FocusPaws

FocusPaws is an AI focus and productivity Chrome extension that fights doom-scrolling with accountability rather than hard blocking. Instead of locking sites outright, it ties your browsing habits to a virtual pet: stay focused and your pet thrives, but wander off to time-wasting sites and it visibly struggles. You can choose from built-in pet presets or use the AI feature to clone a photo of your real pet, which makes the stakes feel personal. No account or sign-up is needed to get started. FocusPaws works well for anyone who finds cold-turkey site blockers either too easy to disable or too punishing to stick with — the emotional nudge of a pet in distress turns out to be a more sustainable motivator for many people. It runs in the browser as a Chrome extension, keeping the focus loop right where the distractions happen.

People prone to doom-scrolling use it to stay focused through a virtual pet that reacts to their browsing habits.