Unplug: Screen Time Blocker
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About this app
Unplug is a screen time app and app blocker that turns your screen time goals into commitments you actually keep.
Pick the apps that eat your evenings, set a daily screen time limit, and commit $5 to $75 with a card. Nothing is charged up front. Stay under your limit every day and you are never charged. Go over on any day and the challenge ends, and your card is charged the amount you committed once, about 3 days later. You can dispute a result that looks wrong before then. Nobody wins anyone else's money, there is no pot and no prize, and winners are never paid a cent. Committing money is for adults 18 and over.
How it works
• Pick categories such as Social, Entertainment, Games and Shopping, or up to 50 specific apps.
• Set one daily limit for all of them, from 5 minutes to 4 hours, for 1, 2 or 3 weeks or any length up to 60 days.
• Get a heads up as you get close and, on longer limits, a last call just before you go over.
• Go over and Unplug shows a full screen notice over that app. It does not lock you out.
• Challenges need App Monitoring, the accessibility permission described below.
Group challenges
Join a public challenge on the Discover tab or enter a code a friend shared. Everyone in a group challenge has the same limit, apps and amount. Go over on any day and the challenge ends for you, and the amount is charged about 3 days after the challenge ends.
Focus lock
Block the apps or categories you pick, starting now, for 15 minutes up to 8 hours. A locked app shows "Locked for now." until time is up. With money on it, your card is charged only if you end the lock early: tap Forfeit and it is charged right away, or turn off App Monitoring before time is up and it is charged about 3 days later.
See where your time goes
Home shows your screen time and ranks your Top Offenders for Today, Yesterday or the Last 7 Days. Tap one for a plan: a daily limit at about half your use, or a lock that starts now. You confirm before anything starts.
Unplug Premium
An optional monthly or yearly subscription through Google Play. Eligible new subscribers get a 7 day free trial, and the app shows your price before you subscribe. It adds:
• Practice mode: a personal challenge, daily limit or focus lock, with no money on the line.
• Block Shorts and Reels: a separate tool, not part of any challenge. When a short video feed you chose opens, Unplug backs you out of it and the rest of that app keeps working.
• Family Allowance: a weekly deal where your teen keeps a daily screen time limit for the allowance you promise. Unplug tracks each week and what you owe, and you pay your teen yourself. Only the parent needs a subscription.
• Guided breathing: three exercises with calming soundscapes.
Personal challenges and focus locks with money on the line, group challenges and screen time tracking all work without a subscription.
Important disclosure: use of the AccessibilityService API
Unplug uses the Android AccessibilityService API, with your explicit opt-in, for two features: detecting which app is in the foreground so it can warn you and enforce the limits you set the moment you open an app you chose to limit, and, only if you turn on Block Shorts, recognizing short-video feeds on screen so it can close them. On-screen content is processed on your device only and is never collected, stored, or shared. Unplug never reads what you type. Your screen-time totals sync to your account, because that is what your challenges are scored on. You can turn the permission off at any time in Android Settings > Accessibility.
Stop doomscrolling
With Premium, Block Shorts and Reels works as a short video blocker: it backs you out of the Reels and Shorts feeds you pick, so a quick check stays quick. Pair it with a screen time limit or a focus lock for an app blocker you stick with.
Unplug is for people tired of "just one more scroll" who want real accountability behind their screen time goals. Set your first challenge and take your time back.
Pick the apps that eat your evenings, set a daily screen time limit, and commit $5 to $75 with a card. Nothing is charged up front. Stay under your limit every day and you are never charged. Go over on any day and the challenge ends, and your card is charged the amount you committed once, about 3 days later. You can dispute a result that looks wrong before then. Nobody wins anyone else's money, there is no pot and no prize, and winners are never paid a cent. Committing money is for adults 18 and over.
How it works
• Pick categories such as Social, Entertainment, Games and Shopping, or up to 50 specific apps.
• Set one daily limit for all of them, from 5 minutes to 4 hours, for 1, 2 or 3 weeks or any length up to 60 days.
• Get a heads up as you get close and, on longer limits, a last call just before you go over.
• Go over and Unplug shows a full screen notice over that app. It does not lock you out.
• Challenges need App Monitoring, the accessibility permission described below.
Group challenges
Join a public challenge on the Discover tab or enter a code a friend shared. Everyone in a group challenge has the same limit, apps and amount. Go over on any day and the challenge ends for you, and the amount is charged about 3 days after the challenge ends.
Focus lock
Block the apps or categories you pick, starting now, for 15 minutes up to 8 hours. A locked app shows "Locked for now." until time is up. With money on it, your card is charged only if you end the lock early: tap Forfeit and it is charged right away, or turn off App Monitoring before time is up and it is charged about 3 days later.
See where your time goes
Home shows your screen time and ranks your Top Offenders for Today, Yesterday or the Last 7 Days. Tap one for a plan: a daily limit at about half your use, or a lock that starts now. You confirm before anything starts.
Unplug Premium
An optional monthly or yearly subscription through Google Play. Eligible new subscribers get a 7 day free trial, and the app shows your price before you subscribe. It adds:
• Practice mode: a personal challenge, daily limit or focus lock, with no money on the line.
• Block Shorts and Reels: a separate tool, not part of any challenge. When a short video feed you chose opens, Unplug backs you out of it and the rest of that app keeps working.
• Family Allowance: a weekly deal where your teen keeps a daily screen time limit for the allowance you promise. Unplug tracks each week and what you owe, and you pay your teen yourself. Only the parent needs a subscription.
• Guided breathing: three exercises with calming soundscapes.
Personal challenges and focus locks with money on the line, group challenges and screen time tracking all work without a subscription.
Important disclosure: use of the AccessibilityService API
Unplug uses the Android AccessibilityService API, with your explicit opt-in, for two features: detecting which app is in the foreground so it can warn you and enforce the limits you set the moment you open an app you chose to limit, and, only if you turn on Block Shorts, recognizing short-video feeds on screen so it can close them. On-screen content is processed on your device only and is never collected, stored, or shared. Unplug never reads what you type. Your screen-time totals sync to your account, because that is what your challenges are scored on. You can turn the permission off at any time in Android Settings > Accessibility.
Stop doomscrolling
With Premium, Block Shorts and Reels works as a short video blocker: it backs you out of the Reels and Shorts feeds you pick, so a quick check stays quick. Pair it with a screen time limit or a focus lock for an app blocker you stick with.
Unplug is for people tired of "just one more scroll" who want real accountability behind their screen time goals. Set your first challenge and take your time back.
Set daily screen time limits, block apps, and stop doomscrolling for good.
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What’s new
Your challenge totals are now more accurate: an app no longer keeps counting after you close it or lock your phone. Plus a small surprise when the Unplug team gifts you Premium.
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About the developer
Farrell Bros LLC
unscrollapp@gmail.com
6805 Woodlawn Ave NE APT 5
Seattle, WA 98115-5440
United States
+1 530-570-7913