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The app is free. The key is the only thing you buy.

No subscription and no paid tier. What you pay for, once, is the key — the Bluetooth Spark or the NFC Spark — and the app needs one paired to lock. Nothing renews, and nothing expires and takes your blocking with it.

That is the whole price.

No subscription, no renewal, nothing that expires. GST is added at checkout and shipping is free anywhere in India.

Spark charges once, for a physical object. The app that does the blocking is free and has no subscription attached to it, and the key — Bluetooth, or NFC for ₹100 less — is a single payment in rupees quoted before GST. There is no tier that unlocks a feature, no monthly plan, and nothing that stops working if you stop paying — because after the first payment there is nothing left to pay.

₹0The Spark app

Free, with no subscription. Your first lock needs a paired Spark; after that, locking is one tap and never needs the key, Bluetooth or a network. Every mode you build stays yours.

₹999 ₹1,999The Spark key, from · 50% off

A single payment. The NFC Spark costs ₹100 less — no battery, but it needs a phone with an NFC reader. Buying more than one brings the price per key down — the full ladder is below.

Live from the Spark catalogue.
₹0Subscription

There is not one. No renewal date, no term, nothing to cancel, and no way for us to switch off a key you already own.

The split

What is free, and what you are buying

The line is drawn at the same place as the physics: software is free to copy, and a small manufactured object is not.

Free with your key, forever

Blocking, modes, schedules, one-tap locking, emergency unlocks and Strict mode. The app needs a paired Spark to lock; none of it expires and none of it moves behind a paywall later.

Bought once

The key moves the unlock off the phone and into the room. It is the only thing you pay for, and after the first payment there is nothing left to pay.

Nothing on the left is a trial. Nothing on the right renews.

Free with your key, forever

  • Blocking any app on your phone, grouped into modes.
  • Locking in one tap, or on a schedule — once a Spark is paired, offline and with Bluetooth off.
  • Five emergency unlocks for life (hidden in Strict mode).
  • Strict mode on Android, which makes uninstalling harder while a session runs (Safe Mode still gets past it) and hides the emergency unlocks.

None of that is a trial or a paid tier. It does not expire, and no feature above moves behind a paywall later.

What the key buys you

The unlock. Locking is a tap in the app; unlocking means fetching the key and holding your phone against it for about fifteen seconds — or tapping it, with the NFC Spark. A timer ends whether you have changed your mind or not. A key does not — it waits, in the kitchen, for you to get up.

That is a hardware problem rather than a software one, which is why it costs money once and then never again. See how it works for the loop in full.

With a Spark paired

Spark for…

The app builds you a Path: one thing a day, sized to the time locking gives back, in your own line of work. Fifty are written already — here is the kind of thing each one gets.

  • Physicians — Sketch a nerve pathway from memory, then check every branch against your atlas.
  • Surgeons — Walk an operation through in your head, step by step, before you look at your notes.
  • Dentists — Take a case that took longer than expected and find what the radiograph was telling you.
  • Pharmacists — Write the interactions you check most often from memory, then open your formulary.
  • Nurses — Rehearse a handover aloud in your unit's format, then compare it with what you wrote.
  • Physiotherapists — List the contraindications for a technique you use daily, then check your reference.
  • Advocates — Write out a procedural rule from memory, then open the bare act and mark what you missed.
  • Chartered accountants — Work one disclosure you always look up, then check it against the standard.
  • Company secretaries — Reconstruct a filing deadline calendar from memory and verify it against the rules.
  • Bankers — Build a one-page ratio sheet from your institution's own credit policy definitions.
  • Architects — Redraw a detail you have drawn a hundred times, then check it against the code.
  • Civil engineers — Size a member by hand on paper, then check it against the design you submitted.
  • Mechanical engineers — Refine the mesh on a model you solved recently and see whether it had really converged.
  • Electrical engineers — Trace a protection scheme from memory, then check the settings against the relay manual.
  • Electricians — Calculate conduit offsets from memory, then check them against your pocket guide.
  • Mechanics — Take a fault that fooled you and write down the test that would have found it first.
  • Software engineers — Sketch the service you own from memory, then mark where the timeouts actually live.
  • Data scientists — Write the assumptions behind a model you shipped, then check them against the data.
  • Product managers — Take a launch that missed and find the earliest signal that warned you.
  • Designers — Redraw a screen you shipped without opening the file, then compare the two.
  • School teachers — Plan one lesson's hardest five minutes on paper, then check it against the syllabus.
  • Professors — Explain a paper you assign to somebody outside your field, out loud, in plain words.
  • Researchers — Write the method of your current study from memory and find the step you skipped.
  • Journalists — Read something written for people on your beat, with one question to answer by the end.
  • Civil servants — Take a file you decided and write the strongest argument against your own order.
  • Founders — Calculate your runway on paper from memory, then check it against your statements.
  • Sales professionals — Say your three commonest objections and their answers out loud, under a minute each.
  • Marketing managers — Take a campaign that missed and trace where the audience stopped behaving as forecast.
  • Shopkeepers — Count what moved this week from memory, then check the till roll.
  • School students — Empty a chapter onto blank paper from memory, then fill the gaps in another colour.
  • Engineering students — Cover a worked example and solve it yourself, then find the line where you diverged.
  • Medical students — Draw a pathway and label it from memory, then check the atlas.
  • UPSC aspirants — Write one answer by hand against the clock, then compare its shape with the syllabus.
  • CA aspirants — Work one problem end to end without the solution beside you.
  • Law students — Reconstruct a judgment's reasoning in five lines, then read it again.
  • MBA aspirants — Take a case you have read and argue the side you did not choose.
  • Chefs — Write a station's whole mise en place from memory, then check your prep sheet.
  • Tailors — Take a garment that fought you and redraw the alteration on paper.
  • Photographers — Pick a frame that felt cramped and write down what a different lens would have done.
  • Artists — Test three background values on scrap before you commit one to the canvas.
  • Musicians — Play a piece through in your head, without the instrument, and find where it slows.
  • Dancers — Mark a phrase in silence and notice where your mental map hesitates.
  • Cricketers — Watch one over of a batter you admire and note the trigger movement.
  • Athletes — Run your event in your head at real speed, then write what your attention did.
  • Yoga instructors — Read your own teaching notes for a sequence, then say the cues aloud without them.
  • Massage therapists — Recall the contraindications you check for, then compare with your training notes.
  • Homemakers — Write the stain treatments you use from memory, then check the care guide.
  • Retired — Read one chapter with a pencil, and write the one idea worth keeping.
  • Between jobs — Take one thing you did well and write it as three lines somebody else could read.
  • Delivery partners — Redraw today's route from memory and mark where the minutes actually went.

Not on the list? The app has no fixed list of jobs. Whatever you type becomes your own set the first time you ask — these fifty are simply written ahead of time, so day one costs nobody a wait.

Volume

Buy more than one, pay less each

A second key is for a second person: each Spark belongs to one account. The tier counts every key in the basket, whoever each one is for.

1 key₹999per key
2–3 keys₹899.50per key₹99.50 less each
4 keys or more₹824.75per key₹174.25 less each
Live from the Spark catalogue. All prices exclude GST, which is added at checkout at 18%. Shipping is free to most of India — see the shipping policy.
QuantityPrice per keySaving per key
1 key₹999—
2–3 keys₹899.50₹99.50 less
4 keys or more₹824.75₹174.25 less

Live from the Spark catalogue. GST is added at checkout at 18%, and shipping is free to most of India — see the shipping policy.

Mix colours and kinds of key — the tier is worked out from how many keys are in the basket, not from how many of one colour. Each person's account uses one kind of Spark, Bluetooth or NFC.

Tax

GST, and the number you actually pay

Every price on this site is quoted excluding GST, which is the convention Indian businesses buy on. GST of 18% is added at checkout, so one key at ₹999 comes to ₹1,178.82 paid. A GST invoice is available on request.

Nothing else is added, except a flat ₹100 for delivery to J&K, Ladakh, Himachal, Kerala and the North-East, which checkout shows once you type your PIN code. There is no handling charge, no packaging charge and no payment surcharge, and the figure Razorpay shows you is the checkout total you have already seen.

Payment is UPI, cards or netbanking through Razorpay. The full terms are in the shipping policy and the refund and cancellation policy.

One Spark key
Key, ex-GST₹999
GST at 18%₹179.82
Shipping, anywhere in India₹0
You pay₹1,178.82
GST invoice on request. No handling, packaging or payment surcharge.
Included

Things we do not charge extra for

  • Shipping, anywhere in India our couriers reach.
  • A GST invoice, on request.
  • Replacement, free and including postage, if it arrives damaged or doesn't work and you tell us within seven days, with a photo.
  • A one-year warranty against manufacturing defects.
  • The app, its modes, its schedules and every update to them.

Not covered, so that it is said plainly: battery replacement, physical damage, water damage and loss. The Bluetooth Spark takes a CR2032 coin cell you can buy anywhere; the NFC Spark has no battery. Full detail in the refund and cancellation policy.

The argument

Why there is no subscription

A subscription is rent, and rent makes sense when the thing keeps coming from us — when what you pay for in a given month is delivered that month, and stops when we stop sending it. Blocking is not that. Your phone does it through the operating system, and your phone checks the key itself — over Bluetooth, or with an NFC tap. The app still talks to us for pairing, settings and session reports, and we run this shop and your order; the key pays for all of it. That is the choice we made: charge once for an object, rather than monthly for permission to keep using the object you already own.

It also changes what you own. A key that is a credential for a service stops working when the service does. A key your own phone checks does not — once it is paired, unlocking needs nothing to renew and no answer from our servers.

None of that is conditional on our costs staying low. The blocking app is free and stays free: there is no paid tier waiting to be introduced, and nothing you can do in the app today moves behind a payment later. The longer argument is on the blog: Why a focus tool shouldn't be a subscription. If you are weighing the alternatives, here are the app blockers that work without a subscription, ours included.

Two lines over 5 years. A one-time purchase steps up once and stays flat. A subscription steps up again every year.DAY 1YEAR 1YEAR 2YEAR 3YEAR 4YEAR 5A SUBSCRIPTION · PAID AGAIN EVERY TERMTHE KEY · PAID ONCE
Two lines over 3 years. A one-time purchase steps up once and stays flat. A subscription steps up again every year.DAY 1YEAR 1YEAR 2YEAR 3SUBSCRIPTION · PAID EVERY TERMTHE KEY · PAID ONCE
The shape, not the figures: no price is drawn and no rival is named. One deal is paid once. The other is paid again for as long as you want to stay blocked.
Worth knowing before you compare

Several of the products in this category charge a subscription, and in at least one case the physical fob is inert without one — you buy the hardware and it does nothing until you also hold a paid plan. That is a materially different deal from a one-time purchase, and it is the single thing most worth checking on any product you are weighing against this one.

We have written that comparison out properly, with prices and dates, on the comparison pages — including the cases where the other product is the better buy.

Before you ask

The awkward questions

Is there a subscription?

No. There is no subscription, no renewal and nothing to cancel. The app is free and stays free; the key — Bluetooth or NFC — is bought once. If Spark stopped selling keys tomorrow, the key you already have would keep unlocking the phone it is paired with, because your phone checks the key itself rather than asking our servers.

Can I use the app without a key?

The app is free, but it needs a paired Spark to lock — there is no timer mode and no key-free trial. That is the whole design: locking is a tap in the app, and unlocking means fetching the key. So the key is the one thing you buy, once. The app isn't in the App Store or Google Play yet.

Do I need an account?

Yes, to use a Spark: pairing a key needs you to sign in, with an internet connection, once. After that your phone checks the key itself. Checkout is guest checkout — an email address, a phone number and a delivery address. An account uses one kind of Spark and one active phone at a time.

Is there a student discount?

No. There is no student discount and no student code. Volume pricing applies to everyone — buy more than one key and the price per key drops, which is the ladder shown above — and a friend's referral link or a promotional code will take money off if you have one. There just isn't a student-specific price.

The rest of them — enforcement limits, lost keys, what happens with Bluetooth off — are on the FAQ.

No customer quotes here yet, and none invented to fill the space: Batch 01 has not shipped, so nobody has lived with a Spark long enough to have an opinion worth printing. What we can show you instead is what it costs, what is in the box and what happens if it breaks — all of it above, and all of it checkable today.

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Read the rest before you spend anything

One payment, then nothing

Buy the key once. Keep the app free.

The app is free, with no subscription, and it locks once your Spark is paired. The key is the part that moves the unlock into another room, and it is the only thing you will ever be charged for.