Lock In Squad: App Blocker

Eli Young

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Lock In Squad blocks the apps that pull you away while you're locked in, on your own or together with your friends. Pick your apps, start a timer or a stopwatch, and they stay blocked until you hold the Lock Out button.

BLOCKING
• Choose Block these apps to block the apps you tap, or Allow only these apps to keep open only the ones you need. Each app on the list is marked Blocked or Allowed.
• Add websites such as youtube.com on the Websites row, and Lock In Squad blocks them in Chrome, Samsung Internet, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Opera, DuckDuckGo and Vivaldi while you're locked in.
• The Browsers row blocks every browser on your phone in one tap.
• Set up to five schedules, such as weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM, and your apps lock at those times even with Lock In Squad closed.
• When a timer reaches zero, your apps stay blocked until you lock out.
• To lock out, you hold the button for 1 to 30 seconds, however long you set, which gives you a moment to change your mind.
• While you're locked in, a "Locked in" notification shows your lock-in time.

Blocking apps uses two Android permissions, Usage access and Display over other apps. Website blocking uses the Accessibility service, which you turn on yourself after Lock In Squad shows you what it does. It checks your browser's address bar on your phone, and nothing it reads leaves the phone. Hide notifications from blocked apps uses Notification access, which you turn on yourself, to hold those apps' notifications on your phone until your apps open again.

FRIENDS
• Add friends by name or user ID, or share a link that adds you as a friend.
• Start a group lock-in and follow the live standings while you lock in together. Invite friends in the app or with a link.
• Give a group lock-in set times. Everyone who accepts them has their apps blocked at those times, and that time counts in the group's standings.
• Keep a friend streak going on the focus days you share.
• Activity shows your friends' longer lock-ins, streak milestones and group wins, and you can like each one.
• A glowing dot on a friend's picture means they're locked in right now. Send a nudge to a friend who hasn't started yet, or a cheer to one who has.
• The weekly leaderboard ranks you and your friends by time locked in.

PROGRESS
• Your streak counts only the focus days you pick on the Block tab. Share it as an image when it's worth showing off.
• Set a daily goal from 15 minutes to 8 hours on the Block tab. Your profile shows how close you are today, and its heatmap marks the days you hit it.
• Your profile charts your focus time over 7, 30 or 90 days, a year or all time, next to a heatmap of the days you locked in.
• Two home screen widgets show your lock with your streak or today's minutes. On a focus day you haven't locked in, the lock gets more worried as midnight gets close.
• Reminders come from your lock, in its own voice, and switches in Settings turn them off by type.

THE SHOP
Each minute locked in earns you one minute for the Shop. Give your lock a body color, face, hat and top, pick a background and a button color, and save up for safes from a piggy bank to a vault door. Your safe's door shuts when you lock in and opens when you lock out. You can also watch an ad for 10 bonus minutes. A friend who signs up with your referral code gets 1,000 minutes, and you get 1,000 after their first lock-in.

PRICE
Lock In Squad is free to use. An ad can show when you end a stopwatch lock-in or quit a timer early, but never when you finish a timer. Premium is a single payment, with no subscription. It removes ads and comes with the Diamond safe and a Premium badge next to your name.

Lock In Squad runs on Android phones and tablets, and on iPhone and iPad. It works with TalkBack and has a dark mode in Settings. Start as a guest, then sign in with Google or email to keep your progress, see your stats and add friends.

The privacy policy is at lockinsquad.com/privacy and the terms are at lockinsquad.com/terms.

What’s new

• Timers open your apps when they end, and a lock-in you forget ends by itself.
• The Friends tab is one list, with a bell to nudge or cheer a friend.
• Already have an account? Log in from the You tab or Settings.
• The invite bonus now works however you sign up.
• Setup takes one tap: suggested apps come checked.
• The app opens faster and the app list loads instantly.
• A shorter tour.