Get the app
Locknest is live on Google Play. Install it free on any Android phone running 7.0 or newer — there is nothing to buy and no account to create.
Package com.plycoder.locknest
What Locknest is
A digital-wellbeing app for Android that keeps you out of the apps that eat your time — during work, study, or before bed — and shows you where your screen time really goes.
Everything works without an account. Your rules and your usage stay on your phone; we only receive an anonymous install ID and app version so we can ship updates and configuration.
Why it exists
Five hours a day on a phone is more than four years of the next twenty — over six years of waking life. Children feel it first: shorter, poorer sleep from late-night screens, weaker attention and impulse control with heavy use, less play and outdoors time, and slower language growth when screens replace conversation. Pediatric guidance is about one hour a day of screens for ages 2 to 5, and none before 18 months.
What it does
Schedules
Block chosen apps — or every app — in a time window, under a daily usage limit, after a number of opens, or all day. Repeat weekly, on one date, or across a date range. Start from a template in one tap.
Quick Block
Need focus right now? Pick apps and a timer, or run Pomodoro rounds with breaks. It ends on its own — no schedule needed.
Strict Mode
Lock your rules for 12 hours to a week so you can't turn them off in a weak moment. Choose a PIN exit, or no early exit at all.
Insights
Screen time by hour, by day and as a trend, your most-used apps, a weekly report, and an optional mood check-in.
App Lock
Put a PIN on apps like banking or chat, and on Locknest itself.
Family controls
With an account, a parent can manage a child's device: set downtime and blocks remotely and see their screen time. Children are never shown ads.
Free, with nothing to buy
Locknest is free. There is no subscription, no purchase and nothing to earn: every feature is available from the moment you install it, for as long as you like. It is supported by occasional short interstitial ads shown only between actions — before a new rule is saved, or when a block is released — never at launch, never over a screen you are using, and never to children. They are limited each day, and a free account sees fewer of them.
Sign-up is optional. Here is the difference:
As a guest
- Block apps on schedules — time windows, daily limits, opens, all day
- Quick Block — a timer or Pomodoro rounds
- Strict Mode
- App Lock for other apps, and a Locknest PIN
- Insights & the 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 — manage a child’s device and see their screen time
- Children never see ads
You can create an account any time from Home — nothing is lost by starting as a guest.
Your privacy
Screen-time data read through Android Usage Access stays on your device unless a parent manages that device, in which case the apps used and for how long are shared with them. We never sell personal data. The full Privacy Policy lists exactly what we collect and why.
Requirements
Android 7.0 or newer, installed from Google Play. To block apps Locknest needs Usage Access (to know which app is open) and permission to draw over other apps (to show the block screen); notifications are optional. The app asks for each one and explains it before the system prompt.
Contact
Locknest is made by Md Mahabubur Rahman, an independent developer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Questions, feedback or support: tulx.app@gmail.com.