Features
Accountability for Cutting Phone Time
Block Apps. Stay Accountable. Get Back To Tasks. BreakAway combines blocking, task redirection, friends, chats, and competitions so reducing screen time becomes a shared system, not a solo willpower test.
Core Loop
Block Apps.
Stay Accountable.
Get Back To Tasks.
BreakAway is more than a blocker. It turns the moment the app is blocked into a visible choice: your tasks come up, your daily limit matters, and friends can keep you accountable through chats and competitions.
The goal is simple: decrease time on the phone by making the better action easier to take and harder to ignore.
The Full Toolkit
Every feature supports the same outcome: less passive phone time, more useful action, and more accountability.
App Blocking
Block distracting apps on a schedule or through daily limits. Choose the apps that matter and connect the block to the tasks you want to do instead.
Task Overlay
When a blocked app opens, your task list appears on the overlay. Tap a task to mark it done, or use Reality Check AI when you truly need timed access.
AI Task Manager
Use AI to create tasks from natural instructions like "remind me to call mom tomorrow at 3pm" or "add gym every Monday." The AI extracts details and creates the task.
Friend Accountability
Add friends, manage requests, share progress, and keep your phone-time goals visible to people who can check in.
Chats With Friends
Use direct and group chats to motivate each other, talk through hard moments, and keep each other accountable.
Competitions
Join one-on-one or group competitions based on successful days. Compete on consistency and make discipline social.
Replacement Overlay
When you hit a block, BreakAway puts your tasks, reminders, and next best action in front of you instead of leaving you at a dead end.
Reality Check AI
Want to access a blocked app? Talk to the AI first. Explain why you need it. The AI helps you decide if it's truly necessary — and grants a timed unlock if it is.
Daily Usage Limits
Set a daily time budget for distracting apps. Stay under the limit to protect your streak and count the day as successful.
Scroll Guard™
Android-only doom-scroll detection for supported feeds. It redirects passive scrolling back to tasks while leaving useful actions like messaging available where detection supports it.
Android onlyWebsite Blocking
Add distracting websites to your blocks. Android can sync website rules through the accessibility-based blocking service.
Android onlyHome Screen Widget
See tasks at a glance from the home screen and keep the next useful action close.
Feature Inventory Details
Use this page as the product inventory. The homepage explains the promise; this page separates the surfaces users configure after install.
Rules and timing
Time Blocks, daily limits, strict settings, and website rules define when a distraction should close instead of opening normally.
Recovery surfaces
The overlay, task list, Reality Check AI, reminders, and unlock timer decide what the user sees after the block triggers.
Social surfaces
Friend requests, chats, threshold updates, competitions, streak visibility, and group progress make accountability optional but concrete.
Platform surfaces
Scroll Guard, accessibility-based blocking, widgets, locales, and store-managed access explain where behavior differs by operating system.
Start With One Block
Download BreakAway on Google Play and set up your first focus block.
Download BreakAway on the App Store and set up your first focus block.