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categories: "- '[[Website pages]]'\n- '[[Apps, websites and tools]]'\n- '[[Projects]]'"
source: "https://github.com/brendan-ch/openapplock"
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title: OpenAppLock
status: - ongoing
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![Screenshots of OpenAppLock, including the home page with three active rules, and the new rule page with rule templates.](/assets/img/openapplock-1.png)
OpenAppLock is an open source iOS app for blocking apps. Block apps on a schedule, add time or open limits, and lock rules to prevent edits. I built it to help me spend more time outside staring at grass, like the picture below.
Some of the design principles of OpenAppLock:
- Completely offline, no account needed, nothing is tracked
- The app is meant to sit in the *background* of your phone
- You're meant to *not* use it, along with using your phone less
- Set the rules once, and let the app work
- Future considerations
- Integrate nature as part of the app design?
I worked with the different Apple screen time APIs to build the features in a privacy-preserving way.
Try it out and send me [feedback](mailto:openapplock@bchen.dev)!
- [Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openapplock/id6780259647)
- [Join the TestFlight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/5ymbrmns)
- [Website](https://openapplock.bchen.dev/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/brendan-ch/openapplock)
![A picture of some grass.](/assets/img/openapplock-2.png)