FocusTube

Take back control over your YouTube addiction.

Stop losing afternoons to YouTube. Keep the useful content and cut the rest. You open a new tab. Type Y. Hit enter. 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 1. Set your goals - tell FocusTube what you're actually here for 2. AI classifies every video as productive, neutral, or distracting based on your goals 3. When it spots a spiral building, it steps in. You choose whether to carry on or stop WHAT FOCUSTUBE DOES - AI classifies content against your goals and session intent - Nudges you when you drift, blocks when you spiral - Block specific channels anywhere from 1 day to forever - Set channels you want forever access to - Block shorts, hide your feed, hide sidebar suggestions and comments - Kill the dopamine with greyscale mode - Set daily time limits for total YouTube use - Focus Window: choose the hours when YouTube is allowed - Cap daily searches to stop endless browsing - Dashboard with 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 YouTube is actually useful and you just need to stay control. The spiral doesn't need a homepage, it happens through search, autoplay, and direct navigation. You can strip YouTube bare and still end up watching for 3 hours. FocusTube detects the behaviour, not just the UI. It sees when you're drifting or spiralling and interrupts the autopilot before you've lost the afternoon. If what you've used in the past 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 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