Lockup

One code puts every phone in the room away.

Start a session, share a six-character code, and every phone that joins has its distracting apps blocked until the session ends. Use it for a class, a study group, a team meeting, a rehearsal, or dinner at home.

STARTING A SESSION

- Create a free account in the app or on the web

- Start a session and choose how long it runs, from 20 to 60 minutes

- Share the code, or let people scan it

- Up to 30 people can join

- Phones unlock when you end the session, or when the time runs out

- The person who started the session's phone is never blocked, so they always keep control of the room

JOINING A SESSION

- Tap Join, enter the code, and you are in

- No account needed to join a session

- Distracting apps stay blocked until the session ends

FOR SCHOOLS

Schools can run Lockup across the whole timetable instead of session by session:

- Students scan their school's code to check in for the day

- Distracting apps are blocked automatically during school hours

- Breaks and lunch unlock on their own schedule

- Teachers can grant a temporary unlock when a lesson needs phones

- Everything unlocks automatically when the school day ends

- Teachers and admins manage classes, breaks and unlocks from the Lockup dashboard

- Student accounts are created by the school, and Lockup runs on each student's own device

VPN USAGE

Lockup uses Android's VpnService to enforce app and website blocking while a session or a school day is active. While blocking is active, Lockup runs a local VPN that restricts the device's network access so distracting apps and websites cannot bypass the block. This is a core part of how Lockup keeps a room focused.

- The VPN only runs while blocking is active. It turns off automatically when a session ends, at the end of the school day, during scheduled breaks, and when a teacher grants a temporary unlock.

- The VPN is used solely to enforce on-device app and website blocking. Lockup does not use the VPN to monitor, collect, or sell browsing activity, and does not route traffic to third parties for advertising or analytics.

- Lockup does not function as a general-purpose or anonymizing VPN.

OTHER PERMISSIONS LOCKUP USES

- Notification access: to hide notifications from blocked apps while blocking is active, so people are not pulled back to their phones. Lockup acts only on which app sent a notification. It does not read, store or transmit notification content.

- Usage access: to detect when a blocked app is opened so that it can be blocked.

- Display over other apps: to show the blocking screen over a blocked app.

- Camera: to scan session join codes and school check-in codes. Nothing is recorded.

- Notifications: to say when a phone locks, unlocks, or a break begins.

PRIVACY

Lockup is used in schools, so it is built to collect as little as possible. Lockup shows no ads, uses no advertising identifiers, and does not sell personal data. Lockup does not track browsing history and does not record what anyone types or says.

Lockup records the device model and a device identifier so that an account can only be signed in on one phone at a time. This prevents a second device being used to get around blocking.

Privacy policy: https://lockup-app.com/privacy