Block lists

What a block list is

Three lists under one name, colour and icon:

• Apps, from what is installed on your phone.
• Websites, as domains or pasted URLs.
• Keywords, caught anywhere on screen.

A block list blocks nothing by itself. It answers what. Something else supplies the when: you tapping Block, a Focus timer, a rule, or a widget.

That split is the point. Build the Social Media list once, and every rule you write afterwards can point at it.

The 11 built-in block lists

All 11 ship filled in, on every plan, under the Kit tab. Seven you can edit, four are locked.

Starter block lists

Fully editable. Picking one gives you a normal block list, pre-filled and yours to change.

Content-safety block lists

Locked, and switchable one by one, so you can block gambling without blocking anything else.

Adult Content and Gambling are too big for the app bundle. Their lists live in a database on your phone and are checked as you browse, which is how three quarters of a million domains stays fast with no network.

Why four hide their lists

The four content-safety block lists never show their contents. Two reasons:

• Privacy. A scrollable list of adult domains does not belong on your screen.
• Relapse risk. Handing someone quitting a searchable index of what they are quitting is not a feature.

You can still add your own sites, apps and words on top, and yours stay visible. Dating is deliberately not in this set, so its list is browsable like any other.

Building your own

1. Tap +, then Block listOr Create new block list on the Block lists screen.
2. Name it, pick a colour and iconThis is what you tap on Home, so make it recognisable.
3. Add apps, sites and keywordsAny mix. A block list of just websites is fine. So is one app.
4. Decide about new appsAuto-add new apps puts anything you install into this block list from then on.

Free gives you one custom block list, and one on at a time. Pro removes both limits.

Where block lists get used

Each block list's screen lists the rules using it, plus how many times it has guarded you, how much time it protected, and how many keywords it caught.

A Switch tag can turn a block list on and off with a tap, and an Unlock key can be set to cover it. Pro. See Tags.

Editing and deleting

• A block list that is on is add-only. You can add to it, not remove from it, and you cannot delete it. Stop whatever turned it on first. Otherwise editing the list would be a back door around every block built on it.
• A block list used by a rule cannot be deleted until that rule changes. The app names the rule rather than just refusing.
• Strict mode and challenges tighten this. While either holds a rule that uses this block list, you can add but never loosen.
• Every block list is deletable, built-ins included. Deleting a built-in is permanent. Only Reset app data brings the Kit back.

Sharing and export

A block list can be exported and shared, then imported by someone else or by you on a new phone. Import is on the Block lists screen and in the + menu. Exporting your whole setup is Pro, in Settings, Data.

Sharing moves the list only. No usage, streak or stats travel with it, and it goes wherever you send it rather than through us.