Find Focus. Fast.
FreeInFive uses gentle friction to help you put the phone down. To bypass a block, you do 10 push-ups or write 50 words. It makes the scroll cost something — and you’ll be surprised how quickly you choose your time instead.
15-day free trial. No card. Android and iOS.
96
unlocks a day.
Once every ten waking minutes. You pick up the phone before you've finished the thought.
Asurion, 2023
4 hrs 37 min
on your phone.
Per adult, per day, globally. A part-time job no one signed up for.
DataReportal / Statista, 2025
23 minutes
to refocus.
Every time a notification breaks your flow. The thought you were having doesn't come back.
UC Irvine, 2024
12,007
hours a year.
The average time spent staring at a phone screen.
44%
say it harms them.
Feel social media negatively impacts their physical and mental health.
The problem isn’t your discipline. It’s that opening Instagram costs nothing.
The idea
How it works
When you hit your soft limit on a watched app, the screen pauses. A breathing circle expands and contracts five times. Then you choose: keep scrolling, or close it. Most days, you close it.
At your hard limit, the app locks completely. To earn 5 more minutes, you do 10 push-ups — the camera counts them — or write 50 words about why you want to open the app. By week two, most people don't bother.
Set windows where watched apps lock automatically. 10pm to 7am for sleep. 9am to noon for deep work. The dinner hour. Set it once, it runs daily — no remembering to turn it on.
For the moments you need to focus right now and the schedule isn't going to save you. Pick a duration. The apps stay locked until it ends.
Week 1 is annoying. The soft block fires constantly. The hard block catches you twice a day. You consider deleting the app.
Week 2, the soft block fires half as often. You start noticing your phone before you grab it.
Week 3, the hard block barely fires. The push-ups, when they happen, become the part you laugh about. You stop thinking about the app at all.
By week four
2 to 4 hours a day, back.
The average user reclaims a part-time job’s worth of time — spent on reading, sleep, the gym, the people who live with them.
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$74.99once
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FAQ
Based on user data, yes — by week three the average user is hitting the hard block less than once a day. The soft block does most of the work.
Pick the 50-words option instead. Or set the rep count to something you can do — 3 push-ups, 5, 8. The point is friction, not fitness. The friction works the same.
It's live. FreeInFive is available on the App Store for iOS and on Google Play for Android.
You can. But the point of the friction isn’t to make it impossible — it’s to make the moment of choice visible. Most people don’t uninstall, because the alternative is sitting with the fact that they did it on purpose.
Yes. Screen-time tracking happens on your device. We don’t sell data because we don’t collect it.
