Awake Feel alive · Android app

Your phone is stealing your life. Now you can see it.

Your phone is designed to hook you. Awake helps you break the trance through visual reminders that pull you back. Feel fully alive with Awake.

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How it works

You pick your life-stealing apps, how the reminder looks, and when it shows up. Then your phone does the reminding.

Pick the apps that pull you in

Choose your life-stealing apps and websites, the ones that eat your days.

Awake app selector, choosing your life-stealing apps

Pick a theme

Negative themes make the phone feel wrong: hellfire, cracking glass, crawling bugs. Positive ones like aurora and sunlight remind you of the life waiting off it.

Awake theme picker, with negative and positive themes

Set the rules

Choose how long you get and on which days. Past your limit, a rule shows the reminder, and it can lock the app too if you want a hard stop.

The reminder appears

Past your limit, the theme creeps in over your chosen apps. Every tap still works. The phone just starts to feel different, and the trance starts to break.

Aurora overlay washing over a social feed

Watch your screen time drop

A streak rewards every day you stay under your limit, and the usage screen shows the hours coming back.

Streak and usage screen showing screen time well below the average

The result

Six hours a day of scrolling, traded for an afternoon that was actually yours.

See it

Some themes make your feed feel wrong. Some remind you what you’re missing.

Hellfire overlay burning across a social media feed — Hellfire creeps in from the edges the longer you scroll.

Cracked glass shattering across a social media feed — Your display shatters. Hours. Gone. Forever.

Crawling bugs creeping over a social media feed — Creepy crawlies inch across the feed.

A disappointed cat overlaid on a social media feed — A cat, thoroughly disappointed in you.

Warm golden sunlight over a social media feed — Golden light between scrolls. The world misses you.

Aurora borealis washing over a social media feed — Aurora between scrolls. Somewhere, music is playing.

Blockers alone treat the symptom. Awake treats the cause.

You’ve done this before: install a blocker, disable it three days later, feel worse for it. It fails because breaking your own rule costs you nothing.

App Blockers	Awake
Block apps, so you disable the blocker	Breaks the trance, so you see the truth
Hides the problem behind a wall	Makes the problem impossible to ignore
You fight the app	The app reveals what you’re fighting

And when you do want a hard stop, Awake blocks too. Set a rule to lock an app once you hit your limit.

Child Lock

Handing your phone to a child? Set a timer and choose which apps they can open. Social apps stay off-limits, and when the time runs out, the phone locks. Nothing your child does is sent to us. Child Lock is a Premium feature.

Privacy First

No account, and no access to your contacts, photos, camera, microphone or location
Your list of apps and websites stays on your phone
For websites on your list, Awake checks the address in your browser, on your phone. It’s never saved and never sent to us
Anonymous analytics & crash reports (Firebase) to fix bugs, including daily screen-time totals, but never which apps or sites
Child Lock’s recovery email is optional, used only for PIN reset codes and PIN-change alerts, and deleted within 24 hours
No ads, and no data sold

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