Updates

What's new in Anchor

Plain language, no version-number soup. Every change here came from using Anchor for real — or from someone writing in to say what wasn't working.

1.3 Latest July 2026

A far bigger block list, a kinder goodbye, and a clear way out of a subscription.

  • 25,000+ sites blocked out of the box — the built-in list grew from around 700 to over 25,000, drawn from maintained public blocklists. Every entry was checked against mainstream sites first, so ordinary browsing, health and support sites stay untouched.
  • A pause before you uninstall — opening your browser's extensions page now shows a short reminder that an urge is temporary. Anchor cannot stop you removing it and does not try — the reminder is a moment to think, nothing more, and the way out stays one click away.
  • Cancel your subscription yourself — a Manage subscription link now sits in settings under Anchor Pro, and on the support page. No account or password needed — you sign in with the email you paid with. Pro keeps working until the end of the period you already paid for.
  • A clearer reset toolkit — larger text, stronger contrast throughout, and the breathing pattern you have chosen is now obvious at a glance. The navigation arrows, page dots and controls are all easier to see and easier to hit.
  • Lighter on your laptop — the video scanner now checks frames about once a second instead of four times, which means noticeably less work on video-heavy pages and less fan noise.
  • A sentence you'll remember — a new way to lock a commitment. Make up a short sentence of your own instead of having a code emailed away. Capitals, punctuation and word order are all ignored, so only the words themselves have to be right.
  • Steadier licence checks — Pro status is now confirmed properly on every check, so licences activate and restore reliably after a reinstall.
1.0 July 2026

The first public release.

  • Site blocking — over 25,000 adult sites out of the box, plus proxies and bypass tools, and anything you add yourself.
  • Image filtering that runs on your device — explicit and suggestive pictures are blurred before you see them, and no image is ever uploaded anywhere.
  • The commitment lock — pick a period, and your protection can't be switched off until it ends. Optionally, a one-time unlock code goes to a friend instead of to you.
  • Safe search, forced — Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo stay in strict mode and YouTube in Restricted Mode, signed in or not. Explicit searches are stopped at the query itself.
  • A reset toolkit for the hard moment — guided breathing, grounding, a 90-second urge-surfing timer and muscle relaxation, each with a short note on why it helps.
  • Your own words on every blocked page — write a note to your future self once, and it's the first thing you see when a page is blocked.
  • Progress you can actually see — streaks, urges ridden out and time reclaimed, all counted and kept on your own device.

Updates arrive automatically. Your browser installs new versions of Anchor in the background — nothing to download, and your settings, notes and commitments carry over untouched. Something you'd like to see here? Tell me about it.