Why StudyLock exists
StudyLock exists because too many website blockers for kids quietly stop working or collect more data than a family expects, and a parent usually finds out only after the fact. StudyLock is built around two priorities instead: staying reliably in force, and being honest about what a browser extension can and cannot do.
What problem is StudyLock trying to solve?
Homework time competes with an open browser one click away from everything, and many parental-control tools are either hard to keep running or hard to trust with a family's data. StudyLock is built to remove both of those frictions.
The core job
A child's focus is the goal, not just fewer minutes online. StudyLock is built so a parent can set website blocking and a focus schedule once, then let it hold — with as little day-to-day supervision as possible.
Where it fits
It runs as a Chrome extension a parent installs on a child's own laptop, covering the gaps built-in family controls leave on Windows and Chromebook, and it is managed remotely from any browser rather than by standing over the child's screen.
Why do reliability and privacy come first?
Parental-control extensions are judged on two things above all: whether they keep working, and whether they respect what they can see. A blocker that quietly stops enforcing, or that collects more than it needs, fails the family relying on it either way — so StudyLock treats both as product requirements, not marketing lines.
Reliability, treated as core
If a child's device goes offline, the last rules a parent set stay in force instead of falling open, and the dashboard flags a device that stops checking in so a parent notices quickly.
Privacy, treated as core
The extension talks to only two network destinations, and the dashboard shows aggregate counts — minutes online and blocked attempts — never a list of the sites a child visited.
What does StudyLock promise — and what does it not promise?
A browser extension is, by its nature, software a device's owner can remove. StudyLock does not promise a lock-down it cannot deliver — it says so plainly, because a family that believed otherwise would be worse off for trusting it.
What StudyLock promises
Consistent enforcement of the rules a parent sets, a clear signal when a device goes quiet, and a dashboard built around aggregate usage rather than raw browsing history.
What StudyLock does not promise
It does not claim to be impossible to remove or disable. A browser extension can be uninstalled, and StudyLock is upfront about that instead of selling a false sense of lock-down.
See the honest version of parental controls
Read how StudyLock sets up website blocking and focus schedules, or install it on a child's Chrome directly.