Getting things done takes focus.
Decide once, while you are thinking clearly. Lock-in blocks the apps that pull you away — on a schedule you set, or for the next thirty minutes — so the choice is not there to make again at 11pm.
Get it on the App StoreWhat it’s actually for
Work that gets finished. Not more hours — fewer interruptions in the hours you already had. Twelve-second increments do not add up to anything.
An end to the scroll. Nobody decides to lose forty minutes to a feed. It happens because the app was one thumb-length away and the decision was never made. This makes it once, in advance.
Nights that end. The phone puts the apps away at a time you chose while you were awake enough to choose well.
And knowing it is handled. The quiet part: you are not relying on willpower at 11pm, or on noticing a habit while it forms. The control is already applied — you set it once and stopped spending attention on the question.
How it works
- Pick what pulls you away. Individual apps, or whole categories.
- Set a schedule, or just start. Weekday mornings, wind-down at night, or the next forty-five minutes.
- Try to open one. You get your own reason back instead of the app.
Made to be hard to undo
Screen Time limits have an Ignore Limit button. Deleting an app takes twenty seconds to reverse. Lock-in makes stopping cost something: ending early starts a wait you chose while you were thinking clearly.
It is a nudge, not a jail. Anyone determined enough gets around any of this, and the app does not pretend otherwise.
Nothing leaves your phone
No account, no server, no analytics. iOS never even tells the app which apps you picked — it hands over anonymous tokens and shields them on request. There is no data to leak because there is none.
A real-world shortcut
Set it up once, then print a card and put it where the work happens. Scanning starts the session — no expensive gadget, and no hunting through hundreds of apps to find the one you meant to block.
Desk or study lounge
Homework table
Kitchen wall
Works whether or not the app is installed: without it, the code leads to the App Store and the session is waiting afterwards. Print your own cards →
For families
Two schedules cover most of it.
Homework
Sitting down to work? Lock in for up to four hours. No games, no social. Finish early, end early — the block is not a punishment, it is a door you closed on purpose.
Weekdays 15:00–19:00 · Games and Social blocked
Bedtime
No fight at 9pm. The phone puts the apps away on its own and gives them back in the morning, so nobody has to be the one who says it.
Every day 21:00–07:00 · everything distracting blocked
Share your setup with another parent and they get your schedules, not a lecture. Print QR cards for a study lounge — scanning one starts a session, whether or not they already have the app.
An optional lock means someone else holds the code that ends a session early — or grants a fifteen-minute break, with the time added back to the end.