Digital Detox: Focus & Live

4.7
32.4K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Disconnect from your phone in order to reconnect with yourself, others, and the world. Start your challenge today!

Are you always on your phone? Do you live with a constant fear of missing out? Do you panic when you have no signal? It’s time for a detox. You can do this. We’re here to help.

Features:
⚫ Limited access to your phone during the challenge
⚫ Multiple difficulty levels with built-in accountability
⚫ Scheduling and whitelisting capabilities
⚫ Achievements and leader board at Play Games

Warning: XioaMi phones requires a special permission in order to open whitelisted apps. Please follow our guide here: https://team.urbandroid.org/ddc-fix-whitelisted-apps-on-xiaomi/

Automation

To start detox automatically from Tasker or similar:
- broadcast
- package: com.urbandroid.ddc
- action: com.urbandroid.ddc.START_DETOX
- time_extra: number of millies

Example:
adb shell am broadcast --el time_extra 60000 -a com.urbandroid.ddc.START_DETOX

Accessibility Service

In order to effectively block you from using the addictive and distracting apps the "Digital Detox" app may ask you to enable its Accessibility Service if you decide to use the cheating protection features. We use this service only to block you from leaving an ongoing Detox without paying an accountability fee or using a quit code (the cheating). We do not use the service to collect any personal information.

See how the use of Accessibility Service works in Digital Detox:
https://youtu.be/XuJeqvyEAYw

Device Admin

If granted by the user, "Digital Detox" app may use the Device Administrator permission to (and only to) prevent users from cheating - make uninstalling of the app during an active Detox harder.
Updated on
Mar 18, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
App activity and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
31.1K reviews
Tess Shiell
February 8, 2025
Editing from 3 stars to 2, since this app seems to be getting worse. At least before I could use the apps in the allowed apps list and see my notifications. Now it regularly shuts down apps that are ALLOWED during a detox, and kicks me out of emergency use if I try to check my notifications? I'm so disappointed. I really like the concept of this app, but it's effectively useless. So I will be looking for something else. Again. Only got the second star because I like the concept and the UI.
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Petr Nálevka (Urbandroid)
February 9, 2025
Hello, if the allowed app tries to use some system app, that was not added to the list of allowed apps, the protective screen will get triggered. On some phones, the search box for example requires "Google" app added to the list. Ideally, please use the Left ≡ menu → (?) Support → Report a bug, so we check, which package needs to be whitelisted.
Allena Hill
March 21, 2025
This is my favorite tech limiting app and I've tried a lot of them! It's got every feature I need, a super simple interface, and the devs always reply to emails if there's any issues. I don't just use this for a full detox, but it's also my app for scheduling focus times. You can set several different options like "work" and "family time" (you can edit the labels), and then use these for separate automatic schedules that block what you don't need for that time of the day. Perfect app, thank you!
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Harry Lubbe
March 5, 2025
Good app, but could use some quality of life when managing lower level phone functions, while on a detox my phone will kick me out while accessing basic things such as copy+paste controls. When selecting apps whitelisted for detox it's difficult to discern which is which. Since some providers will name a sub task or device feature something like 'app.service' which doesn't give any real context when selecting it as whitelisted during detox. Still, great app, great monetizing strategy.
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Petr Nálevka (Urbandroid)
March 5, 2025
Hello, we have to implement a block for Samsung's proprietary pop-up widows which was a loophole on Samsung, a side effect of this is that copy and paste dialiog may also be recognized as a pop-up window in some situations. If you do not mind some loopholes you can fix this issue by disabling the Accessibility service for the app.

What’s new

-Edge-to-edge and Android 15 target
- Fix for first streak and first longest streak
- Resizeable widget with stats and my detox start button
- Minimal mode: Monochrome icons and black background
- Quickly access recent app
- Material date and time pickers