Brick - Ditch Distractions

I just started using Brick this past week. I work from home and am easily prone to distraction. Using the Brick to turn off social media platforms during the day has allowed me to regain control of my productivity. Plus I love that you can label different app groupings for different occasions- work, weekends, bedtime… there is limitless application

You used to be able to add a shortcut that would see if brick is enabled and that worked great! I would use it to shift focus modes on my phone to change the background but they got rid of that. Plus the safari issue of them blocking every website imaginable including Google unless you say you want access. Would’ve been less willing to make an account had I realized the app would be slower, would crash more, and work less. Such a shame literally needed no update from the version just a few months ago

Love the idea. Having to go downstairs to my fridge to lock up certain apps is all the motivation I need to not use the apps. However, the app needs a couple of very minor features to properly implement the idea. 1) Why do I need to go to the Brick to lock up various apps? Walking downstairs to the Brick to lock the apps makes me less motivated to use it. Perhaps this is not an option to prevent you locking certain apps without the brick accessible to unlock it. If I really needed to unlock things, I could probably just delete the Brick app. 2) There needs to be a timer feature. Like I’m fine with 15-30 mins of social media but I want it to lock up the apps after that to prevent me doom scrolling for hours.

I’ve only had brick a few days and maybe I’ll write an listed review when more time passes but - it’s already changing my life. I bought brick to curb my social media addiction. I saw I was spending approx 5hrs a day on social media just doom scrolling. There was a time that I used my life to create things and learn things. Use my brain differently - and lately social media has filled that space. The last two days after having Brick, my social media average is now 10minutes a day. It’s amazing how refreshed my brain feels breaking this addiction as I force myself to occupy my time creating things and living life. Thank you brick. The physical barrier to entry was the product innovation that made all the difference. Genius.

I love the idea of this app, but the app is unusable. Any time I try to add apps to my allow or block list (I’ve tried both methods) the app crashes. I’ve tried searching for apps, per the app’s instructions, and it still crashes. I’ve owned this brick for nearly a year now and have really not been able to use it as I can’t set up the app to achieve its stated purchase. My advice is not to buy until they fix it.

This is just what I needed. Not to be dramatic but I felt like I was losing my life to my phone. I’m seriously so grateful for this. It’s a perfect hindrance to stop me from scrolling mindlessly. I started dreaming again which is weirdddddd I thought I just lost dreams as I got older or something. Anyways, get this! Also hopefully you can make this work for android too someday because my roommate would love it :)

I was enjoying my Brick and appreciated the Shortcut automations suggested by Brick to block Settings and Safari. But with most recent iOS update, these shortcuts no longer work. I had reached out to customer support and none of their suggestions fixed the issue. If I can easily disable Brick mode in Settings it defeats the purpose of the device, at least for my needs.

With the new update which asks for you to sign in with an email, they silently and sneakily take away several emergency unbricks (which allow you to unbrick your phone in an emergency when you’re away from your physical Brick) hoping that you don’t notice. Each user used to start with 5 emergency unbricks, but now you only get one after signing in. I was happy with Brick up until they devalued their product.

The new update fixes nothing. Still having the exact same issues as before the update. I don’t have safari blocked, but because YOUR APP limits to 50 I have to have safari links blocked. So the app STILL doesn’t work properly and you decide to take away emergency unbricks? I had 4, now I have 2. Kindly, what the actual f do you guys do in that office? Your product literally doesn’t work

Using Brick to limit distractions and keep me off social media. It is AMAZING and super user friendly. GET THIS APP