Brickify your smart device.

Brickify turns a smartphone into a brick phone on a schedule you set. Block apps by time of day: a brickphone for the school day, maps for the walk home, more open at weekends. Simple parental control without monitoring, for a child's first phone or your own digital detox. No need to buy a dumbphone. WHY I BUILT IT My sons' school went smartphone-free. Brilliant in principle, but I'd already promised them a phone for the walk to school and a few agreed apps at weekends. There was an old phone in a drawer, too good to throw away and too distracting to hand over as it was. Brickify turned it into a brickphone: calls, texts and whatever else we agreed, then a more open profile on a schedule we're all happy with. The school's happy. They're happy. I didn't have to buy anything new. SET IT ONCE. THEN STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. The best thing Brickify does that your phone's built-in Screen Time won't: it runs on its own schedule, moving between the profiles you've set up. Set the days, hours and apps once (ideally when your resolve is strongest, not at 11pm when you're too tired to enforce anything) and Brickify takes it from there. No daily nagging, no switching it by hand, no relying on willpower you won't have tomorrow. REAL RESTRICTIONS, NOT A SUGGESTION Brickify uses Apple's Family Controls (the system behind Screen Time) to actually enforce whichever profile is active. It isn't an honesty-system timer. Moving to a more open profile ahead of schedule needs your PIN, plus an optional second factor (an authenticator app or an email code), so a determined kid, or a determined 11pm version of you, can't override it alone. REUSE WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY GOT A dedicated dumbphone costs around £10–£15 and does one job. Brickify costs a one-off $4.99 / £4.99 and turns a smartphone you already own into the same thing, with the bonus of moving to a more open profile on your schedule. As they grow up, you can release more apps, one at a time. WHAT'S INSIDE • Profiles — name a set of blocked apps once, reuse it whenever • Automatic scheduling — build profiles at different restriction levels and schedule them in • PIN + optional second factor — nobody can override the schedule alone • Recovery codes — for when you genuinely lock yourself out • Block the App Store in a profile — so nothing new gets installed without you • Emergency calling always works, whatever profile is active • One-time $4.99 / £4.99 — no subscription, no renewal, ever Brickify isn't a monitoring app. It doesn't read messages, browsing history or location. It does one thing: blocks apps between the profiles you define, on a schedule you control. Built by Anne Mundy.