Select the apps that fill a commute with scrolling, start a session or set a routine for your travel time, and only those apps lock. Navigation, transit, and music apps can stay untouched.
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A commute is dead time by design, which makes it exactly the kind of stretch a feed is built to fill, whether that's useful or not. This isn't about blocking the apps you actually need to get somewhere. It's about the ones that fill the gap once you're already on the train, in traffic, or waiting for a connection, and don't add anything to the trip itself.
Selection in Fella is per app. Leave maps, transit apps, music, and podcasts unselected, and choose the apps that actually fill the time with something you didn't mean to spend it on.
Match the routine to your real schedule. A fixed nine-to-five commute and a rotating shift schedule both work the same way, set the hours and days to whatever your actual travel time looks like.
If you're driving, checking a phone at a stoplight or in slow traffic is common and genuinely risky, not just distracting. If you're on transit, a commute is often the one predictable stretch of unstructured time in a day, which makes it a strong candidate for either something intentional, reading, planning, or the default of just opening whatever app is easiest.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, for the rare case something genuinely needs attention during the trip. When the five minutes end, the selected apps lock again automatically for the rest of the commute.
If your commute is when you catch up on reading, see our app blocker for reading page for turning that stretch into something intentional. For blocking the same apps during work hours too, not just travel time, see block apps during work.
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Only if you select them. Selection in Fella is per app, so navigation, transit apps, music, and podcasts can stay unselected while the apps that turn a commute into a scroll session lock.
Yes. A routine can be set to the specific hours and days you commute, so it matches an irregular or shift-based schedule as well as a standard nine-to-five one.
The apps you select still lock the same way regardless of how you commute. If you drive, this is about the moments you're stopped, at a light, in traffic, waiting to park, where checking a phone is both a distraction and a safety risk, not about phone use while actively driving.
Yes, with a routine. Set it to the weekdays and hours you commute, and it starts the block itself each of those days without needing to be turned on.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs attention, and the selected apps lock again automatically once the five minutes end.
