Last updated August 2026
The short version: Blocking is free and always will be — no account needed. Sadaqah Shield Plus is an optional subscription at $1.99/month or $21.89/year, with the first month free on either. Separately, the sadaqah you voluntarily pledge against your own slip-ups is collected and sent to the charity you choose. Those are two different charges, and the second one is never ours to keep.
Ask us for a refund and you will get one. Email support@sadaqahshield.com. See the refund section below for the details.
Sadaqah Shield is sold and operated by the developer of Sadaqah Shield, reachable at support@sadaqahshield.com. Google is not the seller. The Chrome Web Store distributes the extension, but any charge on your statement originates from us through our payment processor, and any question about that charge should come to us.
An optional subscription. Both plans include a free first month — monthly as a 30-day trial, annual as a discount.
Plus adds Shields, Clean Shields, focus sessions, Prayer Mode, the accountability partner, sync across your devices, search filtering, break reminders, and automatic collection of the sadaqah you pledge.
Cancelling stops future charges and you keep Plus until the end of the period you have already paid for. See the refund section below; ask and you will get one.
Blocking, and the things that make it work. Site, keyword and category blocking, allowlist mode, schedules, daily usage limits, SafeSearch, streaks, Prayer Mode, the Activity tab, timers, and every block-behaviour setting are free, with no cap on how long you use them. Your block list keeps working whether you subscribe or not, and nothing you have built is deleted if you cancel.
Free accounts have limits on list sizes: 20 blocked sites and keywords combined, 5 categories, and 10 usage limits. Going over a limit never deletes anything — you simply cannot add more until you are back under it, or you subscribe.
You do not need an account to block sites. An account exists so your settings can follow you between your own devices and so the pledge feature can work.
Sadaqah you committed to yourself, in one of two ways: the amount you pledged against your own blocked attempts, and, if you choose to turn one on, the uninstall stake described in the next section. Both are charitable donations you choose to commit to, not fees for using the software. We do not keep either as profit. Both are passed to the charity you selected.
This is off unless you turn it on. It does not exist for anyone who does not go into Settings and switch it on, and nothing in this section applies to you until you do.
Sadaqah Shield can be removed from your browser in one click, and that click is easiest to make at exactly the moment it should be hardest. The stake is a way of putting something on the other side of it: you name an amount in advance, and if the extension stops protecting your browser, that amount is donated to the charity you already chose.
Switching the extension off briefly does not charge anything. If you have an accountability partner, gaps like that are reported to them, but they are never charged, because a disabled extension and a closed laptop look the same over a few hours.
You can turn a stake off at any time, and doing so takes seven days to take effect. It stays fully in force for all seven. Raising a stake takes effect immediately; lowering one is treated as turning it off and serves the same seven days.
That delay is the entire mechanism, and we would rather state it plainly than bury it: a commitment you can cancel in the same moment you want to break it is not a commitment. It also means there is always a way out that costs nothing. Turn it off, wait a week, and leave having paid not a penny.
A stake charge is held for 72 hours before the donation is sent. Reinstall Sadaqah Shield and sign in within that window and the charge is refunded in full, automatically, without you asking. We email you when a stake is charged, and that email says so.
Past the 72 hours, the stake is refundable on request exactly like every other sadaqah charge. See the refunds section below. We did not want a situation where the one charge people most regret is the one charge they cannot get back.
Your card is charged first, and the donation to your chosen charity is then made from that amount through our donation partner. These are two separate steps, which means they can come apart: it is possible for a charge to succeed and the donation step to fail — for example if the donation service is unavailable at that moment.
When that happens, the pledge stays recorded as awaiting donation and is retried automatically on later runs until it goes through. We would rather tell you this plainly than let you discover it. If you ever see a charge that has not resulted in a donation, contact us and we will either complete it or refund you, whichever you prefer.
Tax receipts, where available, are issued by the donation partner directly to the email address on your account. Because we do not ask for your legal name, the receipt uses a name derived from your email address.
There are two kinds of charge, and both are refundable on request.
If you ask for a refund of a Sadaqah Shield Plus charge, we will give you one. No qualifying condition, no form, no window you have to catch. Email support@sadaqahshield.com from the address on your account and say which charge.
If you ask for a refund of a sadaqah charge, we will give you one. There is no qualifying condition and no form. Email support@sadaqahshield.com from the address on your account, tell us which charge, and we will process it.
We will refund in full, without argument, in every one of these cases:
One honest limitation: once a donation has already been passed to the charity, that money is genuinely gone to them and we cannot claw it back from the charity. In that situation we will still refund you ourselves where we reasonably can, and we will always tell you exactly what happened rather than hiding behind the transfer.
Refunds are returned to the original payment method. Your bank typically takes five to ten business days to show it.
If a weekly charge fails — an expired card, insufficient funds — the pledge is recorded as failed and we do not silently retry it against your card indefinitely. You will be able to see it in your donation history. Blocking continues to work normally; a failed payment never disables the extension.
Pause the weekly sadaqah, or remove your saved payment method, from Settings inside the extension. Either stops future charges immediately. Deleting your account removes your data and your saved payment reference altogether.
Uninstalling the extension does not by itself cancel a saved payment method — if you have one saved and want it gone, remove it in Settings or email us and we will remove it for you.
Anything about a charge, a refund, or a donation: support@sadaqahshield.com. See also our support page and our privacy policy.