Loc Out vs ScreenLocation

Log out at the door. Loc Out blocks distracting apps and websites automatically based on your location. Pick a place. Pick what to block. That's it. When you get home, blocking turns on. When you leave, everything unlocks again. You don't have to remember to start a timer, flip a switch, or talk yourself into focusing. The place does it for you. YOU DECIDE WHERE THINGS BELONG Most blockers ask you to give something up everywhere. Loc Out only asks you to decide where it belongs. Maybe an app is no trouble on your commute but you'd rather not reach for it on the sofa. Maybe work email is welcome at your desk and can wait until tomorrow once you're home. You draw the line once, and it holds itself. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a place — your home, office, school, library, or a cafe you get work done in. Use your current location or search an address, then adjust the radius to fit. 2. Choose what gets blocked there using Apple's own Screen Time selector: individual apps, specific websites, or whole categories like Social or Games. 3. Go about your day. Loc Out handles the rest in the background. WHY PLACE INSTEAD OF TIME Schedules assume your day goes to plan. Places don't. If you sit down to work at 9 or at 3, if you stay an hour or five, the rule is the same: you're here, so the distractions are gone. And the moment you step out, they're back — no waiting for a timer to expire. IF IT REALLY CAN'T WAIT, GO FOR A WALK Loc Out isn't a lockbox. While blocking is active you can always add more to your block list, but you can't remove anything or delete the place you're standing in. To loosen the rules, you step outside first. That's the whole design. Nothing is off limits — it just costs you a walk around the block. Often that's enough time to notice it could have waited. And when it truly couldn't, you get to it anyway, with some fresh air thrown in. The door logs you out on the way in. It logs you back in on the way out. There's also an optional setting that prevents app deletion while blocking is running, so uninstalling doesn't become the shortcut around the walk. Apple only allows this device-wide, so while it's on it covers every app, not just this one. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Loc Out has no account, no sign-up, and no server. Your places and your block list are stored on your device and nowhere else. Your location is used on-device for one thing only: deciding whether you're inside a place you saved. Screen Time access is used for one thing only: applying the blocks you chose. Nothing is collected. Nothing is transmitted. Nothing is sold. FEATURES - Block apps, websites, and categories at up to 20 saved places - Automatic on arrival, automatic off when you leave - Current-location or address search when adding a place - Adjustable radius per place - Status screen shows whether blocking is on and how far you are from your nearest place - Locked block list and locked place editing while blocking is active - Optional app deletion protection - No account, no subscription required to set up - No location or Screen Time usage data collected Loc Out uses Apple's Screen Time and Location permissions solely to run the rules you create. Location must be set to "Always" so blocking can start and stop while the app is closed.

Block the apps you lose time to, at the places you lose it. ScreenLocation notices the places you go, names them using Apple's own map data, and lets you shut distracting apps off while you are there. Block social media at your desk. Block games at the gym. They come back on their own the moment you leave. You never tag a location, name a place, or confirm anything. SET A LIMIT - Pick a place, pick the apps, done - Those apps are blocked while you are there and released when you leave - Turn a limit off for an afternoon without deleting it - Limits follow the place, not a schedule you have to maintain SEE WHERE IT GOES - Screen time attributed to each place you visit - Ranked, so you can see which places actually cost you - Every day charted by place, over any date range - Every place gets a street address, whether or not a business was identified HOW THE NAMING WORKS Home and Work are worked out purely from your own pattern - where your phone spends its nights, and where it spends weekday working hours. Anywhere else, the app asks Apple's map data what business sits at that spot. If nothing is listed, it uses the street name. It will not guess. If two shops sit side by side and a visit cannot tell them apart, it shows the address and offers you the choice. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no analytics, no ads, no third parties. The only network use is a single map lookup when a brand-new place is first detected, so that it can be given a name. FREE TRIAL, THEN ONE PAYMENT Everything is unlocked for 7 days. After that, tracking and the limits you have already set keep working. Adding new limits and the Trends tab need a one-time $1.99 purchase - kept for good, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. No subscription. WHAT IT NEEDS - "Always" location access, so places can be detected while the app is closed. It uses Apple's low-power visit monitoring, not continuous GPS tracking. - Screen Time access, Apple's own permission for setting app limits and reading usage. A NOTE ON ACCURACY iOS does not give third-party apps a live running total of usage, so per-place minutes are estimated from usage thresholds and will not add up exactly to the figure in Settings. Time spent travelling between places is deliberately left out rather than assigned to whichever place happened to be nearest. Apple's own exact daily total is shown inside the app so you can always compare.