A hotel doorman for your browser. Answer a password or a puzzle before entering time-sink sites. Friction, not a wall.
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1.3.0
updated 16 Aug 2026
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About Doorman — Mindful Website Gatekeeper
**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.