A contract that has not settled yet has a price that keeps changing, which turns one decision into a feed you can check indefinitely. Fella blocks the Kalshi app by default and gives you one 5-minute emergency unlock per session.
Kalshi is a prediction market, not a sportsbook, and that distinction is real. It is a CFTC-regulated exchange where you trade event contracts that settle at one dollar or zero, on outcomes ranging from economic data to elections to sports. You are buying and selling contracts at a price, not taking fixed odds from a house.
That difference matters legally and it matters here, but not in the way people expect. If you are looking for a way to stop opening the app, the regulatory category is not what is holding you. This page is about the app on your phone, not about whether the product counts as gambling.
A placed bet resolves when the event does. A Kalshi position has a price the whole time. Because contracts trade continuously, an unsettled position is marked at a visible number that moves all day, so there is always something new to look at. That is a checking loop a fixed-odds slip does not have.
Being able to exit early adds a second loop on top of the first. If you can sell before settlement, every price move becomes a live decision about whether to take it now. The question reopens itself every time you look, which is what makes it hard to put the phone down rather than hard to pick it up.
Short-dated markets compress the gap between acting and finding out. When a contract resolves in hours rather than months, the interval between a decision and its outcome shrinks toward the pattern that makes any of these products difficult to use occasionally.
“It is a regulated exchange, not betting” is accurate, and it is also the sentence that gets the app opened. A product that reads as research or investing clears an internal bar that a sportsbook does not, which is why people who deleted betting apps sometimes keep this one installed.
This is the same pattern we describe on Robinhood, where the underlying product is genuinely investing and the checking behaviour still looks familiar. The test worth applying is not what the product is classified as, but how often you open it and whether you can say why.
Notifications work on that frame too. A price alert presents itself as information you needed rather than a prompt to open the app. Turning them off in Settings > Notifications > Kalshi is a separate step from blocking, and worth doing either way.
Apple's Screen Time can limit Kalshi for free, and it is worth trying first. Settings > Screen Time > App Limits, add a limit, turn on Block at End of Limit. The gap is the Ignore Limit button, which clears the limit in one tap at the exact moment a position is moving. We cover that on ignoring Screen Time limits.
Fella runs on the same Apple frameworks without that button. Kalshi stays blocked for the whole session rather than until you dismiss a screen, and each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Everything you do not select stays available.
Block the set, not the single app. If sportsbooks or other trading apps are still installed, blocking Kalshi alone usually relocates the habit. The gambling app blocker page covers choosing that full set, and a routine can start the session automatically if the pattern is time-based: see app blocking with schedules.
It does not touch your account. Nothing is closed, restricted or logged out, and your balance, trade history and settings are unchanged.
It does not place, cancel or settle anything. Fella cannot trade on your behalf. Open contracts settle on their own terms, deposits and withdrawals are unaffected, and no funds move because an app is blocked.
It does mean you cannot watch or exit a position from the app during a session. That is worth planning around rather than discovering. The 5-minute emergency unlock exists for exactly this, and blocking from a flat position avoids the conflict entirely.
It does not cover the website. Fella blocks apps, not browsers. To close kalshi.com as well, add it to Never Allow using Screen Time Web Content restrictions.
You can set a Screen Time app limit on Kalshi, or use Fella to keep the app blocked by default with one 5-minute emergency unlock per blocking session. Both act on the app on your iPhone, not on your Kalshi account.
No. Fella blocks the Kalshi app on your iPhone. It does not close your account, place or cancel trades, settle or sell open contracts, move funds, or touch deposits and withdrawals. Open positions continue to settle on their own terms.
They are unaffected, but you also cannot watch or exit them from the app while a session is running. If you hold contracts you may need to act on, that is what the 5-minute emergency unlock is for. Many people block Kalshi only after they are flat.
Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange where you trade event contracts, so legally it is not a sportsbook. For the purpose of blocking it, the label matters less than the behaviour: if you are opening it compulsively, the regulatory category does not change the checking loop.
The limit screen carries an Ignore Limit button that clears it in one tap. With an open position moving in price, the pull to check is strongest at exactly the moment that tap is easiest.
No. Fella blocks iPhone apps, not websites. For the browser side, use Apple's Screen Time Web Content restrictions to add the site to Never Allow.
Usually yes. Blocking one app while a similar one stays installed tends to move the habit rather than end it. Selecting the full set you would realistically open is what closes the gap.
Yes. A Fella routine can start a blocking session automatically on the days and times you choose, and you can also start a session manually at any point.
