esc. AI App Blocker That Talks

Vecti Tech

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About this app

esc. locks your phone, or just the apps you pick, while you focus or sleep. And you can talk to it.

• Focus: lock for as long as you set.
• Sleep: locks every night at the times you choose.
• Whole phone or only the apps that pull you in.
• Need an app? Tell esc. why. A real reason opens that one app for 5 minutes.
• Talk by voice or text. Change your settings just by saying it.
• esc. remembers what you're working on, only if you say yes.
• Calls, alarms and Phone always get through.
• Home-screen widget: one tap to talk to esc.

A real task in any app gets a 5-minute pass: one per 40 minutes of the lock, at most 4, with 15 minutes between them. Being lost, getting home, paying or a login code always opens. A refused try costs nothing.

You get ten messages each time you try to open a closed app and talk to esc. In a chat you open from Home you get 20. On top of that, at most 20 replies in any 30 minutes. Talking to esc. is not meant to become the new way to spend the time you closed.

WHAT IT IS NOT
Not a coach. Not a therapist or a companion. Not an accessibility aid.

HOW esc. USES ACCESSIBILITY
To close apps, esc. needs Accessibility. It only sees which app is open, so it can bring you back here. It never reads your screen or messages. When you chat, those app names go to esc.'s AI provider so it can reply. It does not read screen text, messages, notifications, passwords, contacts, or content inside other apps. The app asks first, with two buttons: Agree and Don't allow. A session you start stays closed until the time you chose, 12 hours at most, and you can't end it early. Phone always works. When no whole-phone session is running you can turn Accessibility off in Android Settings, and esc. stops closing apps until you turn it back on.

WHERE YOUR CHAT GOES
To reply, esc. sends your messages, not your screen, to OpenAI through its own server. That is your current message, up to six recent messages from the chat, your mode and session counts, and the name of the app that was closed. esc. keeps your chats only if you say OK: then they stay on its server for 30 days so we can fix bad replies, are never used to train a model, and you can delete them any time in Privacy. If you talk by voice and the phone can't make out your words, the recording goes the same way to OpenAI to be turned into text, and is not kept. Replies read aloud are made by OpenAI from the reply text. OpenAI does not train on them by default and may keep them for up to 30 days to check for abuse. esc. asks you before the first message is sent. If you send feedback, what you write goes to the esc. inbox. Crash reports without personal details go to Sentry.

What’s new

New look, esc. now knows any app you name, asks before it remembers you, and warns before the message limit.