Cadence for Google Chrome™A calm breakpoint before time gets away.
Cadence pauses infinite-scroll feeds and video or livestream sites with a small on-page note showing how long it has been since your last check-in, then gets out of the way again.
Paces the sites you actually lose time on.
Built to be trusted, not just installed.
Cadence doesn’t run a generic timer in the background. It paces each site by what actually counts there, posts scrolled or minutes watched, and processes everything locally in your browser.
How Cadence paces a page.
The same three things happen on every supported site.
- 1
Count what matters
Feeds like Reddit, X, and Instagram are paced by posts scrolled. Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube’s watch pages are paced by minutes watched instead.
- 2
Show a small note
Once the count is reached, a note appears on the page naming how long it has been since your last check-in, without blocking the rest of the page.
- 3
Get out of the way
The note clears itself, waits for a dismiss, or auto-dismisses after a few seconds, whichever you’ve chosen.
You decide, site by site.
Choose Gentle, Standard, or Frequent to rescale every site at once, or set an exact cadence per site. Choose how long a gap in visits should reset the running count back to zero: an hour, a day, or a week.
See your progress. Snooze in one tap.
The toolbar popup shows how close the current site is to its next break before one actually appears, so a note never arrives out of nowhere.
- A running progress bar for the current site’s next break
- Snooze pacing for 1, 2, or 3 hours without turning Cadence off
- Optional local activity stats, off by default, stored only in Chrome
Plain about privacy.
Pacing and page changes happen locally in your browser. Local stats, when enabled, are stored only in Chrome and never sent anywhere. Anonymous usage analytics is on by default and can be turned off at any time.
Add a calmer default to your scrolling.
Cadence is on its way to the Chrome Web Store, one breakpoint at a time.