Skip to main content
Chrome Extension · by Degird

Set a Daily Time Limit for Any Website

Give each time-sink site a daily minute budget. Watch the countdown while you browse, and get a block screen the moment it hits zero.

Infinite feeds are built without stopping cues — nothing tells you the session is over, which is why "just five minutes" reliably becomes forty. Limiter puts the stopping cue back: a visible countdown on the page, and a hard stop when today's allowance runs out. Everything happens locally on your device.

Add to Chrome — Free
See How It Works

Free forever · No account required · 100% local — nothing leaves your device

A Budget, Not a Ban

Time Limits That Actually Survive the Afternoon

Limiter is deliberately small: one job, done without loopholes. Set a daily allowance per site, see it counting down while you browse, and stop when it is spent — no accounts, no dashboards to check later, no data leaving your machine.

Daily Minute Allowance Per Site
Live In-Page Countdown
Block Screen at Zero
100% Local — No Data Sent

Who It's For

Who Uses Limiter?

If a handful of specific sites quietly take your afternoons — and blocking them outright feels excessive because you genuinely need them sometimes — Limiter was built for exactly that gap.

People Who Lose Afternoons to Feeds

News, social, video, forums — the sites you open for one thing and leave forty minutes later. A daily budget lets you check them and still get the rest of the day back, because the countdown makes the cost of the session visible while you are in it rather than afterwards.

Students

Study sessions survive better when the tab you 'quickly checked' has a hard ceiling on it. Set the allowance in the morning and let the block screen end the session for you.

Remote Workers

No open-plan office glancing at your screen means nothing external interrupts a drift. A visible countdown is the interruption that would otherwise never come.

Developers & Writers

Deep work is expensive to rebuild once broken. Limiter does not block the reference sites, forums, and video you legitimately use — it just stops them from consuming the whole block of time you set aside for building or drafting.

Parents Setting Their Own Limits

A self-imposed budget on the sites you want to use less. Limiter is set by you, for you — it is not a supervision or parental-control tool for someone else's browser.

Anyone Rebuilding Focus

Start with a generous allowance, then trim it week by week. A budget you can actually keep beats a total ban you abandon on day three.

Anyone Who Has Tried a Full Blocker and Turned It Off

Hard blocking creates an all-or-nothing fight: the site you need for one legitimate lookup is unreachable, so you disable the blocker, and it stays disabled. A daily minute allowance removes that failure mode entirely — the site still works, it simply runs out. You get the lookup, and you still get the stop.

Core Features

Seven Things, Done Without Loopholes

Limiter does one job — enforce a daily per-site time budget — and most of its engineering goes into the ways a naive timer can be accidentally dodged.

01 / 07

Strict Navigational Limits

Give any site a daily minute allowance and Limiter enforces it at the navigation layer. When the allowance expires, the browser redirects to a block screen instead of loading the page. The stop is not a suggestion you can scroll past — the site simply stops being reachable for the rest of the day. This removes the moment where you notice you have been there too long and keep going anyway.

Simple Workflow

How Limiter Works

Four steps, and then it runs itself — every day, without you thinking about it again.

01

Add a Domain

Open the dashboard with Alt+Shift+L and add the site that keeps costing you time. URL normalisation means you add the site once, not each of its pages.

02

Set Its Daily Minutes

Choose how many minutes that site gets each day. Be honest rather than aspirational — a budget you can keep is worth more than one you disable.

03

Watch the Countdown

While you browse, the floating overlay shows the minutes remaining. The clock keeps running through single-page-app navigation, so scrolling a feed counts properly.

04

Hit Zero, Get the Block Screen

When the allowance is spent, the browser redirects to a block screen and the site is done for the day. Tomorrow the allowance resets and you start fresh.

Pricing

Free. No Account. No Catch.

Limiter is a free Chrome extension. There is no paid tier, no trial timer, and nothing to sign up for — install it and set your first limit in under a minute.

Free Forever

Everything Included
$0

no account required

Every feature, every site, every day. Limiter has no premium edition to upsell you into.

Unlimited tracked domains
Custom daily minute limit per site
Live in-page countdown overlay
Automatic block screen at zero
Single-page-app navigation tracking
Searchable settings dashboard
Alt+Shift+L global shortcut
100% local — no data transmission
Add to Chrome — Free

Limiter is version 1.0.1 and weighs 26.66 KiB. It is listed on the Chrome Web Store under Workflow & Planning, published by Degird in Faridpur, Bangladesh. The developer declares that your data is not sold to third parties and is not used for purposes unrelated to the extension's core functionality.

Full Feature Set

The Details That Make Limits Hold

Everything below follows from the same seven capabilities — applied to the small situations where a time limit usually breaks.

Daily Reset

Every site's allowance starts over the next day — no weekly carry-over to game.

Unlimited Domains

Track as many sites as you like, each with its own independent budget.

Per-Site Minutes

Different sites deserve different budgets — set each one separately.

Query-String Sanitising

Tracking parameters and shared-link suffixes cannot split one site into many.

Subpath Coverage

A limit applies across the whole domain, not just the page you were on.

Automatic Block Screen

At zero, navigation redirects — no willpower required at the decision point.

Remaining-Time Visibility

The overlay shows what is left, so a session's cost is visible while it happens.

SPA-Safe Counting

Feed scrolling and in-app navigation keep counting instead of pausing the clock.

Instant Dashboard Access

Alt+Shift+L from any tab — add a site the moment you notice the problem.

Real-Time Rule Search

Find a domain among your rules by typing, not by scrolling.

No Account, No Sign-Up

Nothing to register, nothing to log into, nothing to recover.

Featherweight Install

26.66 KiB — small enough that it never becomes the thing slowing your browser.

Privacy First

Your Browsing Stays On Your Device

A time-limit extension has to see which sites you open and how long you stay. That is precisely why Limiter never sends any of it anywhere. Everything happens entirely locally on your device: there is no external data transmission, no account, and no server holding a record of your day.

What never leaves your machine:

The sites you limit — your domain list is stored locally, never uploaded
Your time spent — counters run and reset on-device, with no remote log
Your browsing history — never collected, never transmitted, never sold

The developer declares that data is not sold to third parties and is not used for purposes unrelated to the extension's core functionality. No account is required to use any feature.

Why We Built It

A Time Budget,
Not a Blocklist

Infinite-scroll feeds are engineered to remove natural stopping cues. A book has chapters, a video has an end, a newspaper has a last page — a feed has none of these, which is why "just five minutes" reliably becomes forty. The problem is not weak willpower; it is that nothing in the interface ever tells you the session is over.

The usual answer is a full site blocker, and for most people it fails the same way. You block the site, then one day you genuinely need it — a message, a search result, a link someone sent — and you turn the blocker off. It stays off. All-or-nothing tools make you fight the tool, and the tool loses.

Limiter takes the other approach: give the site a daily budget instead of a verdict. You can check it, do the thing you actually needed, and then the allowance runs out and the day moves on. When you do want the harder version — full Pomodoro cycles with strict blocking — Degird also makes DeepCycle. Limiter is for the sites you want to keep, in smaller doses.

Budgets Beat Bans

A site you can still use for five minutes is a rule you will not disable.

Elapsed Time, Made Visible

The overlay restores the stopping cue that feeds are designed to remove.

A Real Stop

At zero the navigation is redirected — the decision is already made.

No Easy Loopholes

URL normalisation and SPA tracking close the gaps naive timers leave open.

Nothing Phones Home

All tracking is local; no browsing data is transmitted anywhere.

Set Up in a Minute

Add a domain, set the minutes, close the tab. That is the whole setup.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Get Started

Give Your Time-Sink Sites a Daily Budget

Install Limiter, add one site, and set its minutes. The countdown does the rest — and the block screen ends the session so you do not have to.

Add to Chrome — Free
Read: Limit Time on Websites

Free forever · No account required · Everything stays on your device