Why StudyLock exists
StudyLock exists because too many website blockers for kids fail their families. Some quietly stop working; others collect more data than a family expects. Either way, you usually find out after the fact. Here is how StudyLock is built to avoid both.
What problem is StudyLock trying to solve?
Homework time competes with an open browser one click away from everything. Many parental-control tools are either hard to keep running or hard to trust with your family's data. StudyLock is built to remove both frictions.
The core job
Your child's focus is the goal, not just fewer minutes online. You 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 you install on your child's own laptop, covering the gaps built-in family controls leave on Windows and Chromebook. You manage it from any browser — not by standing over your child's screen.
Why do reliability and privacy come first?
Parental-control extensions are judged on two things: whether they keep working, and whether they respect what they can see. A blocker that quietly stops enforcing — or collects more than it needs — fails the family relying on it. StudyLock treats both as product requirements, not marketing lines.
Reliability, treated as core
If your child's device goes offline, the last rules you set stay in force instead of falling open. The dashboard flags a device that stops checking in, so you notice quickly.
Privacy, treated as core
The extension talks only to StudyLock's own server. The dashboard shows aggregate counts — minutes of active use and pages blocked — never the list of sites your child visited. The only site name that ever reaches you is one your child asks to unblock.
What does StudyLock promise — and what does it not promise?
A browser extension can always be removed — no software promise changes that. Here is what StudyLock commits to given that limit, and what it does not, because a family that believed otherwise would be worse off for trusting it.
What StudyLock promises
Consistent enforcement of the rules you set — and everything the Reliability and Privacy cards above commit to.
What StudyLock does not promise
It does not claim to be impossible to remove or disable. A browser extension can be uninstalled. StudyLock is upfront about that instead of selling a false sense of lock-down.
See how StudyLock holds up
Read how you set up website blocking and focus schedules, or install it on your child's Chrome directly.