Unpluq: Control Your Time

In-app purchases
4.1
806 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Unpluq helps you focus and feel better by recovering your time. Reduce your screen time by stopping your habit of picking up your phone–and stop scrolling. Recover your time, focus, and attention by making a conscious choice every time you want to access an app. The average Unpluq customer saves more than 1 hour and 22 minutes a day of screen time.* Try it a week and see how it changes your life!

Unplug Free: Available to Everyone, Always
Get off your screen, and back into your life.
- Block 2 apps
- Use 1 Schedule–all the time, during work, on the weekend, or after hours
- Choose from 2 Barriers: Choose to tap buttons or shake your phone to unblock apps

Unpluq Premium Subscription ⭐️
Save 2x as much time with premium.
- Unlimited: block apps–as many as you like
- Unlimited: schedules–work schedule, weekend schedule, you decide what works best for you
- Whitelist contacts, so notifications from them always get through
- All Barriers: Use all the available barrier options, including the patented Unpluq Tag, the keyfob that keeps you focused, as well as Walking (Steps), Scrolling, Charging, Random, or QR code barriers.

Block Apps 🚫 When You Need To
- Stay focused
- Focus during work
- Disconnect after hours
- Be present for family meals
- Avoid working on the weekends
- Study uninterrupted
- Be more mindful every day
- Sleep and rest well
- Reduce stress
- Lower anxiety

Use Unpluq To 🎯
- Block distracting apps and notifications–by default
- Choose only the apps you want to block
- Unblock apps by making a conscious decision with an Unpluq distraction barrier
- Select the distraction barrier you prefer, or go RANDOM to make it harder
- Choose how it is to access your apps
- Block different apps on different schedules
- Track your progress and understand your screen time

❓How Unpluq Works
Select which apps to block, and when. If you need to access a blocked app, make a conscious choice to open it by passing through an Unpluq Distraction Barrier–a digital key that makes you think twice and ensure you really do want to open that app. To open blocked apps, you need to take a walk, shake your phone, follow a random pattern by tapping, charge your phone, or use the Unpluq Tag keyfob (the most effective barrier).

Choose Your Distraction Barrier 🚧 –and make it as hard as you want
- Take a walk/steps
- Shake your phone
- Tap a random pattern of buttons
- Scroll through space
- Random barrier
- Scan a unique QR code
- Use your Unpluq Tag on your keychain

Use Your Newly Recovered Free Time To 🚀🏄👭🎾👪📈
- See friends
- Workout
- Side hustle like a boss
- Spend time with family
- Learn a new language

The Unpluq Tag 🟨
Already have an Unpluq Tag? Pair your Tag with the app. The NFC powered yellow Tag fits on your keychain and works with your app. Science like Rational Override Theory shows that this physical ritual to get virtual control of your phone is the most effective way to change your screen time habits.

*The average Unpluq customer in March 2023 saves 78 minutes a day.

Unpluq vs Opal
Unpluq is different from Opal: our focus is habit change to reduce screen time instead of only helping you focus. Our unique barriers that are different than Opal, like steps, or the physical Unpluq Tag-- it taps into the science behind habit change, and is the most effective way to reduce screen time.

Unpluq vs AppBlock
Unpluq is different from AppBlock: free and paid subscriptions have different limits, app blocking uses different unblocking options, including the physical Unpluq Tag patented by Unpluq. Different from Appblock, the Tag taps into habit change to stop scrolling.

Privacy🔒
We care about your privacy and take steps to protect it. Unpluq does not sell or share your data–personal or not. Having our customer’s with privacy in mind and protecting them is one of our core values. See Privacy Policy: https://www.unpluq.com/privacy-policy
Updated on
Mar 26, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Contacts and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.1
795 reviews
Emily Smoler Coelho
January 21, 2024
I love this app to the point that im willing to subscribe. But it's not giving me the option. Every time I try to go premium, it keeps buging the app. I have no idea how to get my subscription anymore. Even through the computer, the site only takes orders with the tag, which I don’t want to buy. Even if I wanted to buy it, it says free shipment globally in 2 weeks, but it doesn't give the option of the country I want to ship it to.
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Unpluq
January 22, 2024
Hi Emily, happy to help here--restarting your phone will likely solve the purchase problem, which is something we're trying to fix, but that usually solves it. Re: Tag + Shipping country, let me know where you're wanting it shipped, if you decide you do want it, and I'm always happy to help at tim.smits@unpluq.com. I usually respond same day.
Matt Stedwell
March 4, 2024
Best app I've found so far for reducing screen time. I used to spend a lot of time on Reddit and YouTube, but this app has almost completely eliminated my reddit and YouTube usage with it's "walk" barrier where if I want to unlock YouTube or reddit, I have to walk 85 steps. I have yet to. E motivated enough to walk 85 steps to open these apps, which has actually allowed me to go us more on other activities off of my phone. I've already recommended to friends and family.
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VinceL
January 31, 2024
Pretty awesome app. It adds the right amount of friction to catch impulsive browsing and gives you a moment to reflect, but it's still possible to push through the captcha when you need to look something up or have a legitimate reason to navigate to the blocked app.
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What's new

Questions? Something not right? support@unpluq.com - we read every mail.
- Getting started is now faster
- Returning users can sign in and start faster
- Big update: More section of app is reorganized for clarity
- Bug fixes