Locknest

Locknest

Lock in. Tune out. Now on Google Play.

Get it on Google Play

How much of your life is the phone taking?

Drag to your daily screen time.

4.2 years of the next 20 years, at 5 hours a day — 6.3 years of your waking life.

Kids feel it first

  • 🌙Shorter, poorer sleep from late-night screens.
  • 🧠Weaker attention and impulse control with heavy use.
  • 🏃Less play, less outdoors — and more short-sightedness.
  • 💬Slower language growth when screens replace conversation.

Pediatric guidance: about one hour a day of screens for ages 2 to 5, and none before 18 months.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

Locknest gives the hours back

  • 📅Block the apps that eat your time on a schedule — work, study, bedtime.
  • ⏱️Quick Block for focus right now; Strict Mode so you can't cave.
  • 📈See where the time really goes, and set limits for your kids.
  • 🛡️Free, no account needed. Your usage stays on your phone.

💡 Sign-up is optional. Here is the difference:

👤 As a guest

  • Block apps on schedules
  • Quick Block — timer & Pomodoro
  • Strict Mode
  • App Lock & a Locknest PIN
  • Insights & weekly report
  • Nothing to remember, no email
  • Occasional short ads, only between actions

✅ With a free account

  • Everything a guest gets
  • Fewer ads
  • Rules & settings follow you to a new phone
  • Restore everything after a reinstall
  • Family controls for a child’s device
  • Children never see ads

Locknest is free, with nothing to buy. Occasional short ads appear only between actions and are limited each day — and a free account sees fewer of them. Never over a screen you are using, and never to children.

You can create an account any time from Home — nothing is lost by starting as a guest.

Get it on Google Play

Free on Google Play for Android 7.0 and newer. Nothing to buy, no account needed.

To block apps, Locknest needs Usage Access — which reads which apps you open and for how long — and permission to draw over other apps, to show the block screen. That usage data stays on your device and is never sold. Two exceptions, both deliberate: an anonymous install ID and app version are sent on launch so we can ship updates and config, and if a parent manages this device the apps used and for how long are shared with them.