Ruk: App Blocker & Screen Time

Ruk is an app blocker and screen time app that puts a few deliberate seconds between the impulse and the feed. Choose the apps that take your day. When one of them opens, Ruk gets there first.

You did not decide to open that app. Your thumb did. Most of the time a short wait is enough to notice you did not want to open it after all.

THE PAUSE

A breath. A countdown. A screen that asks you to type what you came for. Then Continue, or Not now. Nothing is hidden from you and nothing is decided for you.

WHEN A PAUSE IS NOT ENOUGH

• App blocker with daily screen time limits, per app or across a group, with a warning before you run out

• Schedules — a window where an app simply does not open, including one that crosses midnight

• Focus sessions from the app, a Quick Settings tile or a home screen widget, with an allow list for what you actually need

• Feed blocking (experimental) that stops Reels, Shorts, Explore, Stories and a home feed without closing the app they live in, so your messages and search still work. Six feeds, each one tested on a real phone — and if an app update stops one from being recognised, Ruk says so instead of pretending

• Strict mode, for the days you cannot be trusted with your own settings

IT GETS HARDER IF YOU KEEP GOING

The tenth open of the day is not the first. Pauses grow as the day repeats itself, and the screen tells you exactly why this one is longer. A Continue can buy a timebox instead of an open door, and when the box runs out Ruk asks how it went.

WHAT IT TELLS YOU AFTERWARDS

Your real screen time, per app and per hour, from Android's own figures. How many opens you abandoned. Roughly what that saved you. Which app you always open next. Days under budget, and a streak that forgives one bad day for every seven good ones.

WHAT IT NEVER DOES

No account. No sign-up. No sync. No ads. Ruk sends nothing anywhere — no server behind it, no analytics, no crash reporting. Everything stays in this phone's own storage, and uninstalling takes all of it with you.

YOU ARE NEVER TRAPPED

Every restriction has a documented way out, and a screen inside the app lists them all. Ruk never uses device admin, never hides itself, and can always be uninstalled. Strict mode can make weakening a setting wait — it can never make it impossible. Every escape is free on every plan.

FREE, AND WHAT PRO ADDS

Free watches three apps with the breathing pause, and gives you the full screen time insights, your streak and data export. Ruk Pro is a single payment, never a subscription: unlimited apps, every other kind of pause, daily limits, schedules, focus sessions, feed blocking (experimental), the attention budget and strict mode. Set anything up before you buy — it is kept exactly as you left it, and unlocking turns it on with nothing to redo.

WHAT PEOPLE USE RUK FOR

• Breaking phone addiction and the reflex to unlock for no reason

• A digital detox that does not mean deleting the app you still need

• A social media blocker for Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat and the rest

• Blocking distracting apps while studying, working or in class

• Screen time control for the evening, so the feed does not eat your sleep

• Beating procrastination without a subscription, an account or a leaderboard

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE API

Ruk uses the Accessibility Service API to detect and intervene on user-selected target apps and feeds. No personal information is collected; all data stays offline and on your device.

Ruk (رُک / रुक) means "stop, pause".