Blockd - NFC & QR app blocking

NightfallDev

About this app

blockd helps you take back your focus and improve you digital wellbeing/digital health.

Choose the apps that pull you in, start a session, and blockd covers them with a full-screen lock. To unlock, you scan your own NFC tag or QR key — so if you put that tag somewhere out of reach, you can't cave on impulse. The friction is the point.

HOW IT WORKS
- Pick the apps you want to block.
- Start a blocking session.
- Blocked apps are covered by a lock screen until you scan your NFC tag or QR key.
- Keep the tag or key out of reach and stay focused.

FEATURES
- Physical unlock — end a session by tapping an NFC tag or scanning your personal QR key.
- Emergency stop — a configurable press-and-hold escape hatch for when you genuinely need out.
- Limited pauses — allow yourself a set number of short breaks per session, then blocking resumes.
- Block any app — social media, games, browsers, anything that distracts you.
- 11 languages — English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Japanese, plus your device language by default.
- No ads, no accounts, no sign-up.

PRIVACY FIRST
blockd collects nothing and sends nothing off your device. Your blocked-app list, your keys, and your settings stay on your phone. No analytics, no ads, no servers. The camera is used only while scanning your QR key, and the app only checks which app is in the foreground to know when to show the lock screen — it never reads your screen content.

By default blockd works without the Accessibility service. You can optionally turn it on for faster, more reliable blocking — entirely your choice.

Put your distractions behind a tag you have to walk across the room for. Start focusing with blockd.

What’s new

Added new help overlay and reworked permissions