Ghost your distractions.

A saved bundle of apps, websites and keywords you can switch on in one tap. Eleven ship with the app: seven editable starters like Social Media, Gaming and Shopping, plus four locked safety lists covering adult content, gambling, addictive substances and gore. You can build your own, and new apps you install can be added to a block list automatically.

Blocking that starts without being asked. Pick a trigger and what it blocks, and the rule runs itself. There are 16 triggers: time, monthly dates, wake-up, app usage, screen time, open limit, pomodoro, calendar meetings, charging, battery level, screen on, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location, movement and the AI off-topic guardian. Every one is evaluated on the device, so they keep firing with Appcognito closed and survive a restart.

A Habit is a promise you keep daily. A digital one is refereed by your rules, so there is no self-reporting: a day counts only if every rule held. A physical one, like drinking water or going to the gym, is your own check-in. Put a term on a Habit and it becomes a Challenge with milestones, a countdown and an honest verdict, where a slip resets the run instead of quietly forgiving it. Three Challenges are free on every device for life, and Pro unlocks the rest.

NFC stickers or QR codes you pair with Appcognito, each with one job. A Switch turns rules and block lists on and off with a tap, an Unlock key opens blocked apps from the block screen, and a Check in logs a habit. NFC tags work even with the app closed. Tags are Pro, and they do nothing in Strict mode or under a parental lock.

Blocking with no back door. Turn it on and a block runs its full course: no pause, no snooze, no quietly toggling it off mid-session. A rule cannot be paused, stopped or deleted, a focus session runs to its timer, and a challenge runs to its last day. Leaving Strict mode itself takes 12 or 24 hours, so the decision is never made in the weak moment.

A cure for the unconscious unlock. Every time you unlock your phone, Appcognito asks which apps you actually came for: one on the free plan, up to five with Pro. Only those open until you lock it again. It turns 'I'll just check one thing' into a choice you have to make out loud.

Only what each feature needs. A local VPN powers the on-device firewall, 'Display over other apps' is what stops a blocked app opening, and usage access lets a block start after too long in an app. App blocking does not use Accessibility: that is only for the two screen-reading features, keyword blocking and the Off-topic study guardian. Sensitive permissions like device admin, calendar and location stay off until you enable a feature that uses them, and the Off-topic feature only ever sends anything if you turn on its Strict mode with your own AI key.

Most blockers are simple timers or route your data through the cloud. Appcognito blocks on-device with a real firewall, fires on 16 triggers including place, network and movement, adds accountability locks and daily habits, and never tracks you. And lifetime Pro costs $39, which is about what Freedom charges for a single year.

Appcognito has a built-in Adult Content block list that blocks over 750,000 adult sites, apps and explicit keywords on your device. Turn it on in one tap and the on-device firewall, plus real-time keyword blocking, stop explicit pages from loading in any browser. You can lock it behind a parental or partner code so it cannot be quietly switched off. Appcognito is built for Android, with an iPhone version on the roadmap.

Choose the apps you want gone and Appcognito blocks them with an on-device firewall, even while you are using other apps. You can cut an app's internet so it opens but loads nothing, or stop it opening at all. Use Quick Block for an instant one-tap block, Focus for a timed locked session, or save a block list to flip a whole set of apps on together. It works on Android, and an iPhone version is on the roadmap.

Add any site, domain or whole category to your block list and Appcognito's firewall stops it loading across every browser and app, not just one. You can also block by keyword, so pages about a topic are blocked even on sites you did not list. It blocks internet sites on Android on-device, with no account and nothing leaving your phone.

Start a Focus session to lock yourself out of distracting apps and sites for a set time, with an optional code so you cannot end it early. Block social media and games in one tap, or set up a rule so blocking begins automatically when your study hours start or you reach your desk. For the hardest cases there is the Off-topic guardian: tell it what you are studying and it reads the screen to tell work from drift, then blocks the drift.

Yes. An App usage rule blocks an app automatically once you have used it for a set number of minutes, so a quick check does not turn into an hour. There is also an Open limit trigger for apps you reopen compulsively, a whole-day Screen time cap, Focus mode's locked countdown, and an optional PIN or fingerprint app lock on top.

Yes, 7 days of full Pro with no card and no Google Play checkout. Start it whenever you like. When it ends you drop back to the free plan rather than being charged, and Appcognito keeps your most important block list and rule running so you are never left unprotected.

24, including Arabic with full right-to-left layout, Hindi, Tamil, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Thai and Vietnamese. Each one is written by a native speaker rather than run through a machine, so it reads like an app rather than a translation.

Yes. Appcognito has its own Discord community and supportive circles for beating specific habits, so you are never doing it alone. It is encouragement, accountability and shared wins, with no judgement.