gatekeeper

A hotel doorman for your browser. Answer a password or a puzzle before entering time-sink sites. Friction, not a wall.

**Doorman puts a polite hotel doorman at the door of the websites that eat your time.** Before you can enter Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, YouTube — whatever you choose — the Doorman asks for a password or a quick puzzle. It only takes a few seconds, but that small pause is often all it takes to turn an autopilot habit back into a decision. This isn't a hard blocker you'll rip out in a moment of weakness. It's **friction, by design** — you can always get in if you truly mean to. You just have to mean it. **What you can do** • 🔐 Choose your challenge: a password, or randomized puzzles. • 🧩 Ten puzzle types — a distorted CAPTCHA, Math & logic, Memory, Typing, Number sequences, Word scramble, Name the country, Name the flag, Spot it on the map, and Trivia — at Easy / Medium / Hard / Extreme. • 🗺️ Real geography: identify a country from its capital, its flag, or its shape highlighted on a world map. • 💡 Stuck on a scramble? Hints unlock as you wait — a clue at 10s, most of the letters at 20s, the answer at 30s. • 🎯 Protect any sites you like, each with its own settings and even its own password. • 🕰️ Schedule protection: set your default hours once — all the time, or only on certain days and times (e.g. weekdays 9–5) — and override them per site. • 🎟️ Decide how long a visit lasts: while a tab stays open, for a few minutes, until the tab closes, all day, or challenge every single visit. • 🚪 A deliberately hard-to-reach OFF switch — turning the Doorman off requires passing a challenge, not a single click. • 💪 Commit mode for when you really mean it: while it's on, turning Doorman off demands a gauntlet of hard puzzles — no password shortcut. • 🌐 Fully bilingual — English and French, including the puzzles and trivia (French mode adds France/francophone questions). Pick it in the tour, change it anytime in Settings. • 🎨 A friendly first-run tour and a classy art-deco design. **Private by default** Doorman has no account, no servers, and no tracking. Everything — your site list, your schedules, your (hashed) passwords — stays on your device. It never sends anything anywhere. See the privacy policy for details. Make time online a choice. Let the Doorman hold the door.