Apps that stay closed
A disabled app is closed immediately, and every relaunch is closed again within about a second and a half. Discord Stable, PTB and Canary are covered out of the box; add anything else with the running-app picker.
Windows 10 & 11 · 64-bit
Disable the distraction.
Keep it disabled.
Turn off Discord and it closes — and closes again every time it tries to come back. Turn off YouTube and it lands on a blocked page instead of the feed. Set the lock timer and your own choices are out of reach until it runs out.
v2.11.0 · installer, no admin rights needed · installs like any normal program
Heads up: FocusLock is a Windows app, and you don't look like you're on Windows.
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No accountnothing to sign up for
Nativeno browser bundled inside
Offlineyour data stays on your PC
Buy FocusLock once
FocusLock is a one-time purchase: $0.99, no subscription and no account to create. Your licence key is also how you download the installer, so you can use it now or come back later if you need to reinstall. The same key activates FocusLock on up to five of your own machines.
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Paid. Here is your licence.
Keep that key somewhere safe: it downloads the installer whenever you need it and activates the app on up to five of your own machines.
What it actually does
Websites, not just tabs
A small browser extension (it ships with the app) sends blocked sites to a blocked page — typed in, clicked from a search result, or embedded in another page. Turn on the system-wide hard block and they stop resolving in every app at once.
Only the bad half of YouTube
Keep the videos you came for and switch off the parts that keep you there: Shorts, the home feed, the recommended sidebar, and comments — each on its own toggle.
A lock timer with teeth
Lock your choices for 15 minutes to 8 hours, or any length you type. While it runs you can tighten blocks but not loosen them, and FocusLock refuses to quit. Changed your mind for a real reason? One Unlock button ends it.
Ghost mode
Pins the window on top of your game or editor while never taking focus, so it can't swallow a keystroke. Constellations keep drawing themselves on the desktop underneath.
A money tab, because why not
Log profit and expenses, see the net for the day, month or year, and read a calendar where every day shows what it earned or cost you. Plus a list of what you're still owed.
Installing it
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Download and run the installer
It installs for your user account only, so Windows won't ask for administrator rights. Windows may warn that the app is unrecognized — see the FAQ below for why, and what to click.
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Pick what to switch off
Flip a toggle and the block is live. Closing the window drops FocusLock into the system tray, where it keeps working; turn on "Start FocusLock when Windows starts" so blocks survive a reboot.
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Add the browser extension, once
Click the 🧩 chip in the app's title bar: it opens the extension folder and shows the three steps (extensions page → Developer mode → Load unpacked). Website and YouTube blocking runs through it, and it keeps enforcing even when the app is closed.
What it isn't
FocusLock is friction, not a prison. With the timer off you can quit it from the tray; you could remove the extension, end the process in Task Manager, or edit its config file by hand. Nothing here pretends to be tamper-proof.
The point is that "just one quick scroll" stops being one click and starts being a deliberate decision — which, most days, is enough.
Questions
Windows says "Windows protected your PC". Is something wrong?
No — it means the installer isn't signed with a paid code-signing certificate, so SmartScreen doesn't recognize it yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. If you'd rather not, don't install it: that warning is exactly the right instinct for software you didn't expect.
Does it need administrator rights?
Not for anything except the system-wide hard block, which writes blocked domains into the Windows hosts file. The app offers to restart itself with rights when you turn that on, and works fully without it.
Does it phone home?
No. There's no account, no analytics and no update check. The only network listener is on 127.0.0.1 — your own machine — so the browser extension can read which sites you've blocked. Ordinary web pages are refused access to it.
Where is my data kept?
In one SQLite database, %APPDATA%\FocusLock\focuslock.db — your
blocks, settings and money log, openable with any SQLite tool if you want to
query or back it up. Uninstalling leaves it alone, so reinstalling picks up
where you left off.
Why is it so much smaller than most desktop apps?
Because it doesn't carry a browser around. The interface is drawn by the web engine Windows already ships (WebView2) and the rest is a native binary, so the download is a few megabytes instead of a hundred.
Mac, Linux or iPhone?
Not today — Windows is the only version that exists. The app blocking and hosts-file blocking are written against Windows.
iOS is a bigger story: an iPhone app simply cannot close other apps or edit a hosts file, so an iOS FocusLock would have to be rebuilt on Apple's Screen Time framework, which covers apps with a lock screen instead of closing them and never even tells the app which apps you picked. It's a different app wearing the same name, and it isn't built yet.
How do I uninstall it?
Settings → Apps → Installed apps → FocusLock → Uninstall, like anything else. Turn off the hard block first if you had it on, so no blocked domains are left behind in your hosts file.
Switch it off and get on with it
Get FocusLock — $0.99v2.11.0 · Windows 10 & 11, 64-bit