FocusTube

Take back control over your YouTube addiction.

Break your YouTube addiction. Keep watching what's useful. Cut out what isn't. You open a new tab. Type Y. Hit enter. You didn't plan to. An hour later you've watched six videos that had nothing to do with why you sat down. You tell yourself it was planned but you know it wasn't. FocusTube is a Chrome extension that detects when your YouTube session turns from intentional to compulsive, and steps in before you lose the evening. HOW IT WORKS Tell FocusTube your goals and your weak spots. It uses AI to classify every video you watch as productive, neutral, or distracting based on what you set. When it spots a spiral building, it steps in. You choose whether to carry on or stop. WHAT FOCUSTUBE DOES · Detects spiral patterns across your full session, not individual videos · AI classifies content against your goals and flagged distractions · Nudges you when you drift, blocks when you spiral · Block specific channels permanently across all sessions · Set daily time limits for total YouTube use · Set a Focus Window: choose the hours when YouTube is allowed · Hide homepage recommendations and sidebar suggestions · Track and limit YouTube Shorts separately · Cap daily searches to stop endless browsing · Dashboard showing watch patterns, focus score, and time by content type WHY FOCUSTUBE IS DIFFERENT Most YouTube tools hide the feed or block the whole site. But in reality YouTube is useful, you can learn loads, you want to use YouTube, you just want to keep control. The spiral doesn't need a homepage. It happens through search, autoplay, and direct navigation. You can strip YouTube bare and still watch for 3 hours. FocusTube detects the behaviour, not just the UI. It sees when you're drifting and interrupts the autopilot before you've lost the afternoon. If what you're using now worked, you wouldn't be reading this. PRICING · 14-day free trial, full access, no credit card · Pro: $5.99/month or $49.99/year (save $22) · Lifetime: $99, one payment, never pay again · Cancel anytime YOUR DATA FocusTube stores your goals, settings, and watch patterns securely. Your data is never sold or used for ads. Classification uses your goals only. No browsing history is shared or stored beyond what's needed to detect patterns. Full privacy policy at focustube.co.uk/privacy.