Be Focused: Reels, App Blocker

Be Focused stops Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts the moment they open, while the rest of Instagram and YouTube keeps working. It does the same for any app or website that eats your day, on the hours you choose.

Use it as a reels blocker, shorts blocker, app blocker and website blocker. Your screen time sits on the Analytics tab and, with the new widgets, on your home screen.

BLOCK REELS & SHORTS

Pick one of three ways for each platform:

• Block entirely: Reels or Shorts stop the moment you open them

• Daily time limit: watch for the minutes you set, from 1 to 180, then they stop for the day

• Scroll-block: watch the one video a friend sent you, and the next swipe ends it

Free for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikTok. Premium adds 15 more: Facebook Reels and Stories, Snapchat Spotlight and Stories, X videos, Reddit, VK Clips, Instagram Stories, WhatsApp Status and Channels, and search in Instagram, Facebook, X, Telegram and your browser's image search.

APP BLOCKER AND DAILY LIMITS

• Block apps all day, give one a daily time limit, open it only at set hours, or close it at set hours

• A heads-up arrives a few minutes before a limit runs out

• 5 apps free, unlimited with Premium

WEBSITE BLOCKER

• Block websites in your browser, subdomains included

• Block a keyword, and every web address or search containing it stays closed

• 5 websites and 5 keywords free, unlimited with Premium

FRICTION SHIELD

Before a tempting app opens, Be Focused asks you to wait a few seconds or answer a quick math question. You choose how long the app then stays open and how many opens a day you get, so opening Instagram becomes a decision you make on purpose.

USAGE REMINDERS

After a stretch of Reels or Shorts, a check-in asks whether to keep watching or stop here.

FOCUS BREAK

Pick the apps you need and set a timer from 5 minutes to 2 hours. Everything else stays locked until the timer ends. Save the group for your next study session or workday.

SCREEN TIME TRACKER

• Screen time and app opens for every app, by day, week and month

• Tap an app on the chart to set its limit

• Your screen time data stays on your phone

HOME SCREEN WIDGETS (NEW)

• Today's screen time on your home screen, updated through the day

• One tap starts a Focus Break or the Panic Button

• Premium widgets: today's top apps, time left on every limit, Reels stopped, and screen time with Focus Break

PANIC BUTTON

Tap three times and your phone locks for 5 to 60 minutes, with box breathing on screen. Emergency calls still work.

KEEP YOUR BLOCKS ON

• Block Uninstallation (Premium) keeps Be Focused installed and running, with its permissions on, until the date you pick or until you enter your key

• Block new app installs, so a fresh download can't get around your rules

• Block restarts from the power menu

• Block split screen (Premium)

FREE AND PREMIUM

Free: Reels and Shorts blocking for Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, 5 app limits, 5 websites and 5 keywords, Friction Shield, Focus Break, the Panic Button, screen time and 5 widgets.

Premium: all 18 platforms, unlimited apps, websites and keywords, Block Uninstallation, split-screen blocking and 6 more widgets. Weekly, monthly, yearly or lifetime.

MADE FOR

Students in exam season, anyone cutting back on doomscrolling or phone addiction, people on a digital detox, and anyone who wants to stop scrolling at midnight.

PERMISSIONS

Be Focused uses the Accessibility Service to see which app or page is open, so it can stop Reels, Shorts, apps and websites as they appear. Usage Access powers screen time. Block Uninstallation uses Device Administrator, which you can switch off once its lock ends.

Setup takes about two minutes. Download Be Focused and set your first block.