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Finite Phone blocks the apps and websites you choose on an Android phone. Unblocking anything takes 48 hours.
If you're writing about Finite Phone, write to Allen Wood, the founder, at allen@finitephone.com. He'll add a free year to your Google account so you can test it.
Fact sheet
| What it is | An app and website blocker for Android phones |
|---|---|
| Who it's for | Adults who want to block the feeds and keep the rest of their phone |
| Made by | Adesse, LLC, a veteran-owned company in Washington State |
| Founder | Allen Wood. He also founded Bluejacketeer, which helped more than 50,000 sailors prepare for the Navy-wide advancement exam. Kaplan bought it in 2021. |
| Launched | October 2026 |
| Price | $29 a year |
| Free challenge | 30 days, no card needed, then $29 a year |
| Phones | A Pixel 6 or newer, or a Samsung Galaxy phone, on Android 14 or newer. It doesn't work on iPhones. We're adding Motorola phones next. |
| Sold in | The United States only |
| Where to get it | finitephone.com. It isn't on Google Play. |
| Setup | Done once, from a computer with Chrome or Edge, with the phone on its USB cable. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes. You sign out of every account on the phone and sign back in after. Setup doesn't wipe the phone, but passkeys and authenticator codes that aren't synced may not come back. |
| Removal | There's no off switch on the phone. You remove Finite Phone on your account page. It comes off the phone 48 hours later. You can change your mind any time before then. A factory reset also removes it right away, and erases everything on the phone. |
| Press contact | Allen Wood, allen@finitephone.com |
About Finite Phone
Short
Finite Phone is software that blocks the apps and websites you choose on an Android phone. Unblocking anything takes 48 hours.
Long
Finite Phone blocks the apps and websites you choose on an Android phone. Unblocking anything takes 48 hours, and nothing shortens the wait. It's made for adults who want to block the feeds and keep the rest of their phone. It costs $29 a year and is sold in the United States. Finite Phone is made by Adesse, LLC, a veteran-owned company in Washington State founded by Allen Wood.
How it works
Setup makes Finite Phone the phone's device owner, the Android role made for managing work phones. That lets it hide the apps you block, apply your website blocks to the browser, and turn off the settings you could use to get around them. It doesn't use root or accessibility access.
The lock screen then says the phone belongs to Finite Phone, and Settings says Finite Phone manages it. Android also shows its own notice about managed phones, which no app can turn off.
When setup finishes, only a few things are blocked. Apps installed from outside Google Play and, on a Galaxy, the Galaxy Store are hidden. So are the browsers other than Chrome that we know of. A few sites built to get around blocks won't open. The home screen's search bar searches your apps instead of the web. Everything else stays open until you pick it.
What happens if you try to get around it
| If you try to | What happens |
|---|---|
| Delete a blocked app and install it again | It's hidden again as soon as it installs. |
| Use another browser | Other browsers are hidden. |
| 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. |
| Uninstall Finite Phone | Android won't let you while Finite Phone manages the phone. |
Every case, on the Features page
What it doesn't do
- It never blocks calls, texts, maps or banking, or the camera and tap-to-pay.
- It blocks whole apps and websites, not parts of an app. It can't block Reels inside Instagram, for example.
- It covers only the phone you set up, not a tablet or a computer.
- It isn't a parental control. It's made for adults to put on their own phone.
Allen Wood
Allen Wood founded Finite Phone. When he came home from a Navy tour overseas in 2011, he noticed how much more people were looking down at their phones. For years after, he switched between a smartphone and a dumb phone. He built Finite Phone to have one phone that does the everyday things, with no endless feeds.
He also founded Bluejacketeer, which helped more than 50,000 sailors prepare for the Navy-wide advancement exam. Kaplan bought it in 2021.
Pictures and video
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Logo
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Screenshots
Screenshots from a Pixel 10a, taken in October 2026.
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Videos
Seven short animated demos, each showing one task. They're animations of the app's own screens and words, not recordings of a phone.
| Video | Download |
|---|---|
| Block an app | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 30 seconds, 1.5 MB |
| Unblock an app, or keep it blocked | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 26 seconds, 1.5 MB |
| Block a list of websites | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 26 seconds, 1.5 MB |
| Block one website | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 22 seconds, 1.2 MB |
| Lock an app | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 33 seconds, 1.5 MB |
| Set a daily limit | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 34 seconds, 1.5 MB |
| Add a pause before an app opens | MP4, 1080 x 1350, 38 seconds, 1.5 MB |