Duck the notifications. Keep the vibe.
Every ping ducks your volume — mid-run, mid-set, mid-chapter. DuckBlock blocks notification sounds while your audio plays. No dips. No broken focus.
Free to try · Android 10+ · No account needed
Every chime interrupts your media. Every dip breaks your focus.
Silent mode is a sledgehammer. Your audio needs a bouncer. Android gives you exactly two options today, and both of them break your flow.
Death by a thousand dips
Every chime ducks your volume down and back up. On a 45-minute run that's 20+ interruptions. The beat drop you were pacing to gets stepped on by a promo email, and your head leaves the run to go check the phone. Again.
Now you miss everything
Phone on silent means you miss the call from your kid's school, the delivery driver at the gate, the one text that actually mattered. Total silence is not a setting, it's a gamble.
Duck the notifications instead
While your audio plays, DuckBlock ducks the notification sounds you chose and passes the people you allowed. The music never dips, the podcast never pauses, the vibe never breaks. Important things still ring. Done.
Be the duck. Dodge everything between you and the drop.
Three taps. Then your media plays start to finish, untouched.
Pick your distractions
One list, two buckets. Facebook, group chats, promo emails → Blocked. Calls, your partner, the school → Allowed. One minute, one time.
Set your focus window
Spin the dial for your run, your set, your deep-work block. Or let DuckBlock auto-detect playback and guard until your audio stops.
Stay locked in
Blocked notifications wait silently in the shade. Your media never dips, your focus never leaves. When the timer ends, everything resets on its own.
One job: nothing interrupts your audio.
No dips, no pauses, no yanking you out of the zone. The mix keeps mixing, the podcast keeps talking, the audiobook keeps reading — and the people who matter still get through.
The Duck Timer. DND with a stopwatch and a guest list.
Spin the dial for exactly how long the ducking block stays on: a 30-minute HIIT session, a 90-minute long run, a 3-hour audiobook binge. Blocked apps stay muted for the duration, allowed people ring through the whole time, and when the timer hits zero your phone goes back to normal by itself. No forgetting DND is on until Tuesday.
Per-app rules
Not all noise is equal. Block Instagram but allow WhatsApp. Block the group chat app but allow SMS. You decide app by app.
Auto on, auto off
No timer set? Protection kicks in the moment audio starts and stands down the moment it stops. Nothing to remember, nothing to un-toggle at 11pm.
VIP breakthrough
Certain people always get through, even mid-song, even mid-timer. Mark contacts as VIP and their calls and texts ring at full volume no matter what.
Nothing is lost
Blocked notifications aren't deleted, they're just silenced. Finish your run, stop the music, and everything is sitting in your shade like it just arrived.
Interruption stats
See exactly how many dips you dodged this week. Spoiler: it's more than you think, and the number is weirdly satisfying.
Works with everything
Spotify, YouTube Music, Audible, Pocket Casts, your gym app's built-in mixes. If it makes sound, DuckBlock keeps it playing untouched.
Your next set plays at 100%. Start to finish. No dips.
Install DuckBlock, sort your apps once, spin the timer, and never hear your music flinch — or lose your train of thought — again.
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