SurfPal: Limit Screen Time · Block Website · Stay Focused

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• May 14, 2026
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  Track, analyze, and limit your time spent on each website. SurfPal is an in-browser screen time management app that helps you measure and improve your online habits.
  
  Centering on time management, SurfPal organically combines data observation and behavioral intervention, providing many powerful and flexible features that can meet the different needs of most people. If you want to know specifically where your time goes, or find yourself addicted to certain distracting websites and unable to extricate yourself, then you are likely someone SurfPal can help. Install and experience SurfPal now, and let it become your capable assistant for self-improvement!
  
  Core features:
  
  ★ Data Analysis:
  • Supports viewing by day, week, and month granularity, displaying drill-down charts on the same screen, allowing you to analyze data more intuitively.
  • Organizes data based on domains in a tree structure, enabling you to view data for any domain level.
  • Supports exporting data in CSV format for use with other software.
  
  ★ Schedule:
  • Set your routine and limit access to specific websites during fixed time periods.
  
  ★ Time Limit:
  • Supports configuring global rules, group rules, and site rules.
  • Supports customizing the period, rotation time point, maximum duration, and effective days.
  • Utilizes rule priorities to implement complex requirements such as global time limits while exempting specific sites.
  
  ★ Website Grouping:
  • You can create custom website groups to easily apply bulk restrictions and query the usage duration of these sites.
  
  ★ Data Synchronization:
  • Automatically sync data between your devices every 10 minutes and avoid losing it due to uninstallation or other issues. This feature works by directly connecting the browser extension to Google Drive, ensuring your data never touches our servers.
  
  ★ Others:
  • Display the current website browsing duration on the extension icon.
  • Supports daily or weekly data report generation.
  • Supports data backup and recovery, making it easier to transfer to other devices.
  • Supports dark theme.

  Track, analyze, and limit your time spent on each website. SurfPal is an in-browser screen time management app that helps you measure and improve your online habits.
  
  Centering on time management, SurfPal organically combines data observation and behavioral intervention, providing many powerful and flexible features that can meet the different needs of most people. If you want to know specifically where your time goes, or find yourself addicted to certain distracting websites and unable to extricate yourself, then you are likely someone SurfPal can help. Install and experience SurfPal now, and let it become your capable assistant for self-improvement!
  
  Core features:
  
  ★ Site Usage Time Tracking
  
  Automatically tracks browsing duration for each site, helping you clearly see which sites your time is spent on and identify frequent usage across social media, short video platforms, entertainment sites, and more.
  
  ★ Screen Time Data Analytics
  
  View site usage data by day, week, or month. Supports time range filtering, site filtering, trend charts, detail lists, total duration, average duration, active days, and other statistics.
  
  ★ Site Blocking and Access Limits
  
  Set access limits for distracting sites. Supports Block by Schedule and browsing duration limits to help reduce unconscious web browsing, video watching, and social media scrolling.
  
  ★ Focus Plan
  
  Use a plan to manage target sites, excluded sites, execution days, time slots, max duration, and reset time, flexibly adapting to work, study, rest, and other scenarios.
  
  ★ Intent Check
  
  Adds a short wait and confirmation before visiting target sites, interrupting the habit of unconsciously opening distracting sites and reducing impulsive visits.
  
  ★ Site Duration Badge
  
  Displays today’s browsing duration for the current site on the browser toolbar. It reminds you in advance when a limit is about to be triggered, helping you control your screen time in time.
  
  ★ Data Export
  
  Supports exporting site usage data as CSV for further analysis in Excel, Numbers, or other tools.
  
  ★ Cloud Backup and Multi-Device Sync
  
  SurfPal Pro supports backing up data to your own Google Drive and syncing it across multiple devices or browser profiles.
  
  ★ Privacy Protection
  
  SurfPal does not read specific webpage content or modify webpage content. Browsing duration data is stored only locally in your browser by default. After cloud backup is enabled, the data is saved only to your own Google Drive.

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