A Fella routine locks the shopping apps you choose at the same time every night and holds until morning, so the decision to stop happens once, when you set it up, instead of every night in bed.
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Late-night browsing feels lower-stakes than it is: tired decision-making plus an endless product feed is exactly how a five-minute check becomes an hour, or an order you didn't mean to place. If shopping apps are the specific category doing that and the rest of your phone isn't the problem, a routine scoped to just those apps is simpler than blocking everything.
Select the shopping apps you actually browse and set the start time to whenever you actually want to be off them, and the end time to whenever you get up. The routine begins the session on its own, so there is nothing to open once you're already in bed.
Everything else on your phone stays untouched, including messaging, your alarm, and anything else you might reach for at night.
Decision-making is worse when you're tired, and a shopping app's recommendation feed is built to keep suggesting something new regardless of the time. Removing the option to browse at all avoids relying on willpower at the exact moment it's weakest.
Leave Phone, Messages, and your alarm off the blocked list entirely, so those keep working exactly as normal. For the one time something genuinely needs checking, each session includes a single 5-minute emergency unlock, then the selected apps lock again automatically.
If other apps are part of the same bedtime pattern, not just shopping, see our broader block apps while sleeping page, or stop scrolling at night for the behavior side of why this happens. For blocking shopping apps beyond bedtime too, see our shopping app blocker guide.
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Yes. A routine starts a blocking session on the days and times you choose, so a nightly block begins on its own once set up, rather than needing to be turned on each evening.
No. A nightly shopping block uses the same routine and session mechanism as any other Fella block, just scoped to the apps you choose and applied to bedtime hours.
Delivery notifications generally arrive through the system, not the app itself, so most tracking alerts still come through. Opening the app to act on one, however, is blocked until the session ends or you use the emergency unlock.
No, as long as you do not add those apps to the block. Fella blocks only the apps you select, so leaving Clock, Phone, and Messages unselected keeps alarms and calls working normally.
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.
