A Fella routine locks the social apps you choose on Sunday through Thursday nights and holds until morning, so a late scroll before school isn't a decision anyone has to make in the moment.
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A school night has its own shape: homework finishes, there's downtime before bed, and a feed with no stopping point fills whatever space that downtime leaves. This isn't a homework-time block, and it isn't a generic every-night sleep routine either. It's the specific stretch between "done for the day" and "asleep," on the nights that actually matter for the next morning's alarm.
Select the social apps that eat the evening and build a routine for the nights before school, typically Sunday through Thursday. Weekends can stay off the routine entirely, or run on a looser schedule if that fits better.
Set the start time for after homework and dinner, when the unstructured evening actually begins, and the end time for morning. The routine handles the rest.
A feed doesn't announce a natural stopping point. Once homework is done, the evening is unstructured, and there's always one more post, one more video. By the time "bedtime" technically arrives, an hour or more has already quietly gone.
Starting the block earlier in the evening, not just at lights-out, closes that gap. The routine can begin right when homework ends, not just when someone decides it's finally time to sleep.
Leave Phone, Messages, and any alarm apps off the blocked list entirely, so those keep working exactly as normal. For the one time a class group message genuinely can't wait, each session includes a single 5-minute emergency unlock, then the selected apps lock again automatically.
If it's games, not social media, eating the school-night evening, see our block games on school nights page. For the homework hours themselves rather than the evening after, see block apps during homework. For social media in general, not just school nights, see our social media blocker guide.
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A generic bedtime routine runs every night the same way. A school-night routine is tied to the days school runs, typically Sunday through Thursday, and can start earlier in the evening than a pure sleep routine, covering the whole after-homework stretch, not just the final wind-down.
Yes. A routine can be set to specific days of the week, so Sunday through Thursday nights can run the block while Friday and Saturday stay open.
Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a school-night routine can block Instagram, TikTok, and similar apps while leaving messaging, notes, and any study apps untouched.
No. A school-night block uses the same routine and session mechanism as any other Fella block, just scoped to social apps and set for the evenings before school.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs checking, and the selected apps lock again automatically once the five minutes end.
