Features
The toolkit for unbreakable focus.
Block apps, set strict limits, or add intentional friction. Whatever you block, lock or limit, Finite Phone's architecture ensures you can't bypass it in a moment of weakness.
Block apps
Out of sight. Out of reach.
Finite Phone doesn't just put a timer over your distracting apps; it completely hides them from your home screen and app drawer. The app won't open, and the visual trigger is gone, though your data stays safely on your phone. A block covers the whole app, and you can block one from our list before it's installed.
Block websites
Block specific sites or ready-made lists.
Type in a specific culprit like reddit.com, or block a ready-made list like Social media. The browsers other than Chrome that we know of are hidden, and Chrome follows your blocks. No list shows its sites, so each has a box that checks one. Blocks don't reach pages inside another app's own window.
Unblocking
The 48-hour unblock rule.
If you decide you need an app back, tap Unblock. It comes back 48 hours later, and you can keep it blocked until then. Your phone will remind you an hour before it comes back, or at 9 PM the evening before if it would come back between 10 PM and 9 AM. No shortcuts, no cheat codes.
Lock
Scheduled and timed locks.
Lock a problem app for anything from a quick 15-minute focus session to 24 hours, or set a recurring schedule, like every night from 9 PM to 7 AM. Once a lock starts, there is no early escape, not even from us. Shortening or deleting a schedule takes 48 hours.
Daily limits
Daily limits with zero snooze buttons.
Set a daily allowance for minutes spent or times opened. When your budget is used up, the app locks until 4 AM, even if you are actively scrolling. There is no "give me 5 more minutes" button. Lowering a limit takes effect now, but raising or removing it takes 48 hours.
Second Thought
The Second Thought interceptor.
Break mindless muscle memory with a waiting screen of 10 to 60 seconds before an app opens. The wait gets longer with each open that day, up to a minute. Firmer levels ask why you're opening it, and the firmest has you type a short phrase. You can always go on. Making it gentler or removing it takes 24 hours.
In gray
Grayscale for infinite feeds.
Make infinite feeds less appealing. While an app with In gray on is open, your screen turns entirely black and white. The rest of your phone remains in full color. Its In gray switch, in the Finite Phone app, turns off at once.
Essential apps are always safe.
Finite Phone won't block or lock the phone's basic apps, or apps Google Play lists under Finance, Medical, Health and Fitness, Maps and Navigation, or Tools. A few trading and betting apps can be blocked, and so can one of these apps if you ask us to check it and it isn't one people need. There's no emergency pass, so don't block an app you'd need in an emergency.
Computer-secured setup.
To ensure you can't bypass your blocks, Finite Phone requires a setup of about 10 to 15 minutes using a computer and a data cable. This makes Finite Phone your phone's "device owner," locking it in at the system level. The computer needs Chrome or Edge, and you need it only for setup. You sign out of the phone's accounts, then sign back in. The phone isn't wiped, and afterward it says Finite Phone manages it.
The anti-cheat system in action
We built this to outsmart your midnight impulses. Here is how Finite Phone handles common bypass attempts:
Delete a blocked app and install it again
It's hidden again as soon as it installs.
Open a blocked app from recent apps or a pop-up window
It won't open, because a blocked app is hidden.
Turn off accessibility access
Finite Phone doesn't use it.
Use another browser
The browsers other than Chrome that we know of are hidden.
Install an app from a website
Apps install from Google Play, or the Galaxy Store on a Galaxy. An app from anywhere else is hidden.
Install a new app
It's open until you block it.
Uninstall Finite Phone
Android won't let you while Finite Phone manages the phone.
Change the date and time
Those settings are turned off, and Finite Phone keeps time from our server.
Start in safe mode, or add a second user
Both are turned off.
Turn off a permission
Blocks and locks don't depend on one.
If you turn off usage access, apps with a daily limit stay locked until it's back on. Second Thought and In gray stop working until then.
Use a VPN
Website blocks still apply.
Use another phone, a tablet or a computer
Finite Phone covers only the phone you set up.
The ways out, and what they take
Unblocking anything you blocked is always possible, but it is never instant.
- Unblock an app or a site
- 48 hours from when you ask. You can keep it blocked until then.
- Remove Finite Phone
- Removing it takes 48 hours, from your account page. How removal works
- Factory reset the phone
- It removes Finite Phone right away, and erases everything on the phone.
- Stop after the free challenge
- Nothing. If you don't add a card, Finite Phone comes off your phone 30 days after setup.
- Cancel your subscription
- It stops the renewal. If you add a card and then cancel, Finite Phone comes off the phone 48 hours after your challenge or paid year ends. Removing Finite Phone is separate, and doesn't cancel your subscription.
Block it tonight. It's still blocked in the morning.
Free 30-day challenge, no card needed. $29 a year if you keep it.
