◆◇ Embrace Balance in Daily Life ◇◆ Discover Blockin, the healthcare app dedi…
Blockin, Inc.Some warnings 4 things we found but could not confirm. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 38 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 24 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 4.1.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 4.1.2, updated 2026-09-01.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
◆◇ Embrace Balance in Daily Life ◇◆
Discover Blockin, the healthcare app dedicated to fostering balance and focus by smartly managing your smartphone usage.
● App Features
◇ Three Customizable Block Types ◇
Tailor your app usage with three distinct Block types, each designed to fit seamlessly into your lifestyle:
• Limit Block
Set a cap on your daily app usage. Once you reach your designated limit, Blockin automatically steps in to help you disconnect.
Example: A '2-hour' limit means Blockin will block access to your apps after two hours of use, encouraging healthier habits.
• Time Block
Create periods of uninterrupted focus by scheduling 'Block Times' tailored to your daily routine.
Example: Reserve '9 PM to Midnight' for tranquility.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 4 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app requests QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, which lets the app enumerate every other app installed on the device.
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370Ships a purchase screen ("Paywall") with no dismiss, skip or "continue free" text anywhere in the package
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370The app's own text says: "Premium access required"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370Offers a free trial ("Start Free Week") with no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370The app's own text says: "Once deleted, it can’t be recovered."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370The app's own text says: "Skip"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370The app's own text says: "Save app usage stats"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:57ff7b8832470c58ba5abb41b26ca3fc2bf60f273f4762cd81d30fe79ee89370Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 4.1.1, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 4.1.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 4.1.2, updated 2026-09-01.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
screen-time-for-focus-blockinAssessed 2026-10-24 from 38 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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