Unplug — don't scroll your life away

Don't scroll your life away.

You open one app to answer a message. An hour later you're still there.

22:41 One message 23:21 Still scrolling 23:22 Can't say what you saw

Unplug closes those apps and keeps them closed until tomorrow. No password. No way back in.

No ads Your screen time stays on your phone

No exit, no excuse, no password.

You pick the apps once, when your head is clear. You press one button. Then they stay closed until midnight.

No password

There is nothing to type.

So there's nothing to type in a weak moment.

No "are you sure?"

Other apps ask. This one just closes them.

When a blocked app opens, you see a wall. Not a question.

No early unlock

There is no button that opens them before tomorrow.

Adding an app to the list is instant. Taking one out takes two hours. At midnight the list is yours again.

Honest answer

Can I get around it?

Yes. One way. You go into iOS Settings and take Unplug's permission away, or you delete the app. We don't hide that. It's slow, it feels bad, and you have to really want it. That's the whole idea.

Here's what a day with it looks like.

Morning

You pick today's apps and how many minutes you get.

One tap. You have ten minutes to change your mind. After that, it holds.

The sheet where you confirm the apps to block, shown as App 1 and App 2 with lock icons, and a 90-minute daily limit.

Afternoon

You see how much time is left.

Not how much you've wasted. When the minutes are gone, the apps close. A day you left your phone alone never counts against you.

The home screen with today's screen time and the daily limit.

When you're bored

You do a small job instead.

Go for a bike ride. Call someone. Take a photo when you're done and the app checks it. You get points, and a few minutes back.

The quests screen with today's small jobs.

Evening

You see the hours you got back.

It's a guess, based on what you told the app about yourself. The app says so every time it shows the number.

The analysis screen with the hours you got back.

Focus timer

Set 25 minutes. Your own music keeps playing.

Pick a length — 25 minutes is the default — and start it. Your own music keeps playing; the timer runs underneath it instead of cutting it off. While it counts down it sits on your lock screen, so you don't have to open the app to check. When it ends, you get XP.

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The Lumis chat: three welcome messages from the coach, the user asking for a plan, and Lumis asking whether it should be quick or personal.

Lumis, the coach

Tell it "I keep failing my goals". It reads your numbers and writes you a plan.

A chat. You type what's going on — "I keep failing my goals", "I feel anxious without my phone" — and it answers with the numbers it can see: your streak, your level, your focus minutes. It can write you a plan for the week, and you can save that plan into the app. It's an AI, and the app says so. It never sees what you do on your phone, only what you do in Unplug. Part of Unlimited.

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Unplug University: 2 of 66 lessons done, the Brain and Psychology course, and the library with topics like Social Media and Youth.

66 short lessons

Why your phone is built the way it is. You can't fail a lesson.

Unplug University. Sixty-six short lessons on how your phone is built, why the feed never ends, and what actually helps. Each one is a few cards you swipe through, with a question in between. You can't fail: a wrong answer just steps aside and you pick again. Finishing a lesson gives you XP. The first topic is free, the rest are part of Pro.

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Emergency Lock

About to scroll? One tap, and every blocked app closes right now.

For the moment you feel it coming. You open Emergency Lock, type how many minutes you want — 25 is what it suggests — and tap the big red button. One tap, no confirmation. Every app on your block list closes on the spot and stays closed until the time is up. There is no button to end it early. When the time runs out, the app asks whether you made it. Part of Pro.

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Friends

See your friends' streaks. The score comes from what you do in the app, never from your screen time.

Add a friend with a code. You see each other's streak, level and rank, and you get a push when a friend hits a milestone — 7 days, 30 days, a new rank. What you never see is their screen time. The score comes only from what they do in the app. There is no list of who spent the least time on their phone, on purpose.

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The Recovery screen with the Block adult content card switched on, and the line that Unplug will not switch it off before Saturday at 22:49.

Block adult sites

Turn it on and it stays on for three days. You can't switch it off earlier.

One switch. Once it's on, it stays on for 72 hours — the app won't let you turn it off before that, and the dialog tells you the exact time before you confirm. After the 72 hours nothing happens by itself: the filter keeps running, you just get the switch back. It works in every browser on the phone, not inside apps like Reddit or X. You can add exceptions for sites it blocks by mistake.

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The Mind Games screen: Box Breathing, 4-7-8 Relax, Deep Calm and 5-4-3-2-1 Ground, with the Soundscapes section starting below.

Breathing and sounds

Four exercises to calm down, and five sounds that keep playing with the screen off.

The Mind Games screen. At the top, four exercises: Box Breathing (four equal counts), 4-7-8 Relax (a long exhale), Deep Calm (out longer than in), and 5-4-3-2-1 Ground — that one is not breathing, you go through your five senses one at a time. Below them, five sounds: campfire, ocean, rain, forest, café. Pick one and it keeps playing when you lock the phone, with play and pause on the lock screen.

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The blocking is the easy part.

What you do with the time is the point.

Two hands writing in a notebook on a dark wooden table, lit by a warm lamp, with a mug and two books beside them.

This is what an evening looks like when your phone is face down.

The same nightstand with the lamp switched on, an open book, and the phone lying face down beside it.

A dark bedroom at night. A phone lies face up on the nightstand, its bright screen the only light in the room.

Same nightstand, two ways. On the left, the phone is the only light in the room. On the right, a lamp and a book. Drag the handle.

Three things people ask.

What does it cost?

It's free to start.

Free blocks 2 apps. Pro blocks 5 and adds photo-checked quests. Unlimited blocks as many as you want and adds the coach. The prices are in the app, in your own currency.

Does it see what I do?

No. It can't.

Your screen time never leaves your phone. Apple doesn't let an app send it anywhere, and we couldn't if we wanted to. There are no ads and no tracking in the app.

Does it actually work?

It works because there's nothing to argue with.

But we won't promise you a number. The hours it shows you are a guess, based on what you told it. The app says that every time.

Don't scroll your life away.

They all had a way out.

It shows you a limit. You tap "Ignore Limit". Done.

It works until the first bad day.

It's back on your phone in twenty seconds.

You go and get it.

No exit, no excuse, no password.

Here's what a day with it looks like.

You pick today's apps and how many minutes you get.

You see how much time is left.

You do a small job instead.

You see the hours you got back.

And a few more things.

Focus timer

Lumis, the coach

66 short lessons

Emergency Lock

Friends

Block adult sites

Breathing and sounds

The blocking is the easy part.

This is what an evening looks like when your phone is face down.

Three things people ask.

Tomorrow you'll wish you started today.