- Kaizen Apps
- Focus
Kaizen FocusWindows 10 and 11Website blocker and app blocker for Windows, with daily time limits
Give any app, website or website category a daily time budget or a full block, and lock the whole PC at bedtime or during school hours. Activity tracking is free. Saving limits and blocks needs a Pro license.
- Free activity tracking
- Works in 10 browsers, nothing to install in them
- 3-day refund on paid licenses
Lock the whole PC at bedtime or during school hours
Lock hours are time slots that block all apps and websites. Set up to 4 slots for each user, and a slot can run past midnight. Free hours do the opposite: during those slots, limits do not count.
- Up to 4 lock-hours slots and 4 free-hours slots per user
- A full-screen lock on every monitor, showing the reason
- The same slots apply every day of the week
See where the time went, day by day
Each person gets a breakdown of productive, unproductive and neutral time, with a bar for every day and the apps and websites that took the most of it. You decide which categories count as productive.
- A bar for each day of the month
- Top apps and websites by time
- Download the report as a PDF, with Pro
Block websites, read the reports, run an office
A daily budget for each app and site, or a full block
Pick an app that is installed or running and give it a daily allowance, or block it outright.
Limit screen time on Windows, not only single apps
Alongside the app cards sit trackers for the PC as a whole.
Block websites, pages and channels
Add a whole domain, a single URL or one YouTube channel to the blocked list. An allowed list always wins over a blocked category. Pro
47 website categories
Block a category or give it a daily time limit for each weekday, instead of listing sites one by one. Pro
App groups
Group several apps so their time counts as one combined budget. A group can include website categories. Pro
Activity views
See time per app, window title, website and domain for a day, a week, a month or a custom range, plus a log of every rule broken.
Free to track, Pro to block
The free plan records and shows how the PC is used. A Pro license lets you save limits, blocks and lock hours.
Activity tracking and views. Blocking rules cannot be saved.
- Track apps, websites, window titles, active and idle time
- Activity views for a day, week, month or custom range
- One Admin and up to 2 User accounts
- Screenshots at the default settings
All limits, blocks and lock hours for one year.
- Daily limits and blocks for apps and websites
- Block or limit 47 website categories
- Lock hours and free hours, 4 slots each
- App groups and more User accounts
The same features as Pro, paid once.
- Everything in Pro
- One payment, no renewal
Licenses are sold through Paddle and the key arrives by email. One-year licenses do not renew automatically. Paid licenses have a 3-day refund: write to [email protected]. In an office, every PC needs its own Pro license.
Questions about Kaizen Focus
Is Kaizen Focus free?
The free plan tracks how the PC is used and shows it in the activity views, for one Admin and up to 2 User accounts. It cannot save a blocking rule: app limits, website rules, category blocks and lock hours all need a Pro license.
Can I use it as a focus app to block websites for myself?
Yes, with one thing to know first. Rules apply to User accounts and never to the Admin account. Set your rules as Admin, then do your work signed in as the User, where the limits and blocks apply.
Which browsers does the website blocker work in?
It reads the address bar in 10 browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Internet Explorer, Maxthon, LibreWolf and Waterfox. There is no extension to install. The address bar is checked every 5 seconds, so a blocked page can be visible for a few seconds before it is closed or the screen locks. Time counted toward a per-site daily limit works in 7 of them: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Internet Explorer and Maxthon.
Can I use it as parental control software?
Yes. Give each child a User account, then set daily limits, blocked sites and categories, and lock hours for bedtime or school time. A child who is locked out can ask you by email to allow one website, YouTube channel or app. Kaizen Focus runs on Windows only, so it does not cover phones or tablets.
How do I limit screen time on a Windows PC?
With Pro, set a daily limit on PC On Time or PC Active Time, with a different value for each weekday if you like. Add lock hours for the times the PC should not be used at all.
What happens when a limit is reached?
By default the screen locks on every monitor and shows the reason. You can instead have the app or website closed, show a warning only, or just record the rule break. The lock ends when the block ends, or when the Admin signs in with the PIN.
Good to know: Rules apply to User accounts, not to the Admin
The Admin account is not tracked or restricted. If you want to block distractions for yourself, set the rules as Admin, then work in a User account.
Good to know: It needs an email address and an internet connection
First start requires an email address verified by a 6-digit code. The license is checked online, on the free plan too. Without a connection the last result is reused for 7 days, then the app stops until it can check again.
Good to know: What stays on the PC and what is sent
On a single PC, activity history, window titles and screenshots stay on that PC and are deleted after 100 days. At each start and exit the app sends Kaizen's server a unique ID, the PC name, Windows user name, public IP address, Windows version, your registered email and feature-use counters. The domain name of each new site visited is sent once to look up its category. The public IP and its approximate location are recorded in the local history.
Good to know: Office mode shares detailed activity
Joining an office replaces the accounts, rules and history on that PC. Every 30 minutes each office PC uploads its activity so the main PC can report on it: apps, domains, full URLs, window titles, rule breaks and IP history. Uploading screenshots is a separate switch that is off by default.
See where the time goes, then set the limits
Download Kaizen Focus and track the PC for free. Add a Pro license when you are ready to block apps and websites.