Freedom has been around for years and did a lot to popularize the idea of scheduled website and app blocking across devices. For a lot of people, though, the ongoing subscription for a tool that fundamentally blocks a list of domains on a timer starts to feel like a lot, especially once the free trial ends and the recurring charge becomes real.
If you only need this on your Mac — not synced across five devices — there's a case for something native, one-time, and lighter.
What People Look For When Leaving Freedom
The common asks are consistent: blocking that actually works across every browser, an app-blocking feature that isn't an afterthought, a way to make sessions harder to cancel, and — very often — not wanting to pay monthly indefinitely for something this focused in scope. Cross-device sync is valuable for some, but plenty of Freedom users only ever used it on their Mac anyway.
A Mac-Native Alternative
Lock In! covers the core of what Freedom does for Mac users — website and app blocking, scheduled sessions, an uncancellable mode — built natively for macOS rather than as a cross-platform sync service.
System-Level Blocking, Not a Browser Add-On
A macOS network extension blocks websites across every browser at once, so there's no per-browser setup and no extension to disable when you're tempted mid-session.
App Blocking Built In From the Start
Full-screen app blocking is a core feature, not a bolted-on extra — try opening a blocked app during a session and you get an uncancellable full-screen interrupt instead of the app itself.
Строгий режим Instead of Locked Settings
Строгий режим makes an active session impossible to cancel early, which covers the same "protect me from myself" need Freedom's locked mode addresses.
Lives in the Menu Bar
Start and stop sessions from a menu bar icon rather than a separate window, keeping the friction of starting a session as low as the friction of stopping one should be high.
The same core promise, built for the Mac you're actually using. Get Lock In! on the Mac App Store