Stay Focused - App Block

The idea is good, UI is easy to understand, but it won't work properly. For instance, Slack and Facebook Messenger notifications still pop even though they were supposed to be blocked. Even worse, the only thing that gets blocked is my music (YT music), at random times... Which forces me back to my phone. Bummer. Thanks for the app, I will try it again after some time to see if everything got fixed.

A really solid app with flexible features to control app access and usage in different ways. The only things that could be improved would be the main screen not updating when a rule is "paused" until you relaunch the app (or open and close the About menu), and once the app had to be restarted when it stopped blocking apps (but it told me it needed to be restarted, which was nice).

No longer works properly. Set everything up included Installed Services and nothing gets blocked. The app's pause button also never worked properly. Also the UI is pretty ill-conceived and difficult to use. But if it just worked properly I'd be happy. I paid money for the full version. This is why I have trust issues.

Totally love it I've been using this app for about a month now and I've been able to cut my phone usage drastically. Like I went from using my phone for 10 hours to using it for 2 hours a day. an update of a quite some time: there seems to be some glitch with the take a break option on the option. It disables randomly even though the limit ends clearly a long time in the future. It has happened to me twice so far. Fix it.

The app is great and helps me a lot. The only thing that bothers me is when you put strict mode you don't have anymore access to your settings. That means also necessary things like wifi menu, data menu etc.. if you would be able to change that it will be much better. Otherwise great app

I'm gonna write all of the flaws of this app: 1) blocks the apps that support pop-up view (95% of apps) with a ~10% success rate 2) when it comes to websites and the apps that don't support pop-up view, it's more like ~80% (you can't enjoy using them, but it's still possible to navigate them if you're really determined) 3) doesn't recognize that I installed the app OneNote, no matter what I do. And it doesn't show Samsung Notes in the list of apps (but blocks it). the upsides: goal-based blocking, ability to backup and restore

I like the added functionality of hourly timers that Google Wellness doesn't have. Really helps me stay focused in the morning. Plus the interface for the actual app is so poorly designed and unintuitive, it acts as a natural deterrent to disabling an app restriction. You can't turn it off without at least 4 misclicks that force you to sit through a five second ad. Absolutely fantastic. 10/10

Used to be very good app. Not sure why they changed the interface, old one was much better. Two issues now 1) The timer you can't set for more than 30mins not sure why. 2) Lock mode is good in theory (it stops you uninstalling) but then you can't access other settings such as Bluetooth etc. which is ridiculous.

Great App for time awareness and management! Helps me a lot! A small issue though... Sometimes, The app suddenly loses on control permissions in strict mode, but since strict mode doesn't allow getting into settings, said permissions remain ungranted for the entirety of the strict mode period, rendering it useless with no way of actually fixing it :')

Don't expect to have customer support if you buy the app. I have premium and one day the app suddenly switched back to the free version. I was logged into the right account on the Google play store, so I contacted the developer, but they never replied. Almost three weeks later premium started working again. Still don't know what happened.

It's a great app, I highly recommend it. Will save you a lot of time. One thing that could be improved is the random text that is entered to remove strict mode. I find that text too short. Other apps have the option to enter the preferred text length. Would be great to have that here, too.

EDIT: nearly two years later. New review: The app still feels like its under construction and the blocking of the apps seems sometimes like its not working properly. But its still a really great app that helps me spend less time on platforms like Instagram. Old review: This app is really helpful for concentration, but could use some more clear instructions for how to use it. It can get quite confusing.

I have been using this app for quite some time. It immensely helped me with my productivity. There is just one bug I found recently. The block screen shows up whenever I have a notification on an app with rules, even if it is not supposed to be blocked because the rule has not yet been satisfied.

I really love the app but the recent update messed up my timing.It's always counting back even if the particar app which is blocked is not on the screen anymore. So I keep loosing the time! Now the problem is that I restricted everything with the STRICKT MODE until mid October 2021! Now I can't even check my messages on FB, I can't respond to friends!Can you fix this ASAP? I bought the premium cause I really liked the fact what I block once, I can't undo IT! UPDATE: ISSUE FIXED! 5 STARS

If this is not the best productivity app on Android its definitely a strong contender for the title. Just works great and has very important well done category and limiting options. I think the current (new?) timed pause functions will work for me. I'd take off half a star because the pause timers are very important and can see significant usability and helpfulness improvements with minor changes. Rounding to 5.

So far this app has been awesome. My sleep schedule was ruined because I'd habitually spend wayyy to much time on social media late at night when my will power was at a low. I tried a few apps but they didn't have a setting that 1. Was time of day sensitive, can lock a chunk of my day 2. Doesn't have an override. A simple pop up won't do it for me This app has both and I'm very happy :)

It helps! I appreciate the feature where you can pause it for a few minutes. That way when I legitimately need to look at a YouTube video to study or something I can turn it off, and then it will automatically go back on afterwards.

Fantastic app, helped me become more productive. Something I would like to see is being able to duplicate pre set apps for interchangeable block types, ie duration and scheduled, instead of having to recreate the same sets of apps for different block types.

Very very nice app. Only 2 modification that can help make it even 10 times better than what it is now. And that is providing with setting up a accountibility partner, to whom all my app usage reports go automatically daily. Research suggest, having a accountibility partner helps you to build a habbit even better. Also, the app is not able to detect dual apps created in xiaomi mobiles

So far so good I have been wasting the last few weeks on a particularly addictive and stupid game. I've now limited myself to 5 mins play a day. I love that I can allow myself to play it only after spending a certain time on an educational app. Love that I can block specific websites as my workaround for blocking Instagram was to look at it via Chrome. I've just purchased pro as it seems to cover what I need.

Great that it overlays an unibstrusive countdown to remind you when you have a minute or so left. Also the idea of a limit 'per hour' is a good idea to stop doom scrolling through social media.

This is the first time that I purchased an app. This app, just to hide the pause button and it's totally worth it. A week ago my total screen time was 18hours and Yesterday, less than 2hours. Before going to the scrict mode, i suggest everyone to understand the app first and do think twice. Because you really can't get away with it. It is damn strict and scared me one day. I think phone got locked twice in the timings which I did not select, but I'm not very sure. Life saviour though.

Well worth the money. Helps combat phone addiction like no other app! Dev Suggestions: - Activating lock mode shouldn't require to re-enter a password. Only going from lock to normal should. It makes activating lock mode inconvenient. Why not set up a password once and only use it for unlocking? - 6 character passwords are instantly remembered. Support longer ones!

Great app for me to avoid all the distraction from my phone, and the customer services also response and provide me a solution very quickly whenever I have any issue. But there's still one problem, after I update my XiaoMi system, the app could not function anymore, before that it is doing very well, hope the team can solve this issue ASAP.

Helps... really helps! thanks dear developer! Review addition: 1.Hasn't ever betrayed me 2.Tons of new thoughtfully developed features that really add value to the already helpful app 3.Simple but powerful interface that helps you doing exactly what you want to 4.Strict mode tightens the stringency for good. Helps creating good habits and busting the bad ones 5.Super flexible... Control your usage around an app, a website or even a keyword in browser search GO FOR IT! No more space here -SORRY.

Extremely really good. It does it's job really well, a bit confusing UI but it's seriously the best in the app store at the moment. And if you're really committed to studying and keeping distractions off, they have a pro version which has unlimited blocking. This app is godsent for people with ADHD or easily distracted people. Amazing app.

Autostart getting off automatically so sometimes app is not working. All permission are given. Battery No restriction and even app is locked on recent pages. Why? Also Can search blocked keywords on youtube. Fix it. Blocked keywords should not be searched anywhere. You already have accessibility setting. Other apps can block it why can't you. I am not able to focus through easily searching this keywords on youtube.

I'm using premium version of this app for past 4 months the app lacks thing like screen time once we exhausted the time the pop up displays but rebooting the phone makes us to access it takes more than an hour to again block it so I started bypassing this by rebooting everytime and the other one is strict mode doesn't block setting editing ends up easily disabling the accessibility and device admin of this app.