SlothLock

You unlock your phone to check the time. Twenty minutes later you're watching someone explain why their cat hates Mondays. We've all been there.

SlothLock doesn't shame you. It just slows you down by making you beat a 30-second mini-game before any blocked app opens. By the time you've sorted the colored balls, the urge has usually passed. And if it hasn't, fine, the app opens. But maybe today you'll do something else.

Meet Sbrebols

Sbrebols is your sloth. He starts out tiny and clueless, levels up alongside you through 50 ranks (Cucciolo → Esploratore → Maestro → Leggenda → Bradipo Cosmico), and visually evolves across 10 stages. By the end, he's basically a cosmic god of slowness. We're not exaggerating: the art genuinely changes 10 times.

The 11 mini-games

The challenge is picked at random each time, so the rotation keeps you guessing. A few of them:

• Color Match: sort balls by their written color, not their actual color. The Stroop effect is brutal.
• Memory: find the matching pairs of lazy animals.
• Bubble Pop: pop only the even ones. Or only the odd ones. The rule changes.
• Slide Puzzle: push tiles to their matching corners.
• Letter Rain: tap the symbol that's about to land.
• Balance: hold your phone perfectly still. Surprisingly hard.
• Shake: exactly what it sounds like.

The other four (Pattern, Timing, Number Sort, Fruit Count) are equally weird. You'll find your favorites.

How blocking works

Pick the apps you want to put behind a wall: Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, whatever's eating your day. When you tap one, SlothLock intercepts. Beat the challenge, get a temporary unlock (1 to 30 minutes, you decide), then the wall comes back. There's also an optional rule that only blocks apps when ambient light is dim, handy if you only want help during late-night scroll spirals.

The reward stuff

Daily streaks. XP that compounds. 50+ badges across milestones, challenge mastery (master / expert / legend per mini-game), streak length, and a few oddly specific special unlocks. Sbrebols levels up with you.

There's also a quietly satisfying counter that goes up every time you opened a blocked app, saw the challenge, and just walked away. Resisted openings. Easily the most underrated stat in the app.

About your data

Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no login, no cloud, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, no telemetry of any kind. Everything (app list, stats, badges, settings) lives in a local database. Uninstall and it's all gone.

A note on permissions

SlothLock needs Android's Accessibility Service for one thing only: knowing when you've opened a blocked app. It does not read messages, passwords, or anything else on screen. We are a little obsessive about this; the Privacy Policy goes into detail. Usage Access lets the dashboard show your screen time.

Both can be turned off from Android Settings whenever you want.

It's not a magic fix. You'll still scroll sometimes. But "sometimes" beats "constantly."

Tap less. Live more. Or at least play a Stroop test before opening TikTok. 🦥