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Pick what to block
Choose from a catalog — Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, X, Reddit and more — or add any custom site. No hosts or regex to fiddle with.
Free · Windows · No admin needed
Put your doom-scrolling
Put your doom-scrolling
on a timer.
Reels, Shorts, the endless feed — they don't want you to leave, and your brain keeps saying "just one more." BrainRotDoctor gives those sites a strict time budget and closes the tab when it's up. The friction your willpower has been missing.
One .exe, ~71 MB · installs per-user · 31 languages
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You opened it to check one message. Forty minutes later your thumb aches, the feed is still infinite, and you couldn't name a single thing you saw. That's the loop. Browser extensions get switched off in three clicks — so they don't work. This is built to be annoying to bypass on purpose.
How it works
You make rules. A rule is simply what to block and when.
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Allowance per hour
"Allow 5 minutes per hour, then block." Enough for a peek and a laugh, not enough to disappear for the afternoon. Refills every hour.
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Or a hard schedule
Block completely during a window — say 23:00–07:00 on weekdays — so bedtime stays bedtime and mornings start without the feed.
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Strict mode
Lock everything for a set time behind a double opt-in. While it's on you can't edit the rules, quit, or even uninstall from Windows the easy way.
Your rules at a glance — with live status: how much time is left, or what's blocked right now.
Install in three clicks
Download
Grab the single BrainRotDoctor.exe and double-click it.
Get past SmartScreen
Windows will warn about an unknown publisher (it's unsigned, open-source). Click More info → Run anyway.
Install
Click Install in the prompt. It sets itself up for your user, starts with Windows, and begins protecting you.
No administrator rights required — it installs under your own user folder. To remove it later, use Windows "Apps & features" (this won't work while strict mode is active — that's the point).
The details
Closes the tab, not the browser. It watches the active tab via Windows UI Automation and closes only the offending page.
Keeps the useful parts. Block the reels and the feed while DMs and stories stay reachable.
Two-process guard. A paired watchdog restarts the app instantly if it's killed — no quick-quit escape.
Survives restarts. Registers per-user autostart, so a reboot doesn't get you off the hook.
31 languages. Follows your Windows language automatically, switchable in Settings.
Light & dark. A clean, modern interface that follows your system theme.
No account, no cloud. Everything stays on your machine. Free and open source.
Strict-mode-aware uninstall. The easy uninstall is blocked while you're committed — deliberate friction, by design.