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LockedWeb vs Freedom

Freedom blocks distractions in sessions you schedule: social feeds, news, email, the whole internet if you ask. It's a focus tool, and a good one. LockedWeb isn't for focus: it's a standing block on explicit content, always on, with loosening measured in 72-hour steps. Plenty of people run both.

A session and a standing wall.

HOW FREEDOM WORKS Start a session
01Build blocklists: social, news, apps, or everything.
02Start or schedule a session across your devices.
03Locked mode holds the session until the clock runs out.
04The session ends. Everything opens again.

Strong while it runs. Its whole design assumes an end time, which is exactly right for a workday.

HOW LOCKEDWEB WORKS No sessions
01Explicit content is blocked the moment setup finishes: every app, every browser.
02There's nothing to start, schedule, or remember at 1 a.m.
03Categories are maintained by us and SafeSearch is enforced. No lists to assemble.
04The only end time is 72 hours after you ask, with a one-time code.

No end time by design. The 1 a.m. version of you was the whole brief.

Side by side.

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Freedom LockedWeb
The core idea Focus sessions you schedule Standing protection nobody can talk off tonight
Social, news, work distractions ✓ Their heartland Custom blocklist only. Freedom is the better focus tool
Adult-content coverage Lists you assemble yourself ✓ Maintained categories + enforced SafeSearch, updated continuously
When protection ends When the session does 72 hours after you ask, with a one-time code, never sooner
Coverage Apps and browsers, during sessions System-wide DNS, always, incognito included
Family devices A personal tool ✓ Parent holds the code; no browsing reports, ever

What it costs.

FREEDOM
$8.99 /month $39.96/yr or $99.50 one-time
Session-based focus blocking; free tier without locked mode.
LOCKEDWEB
$69 /year = $5.75/mo when paid annually or $9.99 month to month
One plan, every feature. Up to 25 devices. 30-day money-back guarantee. Get protected today

The verdict.

Choose Freedom if…
·The problem is 2 p.m.: feeds, news, and email eating your workday. ·You want sessions, schedules, and a clean end time. ·You like assembling your own blocklists.
Choose LockedWeb if…
✓The problem is 1 a.m., and it doesn't keep office hours. ✓A session you must remember to start is the failure mode you're trying to escape. ✓You want the block to survive your own worst ten minutes, and cover the family's devices too.

They stack cleanly: Freedom for the workday, LockedWeb underneath it, always.

Written from Freedom's public materials, August 2026. Products change. If anything here is stale or unfair, email hello@lockedweb.com and we'll correct it. We'd rather lose the comparison than fudge it.

Nothing to start. Nothing that expires.

72 hours stand between any weak moment and an open door: at noon, at midnight, and at 1 a.m.

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$69/YR OR $9.99/MO · 30-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
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