Brick - Ditch Distractions ٤+

Reclaim your time

This app/device has been tremendous in helping me reclaim my time from social media and other time-sucking apps. I keep my Brick device on my fridge and I don’t ‘unbrick’ until I’ve spent two hours tech free in the morning. I also make sure to keep my phone in brick mode while working from home. Sometimes, I even keep brick mode enabled while I’m out so I can remember to be fully present. It’s helped make me more intentional about when I’m using my phone. My only gripe, is that there is no ability to preschedule brick mode - that would be very useful. I notice that when I forget to enable it myself before bed, sometimes I start scrolling on auto pilot in the morning whereas, if the app were to automatically go into brick mode on a schedule that coincided with my ‘do not disturb’ schedule I’d be much more equipped to mindfully complete my routines. Could this feature be added? Thank you so much for your brilliant offering. Not only do I have a brick for myself, but I’ve even gifted one to a friend. Brick to the world✌🏽

Very Satisfied Customer. IT WORKS

I am doing the rounds today reviewing this device/app everywhere I can find. I bought two Bricks a few weeks ago... and my relationship with my phone has COMPLETELY CHANGED. I know I shouldn't need this. I know there are settings and other software tools available as part of the OS's and thru third party. I know it's downright silly. But dammit IT WORKS. I have two Bricks. One is in the back passenger door pocket of my car and the other is in my work backpack where it immediately falls to the very bottom,... requiring a good amount of digging and then refilling to obtain. Countless times, every day, I pick up my phone out of complete and even unaware compulsion, only to put it back down because there's nothing "attention grabbing" accessible. It's actually become less and less... as the habit of grabbing it fades over time. I could go on and on... but if you think you might need or want this... you will not be disappointed. Also, there are specific instructions to block Safari... as it's definitely one of my wasters(since the apps are accessible via the web). Feel free to ask any questions,. I DO NOT work for Brick nor have I been given and compensation... I paid full price for my Bricks. I just wanted to provide an honest opinion form a very satisfied customer.

Please please please fix your app

This is a phenomenal concept, and when it works, it’s excellent. However - your app is borderline unusable for the newest iOS update. The app is consistently getting confused when toggling from Allowed apps to Blocked apps, (I believe this is new functionality, my brother has an earlier version and it only allowed him to block). Many times my app will revert to an earlier “version” of my block/allow settings, or the exact opposite of what I asked for. For example - many times my “No Insta For You” setting will allow me ONLY access to Instagram, rather than the opposite. The only thing that has worked thus far is deleting the setting, creating a new one (has to be a different name, if it’s the same name it will revert back to previous settings) and getting blocking/allowing everything on the first go around. If you try and adjust anything, consider yourself hosed.

For anyone who’s making a jira ticket about this: THIS IS HIGH PRIORITY. I really, really want this app to work, because when it does I truly love it. I pinky promise I will change this to 5 stars when you fix this issue, but you clearly have a memory/pointer/full-on-class-construction issue that needs to be fixed before I can recommend this to anyone.

استجابة المطور ،

Thanks for bringing this to our attention in such detail. It does seem as though something in the latest iOS update may have affected our app negatively, so we're looking into this to figure out as soon as we can. Could you please reach out to tj@getbrick.app so we can address this together to make sure we're aware of all the necessary fixes?