Cold Turkey
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Boost productivity by blocking websites, games, and applications with Cold Turkey. Once locked, blocks are hard to bypass. Install on Windows, macOS with browser extensions for multiple browsers. One-time purchase includes lifetime updates, ensuring privacy with locally stored data.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Features
- Block apps
- Anti Procrastination
- Website blocking
- Application Blocker
- Stay Focused
- No Subscription
- Pomodoro Timer
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Block Facebook
- Block Distraction
- Block youtube
- Real-time Statistics
- Filters
- Blocks
- Custom filters
- Web filter
- Screen time
- URL Filtering
- Uptime Monitoring
- Filtering
- Parental Control
Tags
- screen-timeout
- parental-control-tool
- internet-blocking
- web-filters
- time-management
- app-blocker
- application-block
- application-blockers
- self-control
- content-control-app
- hard-to-remove
- self-improvement
- content-control
- content-control-software
- Productivity Tool
- reduce-screen-time
- self-control-filter
- app-blocking
- content-control-apps
- app-block
- web-blocker
- blocker
- self-control-filters
- screentime
- procrastinating
- url-blockers
- parental-control-tools
- blockers
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What is Cold Turkey?
Block websites, games and applications to boost your productivity and reclaim your free time.
- A dose of discipline, built in: Other website blockers are easy to cheat. Cold Turkey Blocker makes it almost impossible to stop the block once you lock it.
- Powerful features made simple: Block anything from specific websites and applications to the entire internet with a few exceptions. Want to schedule breaks from your computer? You can do that too.
- We don't collect your data: All of your settings and statistics are stored locally on your computer and everything you block is kept private. If you share your computer, an application password can be set for extra privacy.
- Subscription-free, one time purchase: Subscriptions kinda suck. Our products are a one time purchase so that you can stay productive in the long term. Only one product key is needed for all computers you personally use and you also get free lifetime updates.
How it works:
- Install desktop app: Run the installer and follow the steps to install Cold Turkey Blocker for Windows or macOS. Mobile devices are not supported because of OS limitations.
- Install browser extensions: After installing the app, you'll see a popup to install the extensions for all supported browsers that were found on your computer.
- Start (and lock) a block: After configuring and starting your block, you can lock it to prevent further changes. Adding a lock will also block your browser if you disable the extension and prevent uninstalls of the software.
Cold Turkey information
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Cold Turkey Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $35 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
99 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
The greatest blocking distractions software ever.
Cold Turkey runs on Mac, but unfortunately it doesn't run on iPhone [0]. Compare Cold Turkey to Freedom which runs on both desktop and phone [1] [2].
Cold Turkey supports categories under Import – Website Categories, but the categories are not comprehensive [3].
Cold Turkey supports locking a block [4], but I wish that it supported a delay feature like Plucky [5].
Block a website in Cold Turkey. Disable the Cold Turkey extension in Safari. Cold Turkey will ask to re-enable the extension. It will start a 60-second timer. You can customize the duration of the timer. Navigate to the blocked website. Put Safari in the background but still visible. The timer will pause. The website will not block.
Under Settings – Blocking, Cold Turkey has a setting, "Block inactive browser tabs for blocked websites." I think that I actually want to block inactive windows but not inactive tabs. Because inactive windows could be visible, but inactive tabs would be occluded by the active tab.
I bypassed Cold Turkey with the following command in Terminal [6]: while ; do killall Cold\ Turkey\ Blocker; done
I tried running Cold Turkey as an administrator. Unfortunately, Frozen Turkey only logged out of the administrator account –– not any of the other accounts.
[0] https://getcoldturkey.com/pricing/ [1] https://freedom.to/downloads [2] https://apps.apple.com/app/freedom-block-distractions/id1269788228 [3] https://getcoldturkey.com/support/user-guide/ [4] https://getcoldturkey.com/features/ [5] https://docs.pluckeye.net/delay [6] https://linuxize.com/post/bash-while-loop/
I've bought only 2 apps/pieces-of-software-that-aren't-games in my life. One of them was Cold Turkey Blocker. I bought it back in 2018. Back then it cost me 25 CAD. It still works now and I've not had to pay anything else. It helped me avoid taking my ADHD meds for a good while, so it paid for itself multiple times over. It's bypassable, but it's honestly still the best purchase I've ever made. Can't recommend it enough.
You can use it to set schedules to both block specific websites and particular apps on your desktop like say Steam. -1 since it still isn't that good or easy for creating a better experience for sites you cant block entirely (e.g. YouTube)
Easy to set up. These apps are sometimes easy to unblock, but this app makes it impossible to do so at all. Not that there isn't a way, but if you don't currently know it, I suggest you don't look into it.
Love it, great tool to block distracions.
Supports a limited variety of browsers..
It supports the main browsers, which wierd browser do you use?