The iOS App Blocker That Teaches You a Language

Turn screen time
into fluency.

LingoLock blocks the apps that steal your day — Instagram, TikTok, X — and unlocks them one lesson at a time. A minute earned for every word learned.

Download on the
App Store
Coming soon on
Google Play
Loved by early scroll-recovering learners
Earned
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Sobre las ocho.
Languages
🇪🇸
Spanish
A1–B2
🇫🇷
French
A1–B2
🇩🇪
German
A1–B2
🇮🇹
Italian
A1–B2
🇧🇷
Portuguese
A1–B2
🇯🇵
Japanese
A1–B2
🇨🇳
Mandarin
A1–B2
🇰🇷
Korean
A1–B2
8 languages
Locked today
Instagram
TikTok
X
Facebook
How it works

Three skills,
one language lesson.

Every unlock asks for one of three bite-size proofs of practice.

01 · READ
1
Read.
Skim a real text message in Spanish. Tap the gist and you're moving.
02 · LISTEN
2
Listen.
A native-speaker voice note, 4 seconds. Catch what they said.
03 · REPLY
3
Reply.
Type your answer back. One full thought, in the language you're building.
The daily flip

Block IG.
Earn it back.

Pick the apps that hurt. LingoLock keeps them sealed until you finish a lesson — then drops the minutes into your scroll bank.

1
Lock IG, TikTok, X, Reels
Locked
2
Finish 1 lesson · 60 s
Lesson
3
Unlock 5 minutes of scroll
Earned
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Receipts

The average month,
rebuilt.

What our median user reclaims in their first 30 days.

82hrs
Saved per month
120
Lessons finished
600
Words practiced
72%
Average accuracy
Why now

The most powerful habit machine ever built is already in your pocket.


You reach for your phone before you know why. Not from boredom — from reflex. The unlock is a conditioned response, shaped by 96 repetitions a day, every day, for years. The world's best behavioural engineers designed it that way: a variable reward loop so precisely tuned that the anticipation of opening an app produces a dopamine response even before the screen turns on.

The result is 8 hours a day on devices — more time than most people sleep. Forty-three percent of everything we do is purely habitual, unconscious, running on autopilot. The apps colonising that autopilot were built to keep us there. Not because they're evil. Because it works.

LingoLock doesn't fight the loop. It hijacks it.

The science behind it →
Languages

Eight languages. One trade.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇮🇹Italian🇯🇵Japanese🇰🇷Korean🇵🇹Portuguese🇨🇳Mandarin
FAQ

Common questions.

Free to start

Stop scrolling,
Start learning.

Download LingoLock, pick what to block, and trade tomorrow's first scroll for tomorrow's first sentence.

Download on the
App Store
Coming soon on
Google Play