About Freedom
Freedom is a cross-platform website and app blocker that cuts off distracting sites, apps, or the entire internet during focus sessions. Blocking sessions sync across Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chromebook, so one session covers your phone and computer at the same time. Premium adds scheduled and recurring sessions plus Locked Mode, which stops you from ending a session early.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Blocks across every major platform, and one session covers your phone and computer together
- Locked Mode makes sessions hard to bypass, which suits people who override softer blockers
- Generous free plan now includes unlimited devices, custom blocklists, and app blocking
- Lifetime license option for people who don't want another subscription
- Privacy-focused: the Teams plan doesn't monitor or report on employee activity
- Long track record, in use since 2008 with millions of users
Cons
- Scheduling, recurring sessions, and Locked Mode require Premium
- Website exceptions work only on Mac and Windows, not on mobile
- Chromebook can't block apps or use website exceptions
- Mobile blocking relies on a VPN-style profile, which can conflict with other VPNs
- Little usage analytics compared with screen-time trackers such as RescueTime
Key Features
Website, app, and internet blocking
Block individual websites, desktop and mobile apps, or the entire internet for the length of a session.
Cross-device sync
Start one blocking session that applies to all your devices at once: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chromebook.
Custom blocklists
Build named blocklists, such as social media or news, and reuse them across sessions.
Scheduled and recurring sessions
Premium sessions start automatically on a schedule, for example every weekday morning or every night at bedtime.
Locked Mode
Premium option that prevents you from quitting a session or editing the blocklist until the session ends.
Website exceptions
Allowlist specific pages while blocking the rest of the internet (Mac and Windows only).
Focus music and ambient sounds
Built-in focus music, cafe sounds, and ambient audio to play during sessions.
Freedom for Teams
Team plans with a management dashboard to invite members and give everyone Premium, priced as a flat total rather than per seat.
Pricing
- Block apps, websites, or the entire internet
- Sync sessions across multiple devices
- Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chromebook
- Unlimited devices
- Custom blocklists
- Focus music and ambience
- Desktop app blocking
- Website exceptions (Mac/Windows only)
- Everything in Free
- Scheduling: sessions start automatically
- Recurring sessions through the week
- Advance sessions scheduled for later today
- Locked Mode
- Unlimited sessions of 2+ hours
- Premium perks: discounts on productivity tools
- Everything in Premium, billed annually
- Saves 40% vs monthly billing
- 7-day free trial
- Lifetime Premium license, no subscription
- All Premium features
- Listed at $199, currently 50% off
Best For
Deep work for knowledge workers
Block social media, news, and email during scheduled focus blocks so you can finish writing, coding, or design work without interruptions.
Managing ADHD and compulsive scrolling
Use Locked Mode and recurring sessions to put a hard barrier between you and the apps you open on autopilot.
Better sleep habits
Schedule a nightly session that cuts off the internet on your phone and laptop at bedtime.
Studying and exam prep
Students block distracting sites across all devices during study sessions, with focus sounds playing in the background.
Team focus initiatives
Companies give every employee Premium through Freedom for Teams as a wellness or productivity benefit, without tracking individual behavior.
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