Switchly

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About this app

Stay focused. Stay in control.
Switchly helps you block distracting apps, manage multiple profiles, and automate your routines with one tap or an NFC tag — all without accounts, ads, or unnecessary background usage.

🚀 What Switchly Does
• Create multiple profiles for Work, Study, Sleep, Driving, or anything you need
• Block selected apps quickly and reliably
• NFC tag actions: toggle, activate, or deactivate instantly
• Quick Settings tile for one-tap switching
• Schedules (time/day rules) and optional Wi-Fi / Bluetooth triggers for automatic switching (Premium)
• Emergency Unlock: a temporary 15-minute bypass (once a day)
• Custom accent colours + clean Material UI (light & dark)
• Privacy-first: no accounts needed, no ads
• Optional Google Backup & Restore via the system

🔐 Accessibility Service Usage (Required for App Blocking)
To reliably block apps and enforce your active profile, Switchly uses Android’s Accessibility Service API.

Why it’s needed
Switchly uses Accessibility Service to:
• Detect which app is currently in the foreground (so blocked apps can be stopped immediately)
• Apply your active blocking rules consistently when switching apps
• Show a blocking screen / send you back when a blocked app is opened

What Switchly does NOT do
• It does not read your messages, typed text, passwords, or screen content
• It does not record audio
• It does not collect or sell personal data
• It does not share your data with third parties

All blocking and profile logic runs locally on your device.

You can disable the Accessibility Service at any time in Android Settings.
(Without it, profile switching and automation may still work, but app blocking cannot be enforced reliably.)

🎯 Perfect For
• Students & professionals who want fewer distractions
• Anyone needing a simple but powerful focus mode
• NFC automation fans (desk, car, door, notebook setups)
• Minimalists who prefer privacy-focused, local-first tools
• Parents wanting quick local app restrictions

Switchly keeps distractions away so you can focus on what matters — your time, your control, your flow.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using Switchly for a few weeks now and it's great. It can limit how much time you can use an app per day, or completely block apps within times set by you, or both. It's made a huge difference to me, stopping me from mindless scrolling of social media. It's helping me reset my brain, so I only use social media when I *want* to, rather than filling any quiet moment with brain rot. Combine the app with an NFC tag and you have a free/cheap version of those expensive 'Brick' things.

This app is excellent. It does exactly what you want it to do, for free (plus almost nothing for NFC stickers if you want those to further lock the app down). You can block specific apps at various times during the day, and it's simple and easy to use. Thoroughly recommend it!

sort of works... I set up a profile, gave the permissions that it asked for, wrote a tag with that profile set to toggle. With the profile active when I open a blocked app nothing happens, I can continue to use that blocked app, BUT when I use the app switcher it starts to block the app by flashing the blocked app message, which I can dismiss if I can get the timing right. Definitely on the right track but not functioning as intended.

What’s new

• Switched from Foreground Service to an Accessibility-based approach for better reliability
• Improved Permissions flow (Battery Optimisation + clearer setup steps)
• Smarter Wi-Fi/Bluetooth triggers (only active when actually needed)
• UI polish across Manage Profiles, Premium screen, toggle/tile display, and schedules
• Added update-available popup + improved stability (cloud/onboarding fixes, performance + lint cleanup)