Spend 30 years on your phone?
It's time to take back
your focus.
Block the apps that waste your day — and the moment you unlock, your friends know.
No credit card · Privacy-safe · No login required
See BlockTime in action.
30 seconds. Watch the whole flow in motion.
It's time to take back your focus.
I'm a developer. My willpower checked out a long time ago. So I asked the friend next to me to fine me ten bucks every time I touched my phone. It worked better than any app I'd tried. That's when it hit me — the problem was never willpower. It was witnesses. So I built it into an app. BlockTime is now in beta.
This is just the beginning.
We're building toward something bigger — focus you do with friends, not against them. Staying off your phone should feel less like white-knuckling it alone and more like showing up for the people you actually want to spend time with. Every hour you keep together adds up to something real — something you can both point at.
We want the block-and-unblock loop itself to feel like play. We're adding game mechanics to focus, so being present becomes the thing you want to do — not the thing you're forcing yourself through.
At your current screen-time average,
you've spent 159 days of this year on your phone.
Keep this up and 31 years of your life will go to a screen.
Yes — you read that right.
Willpower breaks
in the same spot, every time.
"Just 5 minutes" → an hour
Unlock once and the next time gets easier. And the next.
A failure no one sees
If no one knows you slipped, it doesn't really count. So you slip again.
Tomorrow, same self-loathing
"Tomorrow for sure." Same pattern, different day.
Quitting alone doesn't work.
Quitting with someone watching does.
3 steps. 5 minutes to set up.
Pick the apps and the hours
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter… choose the windows yourself — weekdays 9-6, evenings, all day.
Invite the friends quitting with you
2 to 5 people. Your roommate, the friend prepping the same exam, the one always up at 2 am — anyone.
The instant you unlock, everyone gets pinged
"Sam just unlocked Instagram." That's the whole feature. We don't block you — we just make sure no slip is invisible.
"Someone is watching"
changes everything.
Not a hunch — a repeatedly-validated effect in behavioral psychology.
lift in self-control behaviors when peers can observe
Peer effect study · 2019The time
you'd get back.
Based on a 4-hour daily screen-time average — what BlockTime hands back when you and your friends quit together.
One payment.
1 year free.
Subscription plans come later — until then, only 1-year passes: pay once, keep it for a year. Start with a 2-week free trial.
Try the basics.
- 1 block group
- Quiz unlock only
- Today's report only
- Join friend groups (no creating)
- 7-day streak history
Pay once, keep it for a year.
- 10 block groups — split work, study, sleep
- Math, penalty & 🔥 stake — every unlock style
- 5 friend groups (up to 4 each)
- Weekly heatmap report
- Streak alerts
- Dark theme (coming soon)
About ⅕ the price of competitor lifetime plans
Every future feature included — for the full year.
- ✨ Every future feature, free for 1 year
- Everything in Pro
- 🎮 Quest & mission-style unlocks (coming soon)
- 🏆 Founders badge + nickname color
Items marked (coming soon) ship in future updates.
Active beta users get a shot at Founders status (1 year free)
Use BlockTime regularly during beta and we'll comp the Founders 1-year pass — no payment.
50% off for students
Verify with a student email and every plan is half the price.
Last hesitations.
iOS or Android?
Does it actually prevent me from unlocking?
Free for a year — really?
Is my data safe?
How do I get in touch?
One decision,
before you sleep tonight.
Tomorrow you're one of two people: the one scrolling again, or the one who finally stopped.
Hop in early.
Build it with us.
Where we figure out which features matter, find people to quit with, and chat directly with the founder — before the beta even ships.