Brick Night automatically blocks phone apps in your bedroom

Brick Night is a new $129 device from Brick that automatically blocks selected apps when your phone enters a defined bedroom zone. The company says it is designed to turn the physical space where you sleep into a no-scroll boundary, rather than asking you to remember to activate a software setting every night.¹

How Brick Night works

Brick Night uses Bluetooth to estimate how close your phone is to the small hardware unit. In the Brick app, users choose which apps and websites to block, define a space of up to 25 by 25 feet, and set the hours when the block should apply. When the phone enters that zone during the chosen window, the selected apps are blocked; leaving the space or reaching the end of the schedule removes the block, according to Brick.¹

The device is battery-powered, so it does not need charging. Brick says the package includes two CR2477 batteries, and lists a midnight-blue ABS and TPU enclosure measuring 73 by 73 by 45 millimetres. Multiple people can use the same unit with separate settings in the app, while the hardware works with both iOS and Android.¹

That makes Brick Night different from the original Brick. The older device is a physical tap-to-unlock app blocker, while Brick Night is built around location: it automatically applies the chosen restrictions when the user is in the bedroom or another defined space. The original Brick costs $59, whereas Brick Night costs $129. A bundle containing both devices is listed at $169.¹

Availability and the bigger idea

Brick Night is available from Brick in midnight blue. The product arrives as a deliberately physical answer to a problem normally handled through Screen Time, Digital Wellbeing or Do Not Disturb. Those software tools depend on people sticking to their own limits; Brick Night adds a nearby object and a location rule that makes the restriction harder to ignore.

CNET reports that the device launched on Thursday and is intended to block apps automatically when the user enters the bedroom. Its report also notes that the product is aimed at sleep and winding down rather than general daytime focus.² That distinction matters: Brick Night is not a phone lock or a medical sleep device, and it cannot prove that blocking apps will improve any individual person's sleep. Research cited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and other sleep-health organisations has linked screen use in bed with poorer sleep outcomes, but Brick Night's own marketing claims should not be treated as clinical evidence.³

Our opinion

Brick Night's appeal is straightforward: it moves the decision to stop scrolling away from the phone itself. The physical boundary could be more useful than another notification or timer for people who routinely override software limits at bedtime. The £/$ price conversion, battery life and Bluetooth-based distance estimate will still matter to UK buyers, and the device is only as useful as its zone detection and app support. For now, it looks like a focused hardware companion for a specific habit, not a universal solution to poor sleep or phone overuse.