Bedside: Sleep & Focus

Bedside is a personal focus tool for the hours before sleep. You choose which apps keep you up at night (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, dating apps — your call) and when your sleep window is. Bedside blocks them during that window, and makes unlocking a little inconvenient on purpose.

This is for you, not for watching anyone else. Blocking is done by a system-level service on your device — it never reads screen content and collects no data.

Why bother:
· Willpower and "I'll put it down in 5 minutes" don't work
· Built-in app timers are too easy to dismiss
· A tiny friction step — a forced pause of a few seconds before you can continue — is often enough to put the phone down

What it does:
1. Block windows — set nightly schedules (e.g. 22:00 – 07:00); crosses midnight; multiple windows allowed.
2. Calm-down countdown — when you open a blocked app, the block screen makes you wait a few seconds first. Really need it? Continue for a few minutes, then blocking resumes automatically.
3. Always a way out — need more time? Watch a short ad to unlock a few extra minutes (the full version is a one-time purchase that removes ads). Real emergencies are never locked out.
4. Beyond bedtime — set continuous-use breaks for daytime scrolling, and get a morning review of how last night went (a clean night gets a little celebration).
5. Fully local — no account, no servers, no uploads. Your app selections and usage stay on your device.

Bedside is not an ad blocker, not an enterprise management tool, not for managing someone else's device — only yours.

Bedside uses Android's AccessibilityService API to make blocking work: it detects which app is currently open, checks whether it falls inside your sleep window or has exceeded your continuous-use limit, and if so covers it with a block screen. This permission is required for the core blocking feature.

Bedside never collects, stores, or uploads any screen content or personal information through this service. All rules stay on this device.