Appkage : Monitor & Block apps

Appkage helps you take back your time. Choose the apps and websites that distract you, set a focus session, and Appkage blocks them until your session ends. No willpower required — the app does the hard part for you.

Everything runs on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no data collection. Your usage data never leaves your phone.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Create a blocking profile — pick the apps and websites you want to block
2. Set a schedule or start a focus session (25 min, 45 min, 1 hour, or 90 min)
3. When you try to open a blocked app, Appkage shows a full-screen block screen instead
4. Choose a block screen experience: breathing exercise, motivational quote, custom image, or voice message
5. After your session ends, everything unlocks automatically

FEATURES

- App blocking — Block any installed app during focus sessions
- Website blocking — Block distracting websites inside your browser
- Blocking profiles — Create multiple profiles for work, study, sleep, or social media detox and switch between them instantly
- Focus sessions — Timed sessions with a countdown timer and progress tracking
- Strict mode — Prevents bypassing the block screen entirely, so there is no way around it
- Wait-to-unlock — Adds a mandatory delay (5 to 60 minutes) before you can end a session, preventing impulsive unlocking
- Customizable block screens — Choose between a breathing exercise, motivational statements, a personal image, or a recorded voice note as your block screen experience
- Screen time insights — See daily and weekly usage breakdowns by app, hourly heatmaps, 30-day trend charts, and your top offender apps
- Focus streaks — Track consecutive days with completed focus sessions
- Time saved stats — See how much focused time you have accumulated
- Blocking schedules — Set recurring schedules (e.g., block social media every weekday 9 AM to 5 PM) and blocking starts and stops automatically
- Quick block — One-tap 25-minute focus session from the dashboard
- Dark Pro theme — Deep dark mode optimized for nighttime use
- PIN protection — Optional 6-digit PIN to prevent tampering with settings
- Boot persistence — Focus sessions survive phone restarts

PRIVACY FIRST

Appkage has no backend, no analytics, no ads, and no tracking. All your data — usage stats, profiles, schedules, and settings — is stored locally on your device in an encrypted database. Nothing is ever sent over the internet. We cannot see your data because we never receive it.

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE DISCLOSURE

Appkage uses Android's Accessibility Service to detect when you open a blocked app during a focus session and display the block screen. This is the core functionality of the app — Android does not provide any other API for real-time app detection.

Data accessed through the Accessibility Service:
- Foreground app package name (to check if it is on your blocked list)
- Browser URL bar content (to check if a blocked website is being visited)

This data is processed entirely on your device in real time. It is not collected, stored, logged, sold, or transferred to any third party, except as necessary to provide the blocking feature or as required by law.

The Accessibility Service is idle when no focus session is active. When active, it performs a single local lookup per app switch (under 1 millisecond) and takes no other action.

PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

- Accessibility Service: Detects blocked app launches (core feature)
- Display over other apps: Shows the block screen reliably on all Android devices
- Usage access: Reads your screen time for the insights dashboard
- Notifications: Shows the persistent notification during active sessions
- Battery optimization exemption: Prevents Android from killing the blocking service in the background
- Exact alarms: Starts and stops scheduled blocking sessions on time

All permissions are used solely for the features described above. No data is transmitted off your device.

- Accessibility Service must be enabled for app blocking to work