What StudyLock does
If the wifi drops, StudyLock keeps enforcing your last saved rules instead of opening up. The rest of what you can control lives below, all set from your dashboard.
What can you control with StudyLock?
Eight controls cover the day-to-day of managing your child's focus — from blocking and schedules to a pause or a lock when you need everything to stop.
Website blocking
Block individual sites or whole categories, or flip to an allow-only list so just the approved sites stay reachable. Saved rules reach your child's Chrome on its next check-in — usually within a few minutes.
Focus schedules
Set focus windows for homework or study time on a 15-minute grid. During a window only what you allow stays open; outside it, your regular rules apply.
Ask-a-parent requests
When a site is blocked, a child can tap Ask a parent on the blocked page — that sends you the site's name, and nothing else.
Pause the internet
Block every site in Chrome except your allow list, for 15 minutes up to 8 hours. It ends when the timer runs out, or when you switch it off.
Remote Lock
Block every site in Chrome — even the ones on your allow list. There is no timer: it holds until you switch it off. While a lock is on, the Ask a parent button is hidden.
Co-parent shared profiles
You and a co-parent can share one child profile. Both of you can adjust rules, review requests, and see the same weekly digest. Screen-time decisions don't rest on one person. Part of the Family plan — households paired before Family checkout opens keep co-parent access free.
Weekly digest
A short weekly digest of minutes of active use and pages blocked per child. Aggregate counts only — never a list of the sites your child visited.
Offline fail-closed enforcement
What happens while a device is offline, and once it reconnects, is covered in detail below.
Blocked page
your child taps “Ask a parent”
Your dashboard
you see the site's name — nothing else · Approve / Decline
Next check-in
the device picks up your decision — usually within a few minutes
What happens if a child's device goes offline?
Many blockers quietly stop enforcing when a device loses signal or misses an update. StudyLock is built to fail closed instead — the last rules you set keep holding.
While the connection is down
StudyLock keeps enforcing whatever rules were active the moment the device last checked in — blocking, schedule, or allow-list all stay exactly as they were. Nothing opens up just because the network drops.
Once it reconnects
The device syncs the latest rules you've set since it went offline, and any waiting “Ask a parent” decisions arrive at the same time.
What can't a browser blocker do?
StudyLock is built for trust, not theater — every feature above comes with a plain account of its limits.
A browser extension can be removed
A browser extension can be removed, and StudyLock says so upfront. If your child disables or removes it, the dashboard shows that device as no longer checking in. You notice quickly and can have a conversation — instead of trusting a lock-down that does not exist.
Rules apply only inside Chrome
StudyLock manages Chrome on the paired device. It does not reach other browsers, mobile apps, or system settings outside Chrome — plan the rest of your setup with that in mind.
No browsing history is stored
The dashboard never stores a list of the sites your child visited. See 'Weekly digest' above for what it does show.
Set up a calm focus routine
Install the extension on your child's Chrome and manage every control above from your dashboard. A new school term or a changed family schedule is the natural moment to set it up.