Flowt - Distraction Blocker for YouTube

Flowt is a distraction blocker for YouTube. It hides the home feed, Shorts, recommendations, comments, autoplay and end screens, so you watch the video you came for and nothing else. The system is designed to keep you scrolling. Flowt removes the parts that pull you into the next video, and keeps the parts you actually need: search, your subscriptions and the video you opened. Use it to study, work, or simply spend less time on YouTube. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY FLOWT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • A focused, minimal YouTube with no endless feed • Block YouTube Shorts completely, or just hide them • Hide YouTube recommendations and the "Up next" sidebar • Stop autoplay so one video does not turn into ten • Optional PIN lock so you cannot quietly undo your own rules • 13 independent switches: keep what helps you, hide what does not • 100% private: no account, no tracking, no data collected ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUTUBE HOME PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Hide Home Feed: remove the recommended video grid from the YouTube homepage • Hide Explore Section: remove trending and category links from the sidebar • Hide Shorts shelves: no Shorts rows across YouTube ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUTUBE SHORTS BLOCKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Hide Shorts Shelf & Tab: Shorts disappear from YouTube navigation • Permanently Block Shorts: every YouTube Shorts link redirects to the home page, including links from friends, search results and bookmarks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUTUBE VIDEO PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Hide Suggested: remove YouTube recommendations next to the video • Hide Comments: hide YouTube comments with one switch • Hide Video Overlays: remove info cards, promotion banners and the channel watermark ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ END OF VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Disable Autoplay: the next YouTube video never starts by itself • Hide End Screen Feed and End Screen Cards: when the video ends, so does the session ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ APPEARANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Focus Mode: mutes the colours around the video for a calm, distraction-free YouTube • Hide Thumbnails: titles only, no clickbait thumbnails ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAKE SWITCHING OFF THE HARD PART ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • PIN lock: a 4-digit PIN before any blocker can be turned off • Startup lock: optionally require the PIN to open Flowt at all • Accountability mode: type a reason before turning Flowt off, and review your reasons later. They never leave your device. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Keyboard shortcuts for every switch in the popup • Light and dark mode, with ten accent colours • Export and import your settings (your PIN is never included) • Flowt tells you when a YouTube update stops one of its features working ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Flowt has no servers, no accounts, no analytics and no tracking. It runs only on youtube.com, makes no network requests, and everything it saves stays in your browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Students who use YouTube to study without falling into the feed • Anyone who works with YouTube tutorials and wants to stay on task • Reducing screen time and building better digital wellbeing habits • Breaking the Shorts scrolling habit Flowt: the free YouTube distraction blocker. Watch what you came for. Flowt is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.