BlackOut: Stay Focused

BlueTree Lab

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

BlackOut: Stay Focused and Block Distractions / Beat Cell Phone Addiction / Mobile Phone Addiction

Stay focused, block distractions, reduce screen time, and beat cell phone addiction with BlackOut.

BlackOut is a focus app with a schedule. Set a start time, a finish time, and the days of the week, then turn the slot on. During those hours it dissuades you from using your phone. Scrolling, gaming, and checking apps get a lot harder.

Use it while you study, at work, or at night when you want less screen time. It keeps repeating on the days you picked until you turn it off, like an alarm.

How To Use
• Open the app and accept the required overlay permission
• Tap the floating plus icon
• Select a start time
• Select a finish time
• Select the day(s) of the week you want it to run (including every day)
• Activate the switch on the time slot in the list
• Remember to turn it off if you don't want the schedule to keep repeating.

Features
• Register up to 3 time frames of up to 4 hours each for free
• Helps with phone addiction, lower screen time, and better sleep
• Block distractions on a schedule so you can stay focused
• Dissuades you from using your phone during the hours you choose
• Weekdays only, weekends, or every day
• Multiple time slots (unlimited for premium)
• Time slots that overlap two days (premium)
• Whitelist (premium)

Recommended For
- People trying to beat cell phone addiction, screen addiction, or smartphone overuse
- Students and workers who want to block distractions and stay focused
- Anyone who wants to reduce screen time, stay off their phone at bedtime, or take a digital detox
- People who feel they are ignoring family and friends because of their phone
- Anyone who needs an extra push to stay off their phone
- People who feel more anti-social because of smartphone habits
- People worried about nomophobia (fear of being without a phone)

Troubleshooting
If you're new and BlackOut isn't behaving:
• Set times in 24 hour format (11pm is 23:00).
• It can be a couple of minutes late. That's to save battery. A 3 minute slot often won't fire.
• Turn off battery saver (STAMINA mode, etc.).
• If your phone uses Doze, turn Doze off in Settings.
• Protected apps / whitelist (Huawei and similar): add BlackOut.
• Still stuck? Email [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

Could be really good. It almost completely blocks your phone until the block ends, but can be bypassed by just restarting your phone, or at least my phone. I really liked this app until I found the bypass. If this got fixed it would probably be the best productivity app out there. It could also have more features like location based blocking or usage time based blocking

Thanks to this awesome app, I now go to bed on time. Works as expected. Locks screen even after phone is restarted. Perfect! Edit 7 Sep 2021: After three years I am still using it and it's working great. A feature suggestion: Add an option to lock the application settings (blackout time, days and whitelisted apps etc.) for specified number of days.

For me works well in all my devices (Motorola, Xiaomi and a tablet), really helps to be more focus in my work and avoid distractions. I bought the lifetime access. For the people that said that after restarting the phone the app doesn't work, maybe is a problem with the device, for me it's impossible to by pass the block even after restarting the phone. Kudos to the developer.

What’s new

- Minor bug fixes and maintenance.