Features

Explore everything AuraLock offers for intentional phone use and focused living.

AuraLock is a whitelist-first focus app for Android. Instead of blocking apps you find distracting, you choose which apps stay alive, and everything else waits outside your Aura.

Aura Creation

You can create Auras for every area of your life. Every Aura starts with a purpose, then you shape the environment around it.

• Purpose presets — Deep Work, Study, Health & Fitness, Family Time, Personal Time
• Custom Auras — Name and describe any moment you want to protect
• Saved Auras — Reuse your favorite environments in one tap

What Stays Alive

The defining AuraLock feature. You select exactly which apps remain accessible during a session, with no categories and no guesses.

• Search & select — Browse your installed apps and toggle membership
• Live count — Always know how many apps stay alive (3 max on the free plan, unlimited with Pro)
• One-tap presets — Quick Focus (15 min), Deep Work (45 min), Power Hour (60 min, strict)

Standard and Strict Boundaries

Two boundary strengths for different situations:

• Standard — Pause, extend, or end your Aura. Flexible focus for everyday use
• Strict — The boundary holds until the Aura ends. A deliberate commitment for deep work
• Emergency access — Essential system functions and calls always remain available

Focus Timer

A calm timer keeps you aware of your remaining focus time without cluttering the screen.

• Progress ring — A soft Aura ring visualizes elapsed time
• Named durations — Sprint (10 min), Pomodoro (25), Deep Work (45), Flow (1h), Block (2h), and extended durations up to months
• Free cap — Free sessions run up to 60 minutes; longer durations unlock with Pro
• Session controls — Pause, extend time, change allowed apps mid-session

Aura Scheduling

Turn focus into a rhythm. AuraLock can begin your Aura automatically at the times you choose.

• Recurring schedules — Weekdays, weekends, or custom day selection (2 max on the free plan, unlimited with Pro)
• Schedule templates — Weekdays 9–5, Deep Work Mornings, Evening Wind-Down, Weekend Deep Work
• Ask before starting — Choose automatic start or confirmation
• Snooze & skip — Options when the moment is not right

Domain Block

Extend your boundary from apps to the web. While an Aura runs, opening a blocked domain in any browser shows the same calm boundary screen.

• Website blocking — Add domains to the block list
• Free tier — Up to 3 blocked domains
• Pro — Unlimited domains

Goals, Streaks & Journal

The motivation loop that turns sessions into a practice.

• Daily goal — Set how much protected time you want each day and track it live from the Home screen
• Focus score — A single 0–100 score combining active days, goal streaks, and consistency
• Streaks — See consecutive days of meeting your goal, plus an honest total-day streak
• Streak Freeze — Protect one missed day so a single off day never erases your momentum
• Achievements — Local badges for milestones like your first Aura, a 3-day streak, or a 30-day streak
• Journal — Write short entries with mood tags (Focused, Calm, Grateful, Energetic, Tired, Anxious, Proud) after sessions
• Reflection prompts — Starters like "What did you let go of today?" and "What will you protect tomorrow?"
• Daily reminder — Schedule a gentle nudge so journaling becomes a rhythm

Insights & History

An honest view of the time you protected.

• Protected time — Total minutes guarded across sessions, filterable by today, week, or month
• Focus activity heatmap — See your protected days at a glance
• Goal calendar — Which days you met your goal, with freeze dates honored
• Best focus hours — Learn when you are most present
• Weekly view — See your focus across the past week with change vs the week before
• Session timeline — Revisit past Auras and what stayed alive
• Most present apps — The apps that supported your focus most often
• Share today's focus — Share your protected minutes and streak as a simple card

Guardian & Permission Health

AuraLock's reliability system. It verifies your device is configured so your focus is never silently dropped.

• Guardian checks — Verifies permissions, battery optimization, and background behavior
• Permission health — Live status for every permission with one-tap fixes
• Self-heal alerts — If the boundary service disconnects mid-session, AuraLock tells you and offers a reconnect
• Restore after restart — If your phone reboots mid-Aura, AuraLock offers to restore the session

Appearance

• Dark mode — System-follow or manual, tuned for comfort
• Lock screen styles — Choose how your active Aura looks
• Tablet & foldable layouts — Two-column layouts on large screens, reflowing on foldables

Privacy by design

AuraLock is built around one principle: your focus data is yours.

• On-device only — Sessions, whitelists, schedules, and journal entries never leave your phone
• No account, no cloud — Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sync
• Transparent permissions — Every permission has a clear, single purpose

Pricing

AuraLock is free to use with the core experience included. The free plan caps duration at 60 minutes, keeps 3 apps alive, and allows 2 schedules and 3 blocked domains. AuraLock Pro is a one-time activation, with no subscription, that removes the limits:

• Unlimited Aura duration — From 1 minute to 24 hours
• Unlimited What Stays Alive — Keep as many apps alive as you need
• Unlimited schedules — Auto-start Auras on every rhythm you set
• Unlimited domain blocking — Block any site in every browser
• Presence analytics — Track Aura time, scores, and patterns