A Fella routine locks the apps you choose for the hours you do homework, automatically, every school night. Nothing to turn on after dinner, nothing to remember once you're already at your desk.
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Homework has a predictable shape most weeknights: same rough hours, same desk, same phone within reach. That predictability is exactly what a routine is built for. Fella does not have a feature named for homework. It has routines, a schedule you set once that starts a real blocking session on its own, applied here to the evening hours homework happens.
Build a routine for the hours you usually sit down to homework, weeknights only if that's when it happens. Pick the apps that turn a twenty-minute assignment into an hour—social feeds, games, group chats—and the routine starts the block itself once the time comes.
For a one-off night that doesn't match the usual schedule, a manual session works the same way: start it, set how long it runs, and it ends automatically.
Homework happens somewhere different from class. There's no teacher in the room, no bell marking the end of a period, and often more time alone with the phone than a school day allows. A routine fills exactly that gap, covering the hours after school where nothing else is enforcing focus.
If the same distraction shows up during the school day too, see blocking apps at school or blocking apps during a single class for the daytime version of the same idea.
Leave Phone and Messages off the blocked list so you can still be reached the normal way during homework time. For anything inside a blocked app that genuinely can't wait, each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, then the apps lock again automatically.
If studying happens in more places than just home in the evening—a library session, a free period, an exam-week stretch—our broader block apps while studying page and the research behind it on app blocker for students cover the fuller picture.
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Yes. A routine can be set to the hours you usually do homework, so the block starts on its own each school night without needing to be turned on.
No. A homework block uses the same session and routine mechanism as any other Fella block, just applied to the specific evening hours homework happens.
Yes. A manual session works the same way for a one-off night that doesn't match your usual schedule, and ends whenever you set it to.
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.
It's the same mechanism applied to a specific setting: home, in the evening, after school. Studying can also happen in a library or during a free period at school, which our broader study guide covers.
