A focus blocker that also runs the rest of your PC.

Partly. Seqtrix Starter is free and includes Focus Lock at the Soft strength, which closes a blocked app within a second for the length of the session and can be ended from the ring or the app. Cold Turkey keeps app blocking and its lock modes behind its one-time Pro purchase. The Firm and Hard strengths and website blocking are on the Seqtrix Advanced plan, $4.99 per 30 days paid once, and every install gets a 15-day Advanced trial.

Both allow one early end every 7 days. Freedom ends the session at once; Seqtrix takes effect 10 minutes after you ask and logs the request in the run history, so the exit is a cooling-off period rather than a button. A Hard session also survives a killed process, a restart and a system clock change through a watchdog task, and ends at its scheduled end.

It blocks them through the hosts file, so Edge and Chrome, and Firefox when it uses the Windows resolver, all show the local "Focused until" page. A browser configured with its own DNS-over-HTTPS provider can bypass hosts entries, and HSTS-preloaded sites show the browser’s own error page instead of the local page. Freedom and Cold Turkey use browser extensions for the website side, which is why that row goes to them.

No. Seqtrix runs on Windows 10 and 11 only. If the distraction you need to block lives on your phone, Freedom covers iOS and Android and is the right tool for that half of the problem.

The lock itself does. One difference: on the seqtrix.com installer, uninstalling Seqtrix is refused while a Hard session runs; the Store build cannot refuse an uninstall, because Windows owns the uninstall of Store apps. If you want Hard to mean hard, install from seqtrix.com.