FocusTube: YouTube Focus & Distraction Blocker

Stop losing afternoons to YouTube. Keep the useful content, 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 an accountability partner for YouTube. It detects when a session turns from intentional to compulsive, and steps in before you lose the afternoon. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tell FocusTube what you're here for 2. AI classifies every video as productive, neutral or distracting against that 3. When the drift starts, it interrupts. Carry on or stop, but not on autopilot WHY IT'S DIFFERENT FROM THE FREE ONES Most YouTube tools hide the feed or block the whole site. That helps until you're already watching something. The spiral doesn't need a homepage; it happens through search, autoplay and direct navigation. You can strip YouTube bare and still lose three hours. FocusTube reads the video you're actually watching. A hidden feed and a blocked homepage can't tell the tutorial you came for from the rabbit hole you drifted into. FocusTube can. WHAT YOU GET - AI classification against your goals and session intent - Holds you to the intent you set, not the one you talk yourself into 40 minutes later - Nudges when you drift, lockouts when you keep going - Entertainment mode with its own daily cap, so you can choose to watch rubbish, not all day - Settings lock, so you can't quietly raise your own limits when you want to keep watching - Daily time limits and a Focus Window for the hours YouTube is allowed - Search caps to stop endless browsing - Dashboard showing where your hours went - Plus the basics: block channels, hide Shorts, feed, sidebar and comments, greyscale mode FocusTube is a YouTube blocker for the videos that waste your time and a focus tool for the ones that don't. It blocks YouTube Shorts, hides recommendations, limits your YouTube screen time, and interrupts the addiction loop at the point it starts. PRICING 3-day free trial, full access. Pro $5.99/month or $49.99/year. Lifetime $99. Cancel anytime. YOUR DATA We never sell it or use it for ads. Classification uses your goals and the video you're watching. We store nothing else. focustube.co.uk/privacy