Aware: Time Limits for YouTube & Distracting Sites

See and limit the time you waste online. Daily budgets, a lock on Shorts, video caps and channel blocking.

Aware is a screen time tracker and website blocker for people who lose hours to YouTube, Shorts and endless scrolling. It shows how much time you really spend on distracting sites, sets daily time limits, and stops you when the time is up. Everything stays on your device: no account, no server, no analytics. TRACK YOUR SCREEN TIME • Counts the time you actually spend on the sites you choose, only while the tab is in front of you or playing something • A report by day, week and month shows where the hours went, with CSV export • A panel when you arrive tells you how long you've already spent today DAILY TIME LIMITS AND SITE BLOCKING • Set a daily budget per site, or one shared across all your distracting sites • When the budget is spent, the site is blocked until midnight • Limit the number of tabs per site, and close a site you leave open without using it • Modes for work, evening and weekends, switched by hand or on a schedule YOUTUBE SHORTS BLOCKER AND YOUTUBE CONTROLS • Shorts lock: watch the Short in front of you without swiping into the next one • Hide YouTube Shorts entirely, or show Shorts from your subscriptions only • Hide the YouTube home feed and recommendations, and cap how many videos you play per visit • See which YouTube channels take most of your time • Mark educational channels as productive, so learning doesn't count against your limit • Block YouTube channels so their videos and pages stay out of reach • Unsubscribe from several channels at once: Aware opens YouTube in a background tab and presses Unsubscribe for the channels you pick FOCUS AND SELF-CONTROL • Focus commitment: lock your settings for a set time. Flexible lets you ask out after a short wait; Hero has no way out until it ends • Toggl Track integration: while a Toggl timer is running, distracting sites close themselves • Optionally block distracting sites in incognito windows (needs "Allow in Incognito") PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your browsing history and time data live only in your browser's extension storage. Nothing is sent to the developer. The only outside services Aware contacts are Toggl (read only, if you connect it) and YouTube (with your own session, when you import subscriptions or unsubscribe). Aware is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.