Furlough

Furlough is an app blocker with no unblock button, and two ways to use it. Rules give an app the hours it is allowed and a daily budget, and loosen only after a delay you set in advance. The Anchor locks a list, or the whole phone, in one tap, and lifts only when you hold the phone to an NFC tag you paired. Use either on its own. THE ANCHOR One tap and everything on the list is gone. No timer to wait out, no code to type: the only thing that releases it is a physical NFC tag held to the phone. You supply the tag, and any NTAG sticker works. Up to three pair at once, so a key can live wherever you do. Switch its scope and the list turns inside out: every app and website is shielded and the list becomes what stays open. It can drop on a schedule — ten at night on school nights, lifted by the tag in the morning — and it carries to Furlough for Mac, which only your phone's tag will lift.…