# buriko — A session you walk away from

> A session you walk away from (iPhone/iPad app by Davide Ghiotto.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/buriko/id6807760213 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Davide Ghiotto](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807760215)
- Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is buriko?

buriko pairs your phone with one small object you print yourself: a brick.

Tap the brick and pick a length. The apps you chose go behind a shield. Then you leave the brick where it is — on a shelf, in another room, at home — and take your phone with you. The only early way out is walking back to it, and only once the minimum you agreed to has passed. Before that, the app tells you how long is left and nothing else.

There is no streak to protect, no score to raise, no plant that dies if you fail. Those make the phone matter more, and the whole value of this app is not caring about it.

How a session works

• Tap the brick. Your tag's UID is matched against the paired one; a foreign tag does nothing.
• Pick a length. Fifteen minutes is the floor — Apple's scheduler refuses anything shorter.
• The shield goes up, and the end is scheduled before the shield is trusted.
• Blocked apps show minutes remaining and the note you wrote about where you left the brick.
• It ends by itself, with the app closed, at the time you set.
• Or you go back and tap the brick again, once the minimum has passed.
• Or you use one of three emergency unlocks per rolling week, behind a ten-second hold. The valve has to exist. It just shouldn't be something a thumb does by reflex.

What it never does

• No account, no sign-in, no sync.
• No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising.
• No networking code of any kind — the source is public and that is checkable.
• The app never learns which apps you blocked. Apple hands it opaque tokens, and it stores them without ever decoding them.

No brick yet?

Face ID can stand in for one. Sessions start and end the same way, and the minimum duration and the emergency quota are identical — but the key is in your hand instead of across the room, and the app says so where you choose it. Pair a brick later and it takes over.

What you need

An NFC tag — an NTAG215 sticker or card costs about a euro — and, if you want the object, a printed shell. The models and print profiles are public domain, in the same repository as the app. Without either, Face ID gets you started.

One thing no app can fix

Deleting buriko removes every restriction it applied. If you want that door shut, turn on Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → App Deletion → Don't Allow.

## Is buriko safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess buriko.

## Is buriko legit?

buriko has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for buriko is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-10

No release notes.

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All apps by Davide Ghiotto: https://appshunter.io/developer/6807760215

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