Time's up. So is the color.

Baku doesn't block anything. When your daily limit runs out, the sites you lose time on slowly fade to gray, and you just stop wanting to scroll.

Add to Chrome Firefox

Free · no ads · no data collection
Edge, Opera, Brave and Yandex Browser — also from the Chrome Web Store

before the limitafter

Drag the slider: this is how a site looks when time is up.

Counts only when you're really there

Scrolling, clicking or watching a video: time runs. A tab sitting in the background, or you off making tea: it stops.

What's left is right there in the popup and on the toolbar icon.

Twenty minutes for YouTube, ten for TikTok, and every other site shares one limit.

A site with its own limit is counted separately and never eats into the rest.

Instagram Direct, X messages and Reddit chat never cost time and never go gray. The feed next to them does.

You can add your own pages too.

You can extend, but the button slowly fills for five seconds first. That's usually enough to change your mind.

And only twice a day.

No server, no accounts, no analytics. Whatever Baku knows stays in your browser.

The baku is a spirit from Japanese folklore that comes at night and eats bad dreams.

This one eats doomscrolling: it doesn't scold or forbid, it just quietly takes the color out of your feed when it's time for a break.

Free, in any Chromium browser. Firefox comes next.

Yandex Browser, Opera, Brave and Vivaldi install extensions from the Chrome Web Store: take the Chrome version.

If it helped you scroll less, you can support the project via Telegram (Tribute). It helps fund new features.