AuraLock Features: Focus App Explained

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 at a glance — your Focus Level sets the ceiling
• 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. Emergency exit available. Flexible focus for everyday use
• Strict — No exit until the session ends. Committed to the exact end time you set
• Emergency access — Essential system functions and calls always remain available

Emergency Exit (Standard only)

A Strict Aura has no break-glass override. The only early exit is the Emergency Unlock in a Standard session — behind a short math challenge and a cooldown you set yourself.

• Math challenge first — Two, three, or four problems depending on your difficulty setting
• Cooldown — A wait you choose, from 10 seconds to 5 minutes (30 seconds by default)
• Strict has neither — A Strict session renders no emergency option at all — it holds until its end time

Modes for Contexts

One tap to start the right kind of focus. Pre-built templates cover the moments you actually live.

• Preset modes — Work, Study, Deep Work, Social — each pre-configured with apps and duration
• One-tap start — Skip setup entirely for everyday situations
• Fully editable — Adjust any preset once and it stays yours

Intentions

Before you open an app, answer one question: why? Intentions give every visit a purpose.

• Per-app purpose — Connect, create, browse, or something specific — one tap, remembered locally
• Time budgets — Set a length for the visit and an optional daily limit that resets at midnight
• Honest reflection — On return, did you get what you came for? Insights keep that answer visible

AuraWake

The first moments after waking should belong to you. AuraWake is an alarm that asks for a small challenge before it lets you go.

• Challenge dismissal — Math, typed calm phrases, combined, steps, a destination, or a recorded object
• Weekday repeats — Set one-time or repeating alarms with sounds and vibration
• Physical XP — Steps, location, and object challenges award bonus Focus XP

Aura Moments

Not every moment needs a full session. A smaller, intentional pause can change the rest of the day.

• Six intents — Calm, focus, clarity, morning, sleep, reset
• Guided breathing — Box, extended exhale, relaxing breath, slow, and equal breathing
• Posture check-ins — A simple prompt to sit, breathe, and come back

Personal Goals / OKRs

Connect today's sessions to the direction you want your life to move.

• One active cycle — An objective, a few key results, and a confidence read
• Weighted key results — Current vs target, with units and importance weights
• Templates — One-tap sprints like Deep Work Week, Ship It, and Wellbeing

Aura Assistant

A conversational interface that works entirely on your device — no cloud, no AI service.

• Session control — Create, start, pause, resume, extend, or end Auras by asking
• AuraWake & schedules — Create, rename, enable, and cancel wake alarms and scheduled Auras
• Guidance — Ask what things do — Guardian, permissions, intentions — and get a plain answer

Aura Insights Report

Know your focus rhythm — weekly, on-device, and private.

• Weekly summary — Protected hours, top distractions, and your best time of day
• Shareable report — Export a clean weekly card to share or keep
• Trends over time — See your focus improving week over week

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
• 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 — unlimited schedules
• 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

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