Lockout: Focus Phone Lock

Lockout locks your whole phone. Not a reminder, not a gentle nudge: a timer you can't swipe away.

Wind the dial, commit, and every app goes quiet until the timer runs out. Press Home and the lock comes straight back. Reboot the phone and the Lockdown is still there. The only way out early is a key, and keys are scarce.

THE LOCKDOWN
• Wind the dial from 5 minutes to 3 hours (up to 24 hours with Pro)
• Slide to start, confirm, then a 3-second countdown: it is never an accident
• Every app is locked until the timer ends. Only the apps in your Kit stay open
• Holds through Home, Back, Recents, app switching and reboots
• Optional hard lock with Android screen pinning, which also hides the notification shade

CALLS AND ALARMS STILL WORK
Incoming calls and alarms always come through, and the clock and dialer are never locked. A focus app that makes you miss your alarm is a broken focus app.

THE KIT
Pack up to 3 apps (6 with Pro) that stay open during a Lockdown: maps for the commute, your music, a calculator. They sit one tap away on the lock screen. Keep the Kit empty and it is the hardest lock of all: not even the home screen opens.

THE KEY: ONE HONEST WAY OUT
A real emergency costs a key, after a 30-second hold that is long enough to tell an emergency from an impulse. You start with one key and earn another for every three Lockdowns you complete (15 minutes or more), so a disciplined user never has to pay. Run out mid-Lockdown and you can get more right from the lock screen: Google Play opens for the purchase, nothing else does.

THE WALL
Every day with at least 30 minutes of completed Lockdown lays a brick. Hold your streak and the wall keeps growing; miss a day and it falls. Your streak, drawn as something you built.

REPEAT
Schedule Lockdowns that start on their own: evenings, work mornings, every other day. Set the start and end, pick the days, and stop deciding.

LOCKED TIME
Day, month and year views of every minute you locked away, plus your streak, keys used and Lockdowns ended early. Turn the month dial to read any day. All of it is computed on your phone.

LIGHT AND DARK
Lockout follows your system theme. The lock screen is always dark, easy on the eyes at night.

BUILT TO SIT IDLE
A focus app that drains your battery defeats itself. Lockout runs no foreground service and no polling loop: the countdown wakes once a minute, the lock screen sleeps when your screen does, and an idle install costs nothing.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads, no tracking
• No usage-access permission: Lockout never reads your screen time
• Your sessions, stats and settings never leave the device. The only network use is Google Play billing

LOCKOUT PRO (one-time purchase, no subscription)
• Lockdowns up to 24 hours instead of 3
• A Kit of 6 apps instead of 3
• STUDY, SLEEP and DETOX modes that pack your Kit for you
• Your own line on the lock screen
• Four accent colours
• A daily goal, plus longest, average and completed-rate stats
Keys are sold separately. Pro does not include keys, and we say so up front.

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE
Lockout uses Android's accessibility service for one purpose: to notice when a locked app comes to the foreground during a Lockdown, so the lock screen can be brought back. It reads only the package name of the foreground app. It never reads screen content, text or passwords, and nothing it sees leaves your phone. Without this permission Lockout cannot hold a lock at all. You choose whether to turn it on, and you can turn it off any time in Android Settings.

WHAT LOCKOUT CANNOT DO
We would rather be honest than oversell. Android always lets you force-stop or uninstall an app from system settings, and Lockout cannot prevent that. What it can do is make quitting slow and deliberate instead of reflexive, which for most people is the whole game.

Made for people who want their phone back.