Digital Detox: Focus & Live

Petr Nálevka (Urbandroid)

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The Unbreakable Blocker for Deep Focus & a Better Life

About this app

The Unbreakable Blocker for Deep Focus & a Better Life

Finally, a Blocker You Can't Cheat: Engineered from the ground up to be unbreakable. Once you commit, there are no loopholes or workarounds.

✔️ Pay Only When You Fail: The app is free to use when you succeed. We only get paid if you decide to break your own rules, creating powerful self-accountability.
✔️ Reclaim Your Productivity: Block digital noise to accomplish your most important work.
✔️ Strengthen Your Relationships: Create tech-free "Family Time" to be fully present with loved ones.
✔️ Protect Your Sleep: Automate a nightly wind-down routine by blocking stimulating apps and websites for better rest.
✔️ Powerful, Flexible Scheduling: Design your ideal day with custom schedules for work, family, and personal time.
✔️ Advanced Content Filtering: Instantly block pornography, social media, news, or any other distracting digital content.
✔️ 100% Ad-Free, Always: Your focus and privacy are our only product. We will never show you ads.

To ensure the app is effective, disable all system optimizations and allow the app to run in the background. For details and guides, visit https://dontkillmyapp.com/.

Xiaomi phones require special permissions to open whitelisted apps. Follow our guide here: https://team.urbandroid.org/ddc-fix-whitelisted-apps-on-xiaomi/.

Automation
To start detox automatically from Tasker or similar:
- broadcast
- package: com.urbandroid.ddc
- action: com.urbandroid.ddc.START_DETOX
- time_extra: number of millies

Example:
adb shell am broadcast --el time_extra 60000 -a com.urbandroid.ddc.START_DETOX

Accessibility Service
To effectively block you from using the addictive and distracting apps the "Digital Detox" app may ask you to enable its Accessibility Service if you decide to use the cheating protection features.
We only use this service to block you from leaving an ongoing Detox without paying an accountability fee or using a quit code (the cheating). We do not use the service to collect any personal information.
See how the use of Accessibility Service works in Digital Detox: https://youtu.be/XuJeqvyEAYw

Device Admin
If granted by the user, the "Digital Detox" app may use the Device Administrator permission to (and only to) prevent users from cheating - make uninstalling of the app during an active Detox harder.

Ratings and reviews

This app is really helpful, especially for my sleep. I was having trouble leaving my phone alone in bed, and it was affecting my sleep. Now I start a 2 hour challenge, and set my phone aside. Knowing I can't touch my phone without paying, even a small amount, really does help. Before too long, I drift off. I'm really pleased with this app. Edited to add: I've started having a problem where it starts but the timer doesn't count down and after the time I set (usually 4 hours) I have to hit "quit"

This is my favorite tech limiting app and I've tried a lot of them! It's got every feature I need, a super simple interface, and the devs always reply to emails if there's any issues. I don't just use this for a full detox, but it's also my app for scheduling focus times. You can set several different options like "work" and "family time" (you can edit the labels), and then use these for separate automatic schedules that block what you don't need for that time of the day. Perfect app, thank you!

right now there's a setting to increase the amount of breaks you get for every day you do a detox. BUT I have never used detox for more than a day. In order for the setting to be helpful for me, and I suspect others, the setting should be adding extra breaks every 6 or 12 hours. This would allow flexibility for the app to be used short-term, or long-term. For the short term, could have my default number of breaks set. but if I wanted to do a several day one I could get breaks every 6 hours.

What’s new

Fixes in widget
Material Expressive Redesign
Expressive icon set
Round font
Settings button in status bar
Fix for starting a detox in middle of previous detox
More translations
New libraries