Unrush

EGI AI Labs

About this app

Retrain your brain. Reclaim your time. Re-engage with reality.

Unrush is not just another app blocker. It is a digital wellbeing instrument designed to help you break the dopamine-driven scroll loop and rebuild your capacity for deep focus.

Modern apps are engineered to trigger constant dopamine spikes, leading to habit loops that are hard to break with willpower alone. Unrush helps by inserting a "mindful pause" between your impulse to scroll and the action itself.

HOW UNRUSH WORKS When you reach for a distracting app out of habit, Unrush intervenes with a calm, non-aggressive pause screen. Instead of a hard block, it asks a simple question: "Is this intentional?"

By requiring a brief breathing exercise or a conscious tap challenge before granting access, Unrush gives your prefrontal cortex time to re-engage, effectively retraining your neural pathways over time.

CORE FEATURES

• Mindful Interventions: Choose from different "unlock" challenges—including rhythmic breathing, tap sequences, or tilt-and-hold games—designed to settle your nervous system before you open a distracting app. • Focus Garden: A living, evolving environment that grows imperceptibly as you build better habits. There are no "points" or "levels" the garden simply reflects your consistency and stillness. • Clarity Dashboard: View meaningful metrics without the noise. Track your Focus Score and see exactly how many hundreds of minutes you've saved from the scroll. • Custom Boundaries: Easily designate which apps require a mindful pause and which remain always accessible.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN Unrush is built on a foundation of absolute privacy. • Zero Data Transmission: No personal data, app usage, or behavioral patterns ever leave your device. • No Accounts Required: Use the app immediately without signing up or sharing your email. • Local Processing: All "mindful interventions" and statistics are calculated and stored locally on your phone.

Accessibility Service Disclosure: Unrush uses the AccessibilityService API to provide its core digital wellbeing functionality. We use this service to: • Monitor which apps are currently in the foreground to detect when a blocked app is opened. • Show a mindful intervention screen (overlay) to help you pause and rethink your app usage. • Intervene and block access to distracting apps to protect your focus and time.

Privacy Note on Accessibility: We take your privacy seriously. The Accessibility Service is used ONLY for the purposes mentioned above. We do NOT read, store, or transmit any sensitive data, screen content, keystrokes, passwords, or personal messages. All processing happens locally and securely on your device.

What’s new

- Native Android background app blocking via stable Accessibility and Foreground Services.
- Added Focus Gate: enforce a 10s delay and commit to a task before accessing blocked apps.
- Focus Garden updates: Watch your garden evolve through 7 stages as you stay mindful.
- Standardized zero-padded date logging and resolved dark mode/provider key mismatches.