Free today · paid tier coming

Set your dose.
It holds.

TimeIsShort blocks YouTube Shorts or sets a daily dose, times your work sessions and closes the sites that scatter your attention for as long as needed. No “just one more” button: what you decided in the morning still holds at night.

Add to Chrome → Firefox · soon

Nothing leaves your device · No account · English and French

TimeIsShort options page: Focus session in progress, progress ring and today bar
One purpose

Less time lost to short-form content

Four tools, one intention: cut the time Shorts and distracting sites take out of your day.

Shorts: blocked or dosed

Block them all, or allow only 1 to 10 Shorts a day — every swipe counts. Beyond that, a plain block screen or the page of your choice. Shorts also disappear from YouTube's home page, search results and menu.

Focus: sessions that run on their own

25 / 5 or 50 / 10, four cycles that follow one another automatically. YouTube stays closed for the whole session. A notification at each phase, an audible countdown, and quitting comes with ten seconds to reconsider.

Blocker: your distractions, your choice

Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Facebook, Twitch, Netflix, LinkedIn, Pinterest: check the ones that should close during your sessions. Each site is only allowed at the moment you check it.

Statistics: measured, never guessed

Shorts watched, temptations blocked, focus time, days without an attempt, a five-week heat map and a recap every Monday. No made-up “time saved”: only what was actually counted.

Screenshots

Wherever you need it

TimeIsShort block screen shown instead of a Short
The block screen: plain, with no “skip” button.
TimeIsShort menu open inside YouTube
The menu, right inside YouTube.
TimeIsShort statistics: seven-day bars and five-week heat map
Five weeks of statistics, all measured.
TimeIsShort Blocker tab: list of ten sites to block during a session
Blocker: ten sites, checked one by one.
Privacy

Nothing leaves your device

No collection

No server, no account, no telemetry, no ads. No network requests.

Stored on your side

Settings and counters stay in your browser; history is deleted after 35 days.

Minimal permissions

No access to all sites, nor to your tabs. Privacy policy

Support

A question or a problem?

An idea, a bug or a site that won't block: get in touch.

Write to us

By email: support@inotris.io

To speed things up

Mention your browser and the extension version, shown at the bottom of the options menu (for example v2.2.1).

The menu inside YouTube

Alt + Shift + S opens or closes it, on YouTube only. Everything else is set from the extension icon.

Decide once. Let it hold.

Free today; a paid tier will be added in a future update. In English and French, for Chrome, Brave, Edge and Firefox.

Add to Chrome → Firefox · soon