Keep the lecture.
Lose the
rabbit hole.

No, and that is the point. Focusing App judges each page against what you said you are doing. In a Studying session the lecture and the tutorial play, while Shorts, the home feed and the off-topic autoplay never show up. The same goes for Reddit, Wikipedia, Spotify, Instagram and X: same site, different verdict, one page at a time.

The address is judged first. Where the address alone can’t tell (one video against the next, one thread against the front page), the content of what you opened is judged too, as the page loads. On feeds, each item is judged and off-intent items are removed before they render. An AI model makes the call, and off-intent pages are blocked before you see them.

What leaves: the address, the session or policy in force, and, where the address alone can’t decide, the content being judged, such as a video’s title or the text of a post. What we keep: the ruling itself (the address, any content that went out with it, the verdict, when it was made, and the session or policy label), with no account, device or person attached. No profile is built, no per-person record exists, and nothing ties a ruling to you. A verdict comes back, and that is the whole transaction.

Press Re-evaluate on the block page. The page goes to a slower, smarter model, and the block either lifts or stands. No settings dig, no ticket. If the same wrong block keeps coming up, be more specific about what it is judging against: Studying with Law chosen gets fewer close calls than Studying alone, and for a deployed policy, naming the tool gets fewer than naming the department.

Yes: hold the orb. Stopping early is a hold, not a click, and you set the hold length before the session starts. The filter keeps running with the app window closed, through a reboot included. If you want it to feel like a lock rather than a pause, see “Can I lock myself in?”.

Free for 7 days from the moment you create your account, no card. After that it is 9.99 EUR a month for unlimited use: unlimited sessions, every feature, macOS and Windows. Teams and schools pay 9.99 EUR per seat per month. You subscribe from the app, through a checkout page in your browser, and cancel from the app.

No. Focusing App runs on macOS and Windows. The desktop is where the work happens, so that is where the filter lives. If you are reading this on your phone, send yourself the link and pick it up at your desk.

No. The check happens where you can’t feel it: the address is judged as the request goes out, the content as the page loads.

No. A VPN sends your traffic through someone else’s servers. Focusing App is a local filter that runs on your own machine and covers every browser and every app on it. Allowed pages load directly. What goes out for a verdict is the address, the session in force and, where the address alone can’t decide, the content being judged.

Yes. Give the session no end time and set the hold as long as you like before you start. From then on the app shows only the session screen: no settings, no account page, no off switch. Relaunch it and you land on the same session. Turn the machine off, pull the plug, reboot it, let it sleep, log out: the filter is still on when it comes back. A session also ends when your trial or subscription ends.

Every browser and every app on the machine, because it filters at the network layer rather than inside one browser.

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