App & site blocker · Android

OwnHour.
Your attention. Your time.

OwnHour blocks the apps and sites that pull you away, holds your limits when willpower dips, and hands the hour back to you. Calm by design — no streaks, no shaming, no guesswork.

Free trial for new customers · free tier stays free

The OwnHour Today screen: a green protection dial reading “This hour is yours”, 2h 41m of screen time against 1h 40m reclaimed, and the day’s Deep work and Wind-down schedules.
Enforcement runs on your device
No browsing history logged
DNS-only VPN, no traffic routed
Partners never pay
How it works

Three ways to hold the line you drew.

Set it once on a clear-headed morning. It keeps working at 11pm, when the pull is strongest.

Block what pulls

Apps, sites, whole domains, single keywords and adult content. YouTube Safe Search stays on, whether or not anyone is watching.

Apps Domains Keywords

Limits and schedules

Give an app twenty minutes a day. Close the feeds after ten. Keep mornings clear until you’ve had coffee.

Daily limits Schedules

Focus sessions

Gentle when you want a nudge you can step past. Strict when you mean it — the session ends when the clock says so.

Gentle Strict
When a rule catches you

No shame. Just the reason, and a way forward.

Every blocked moment tells you three things: what happened, whose rule it was, and what you can do next. It’s your rule doing the work — so the screen speaks plainly instead of scolding.

01
What happened
“Instagram is paused” — never “Blocked!”
02
Whose rule
The rule you wrote, named, and can see
03
What you can do
Back to work, or ask for five minutes
The OwnHour blocked screen: “Instagram is paused”, with the line “Your rule ‘Fewer feeds’ keeps it quiet”, and buttons to go back to what matters or request five minutes.
Accountability

Choose how hard it is to undo your own rule.

Turning protection off is the moment that matters. Pick the guard that fits how much help you want — from a typed phrase to a person who has to say yes.

Level 1

Self challenge

Type a strict phrase, word for word, before anything changes. Enough friction to break autopilot.

Level 2

Time delay

The change waits. If you still want it when the delay ends, it’s yours — most urges don’t last that long.

Level 3

Friend or partner

Someone you trust approves protected changes. They see the request — not your browsing.

Level 4

Parent

Family mode keeps the rules with the parent, on the child’s device, with clear limits and no surveillance.

A 15-minute safety override is always available, on every guard, so nothing can lock you out of a phone you may need.

Privacy

This stays on your phone.

A blocker sees the most private thing you own. So OwnHour is built to know as little as possible — and to keep none of it.

Every decision is made on device
Nothing is sent away to be judged.
No query logging, ever
We don’t keep a record of what you looked up.
The VPN carries DNS only
Your traffic is never routed through us.
Your partner sees requests, not habits
Only the changes you asked them to guard.
Pricing

One price. Every guard.

Start free. Pro adds every guard, every limit and the people who help you keep them — with a free trial first.

Free
$0

For a first, honest look at where the hours go.

  • Block apps, sites and keywords
  • Adult-content filtering and YouTube Safe Search
  • One schedule · Gentle focus sessions
  • Self challenge guard
  • Seven days of local insights
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Pro
14-day trial
$39.99 / year

Works out to $3.33 a month — two months free.

  • Unlimited schedules and limits
  • Extra filter categories — gambling, social feeds
  • Time delay and partner approval
  • Family mode, Guardian protection and Strict sessions
  • Full history of hours reclaimed
Start the 14-day trial
Lifetime
$99.99once

Pay once, keep Pro. For people done with subscriptions.

  • Everything in Pro, permanently
  • All future features on this device
  • No renewal to forget
Buy lifetime

Partners never pay. Inviting someone to hold a rule with you is free for them, always.

Free trials are for new customers only. Google Play shows your exact price, trial length and renewal terms before you confirm. Prices shown in USD; local Play pricing applies.

Questions people ask first.

Which phones does it run on?

Android only today, built natively so blocking holds up under pressure. There’s no iOS release yet and no date to promise.

Can’t I just turn it off?

That’s the point of guards: you decide in advance how hard it should be. With a time delay or partner approval, the version of you at 11pm can’t quietly undo the version of you that set the rule.

What does my accountability partner see?

Only the requests you route to them — “unblock Instagram”, “end the session early” — and whether they approved. No browsing history, no app list, no location.

How do I know protection is actually working?

Protection health reads the real state of every permission it needs. If Android stops the accessibility service or a permission is revoked, you see it plainly, with a two-minute fix — never a green tick that lies.

Do you sell any of my data?

No. There’s no ad business here and no data to sell — the app is paid for by the people who use it, which is why Pro exists.

Take the next hour back.

Set one rule tonight. See what the morning feels like.