Let the morning decide.
After 8pm the apps you'd regret stop opening: the ex, the post, the checkout, the work email, the 3am scroll, the dating app. Whatever you still want to say goes in the vault and comes back at 8am, when the one deciding is the one who has to live with it.
Free for one app. 49.99 a year for all of them. Cheaper than the consequences.- No account
- No server
- Free to start
- Nothing leaves your phone
Four screens. That's the whole app.
Built for the version of you that's had a few, had a bad day, or just hasn't slept.
The one writing to the ex at 1am. The one with a full basket at midnight, paying full price. The one who posts at night and spends the morning deleting. The one still swiping at 2. The one answering a work email in a tone nobody should read. The one who opened an app for five minutes and looked up at 3am.
Sometimes there has been a drink. Often there hasn't: a week that wouldn't end, a night you couldn't sleep, an argument still running in your head, a flat that got too quiet. Different routes, same place by morning.
The app doesn't ask which one you are. It runs on a clock. Same shield either way.
Sleep on it. Decide rested.
8pm, the lock lands
The apps you picked in daylight stop opening. Notifications still arrive, so you still see a message land. Some apps let you reply straight from the notification, and nothing can stop that, so the app shows you how to switch those replies off.
Later, you try anyway
The shield comes up instead of the app. If there is something you need to say, the vault takes it: you hit send and nobody receives anything. The basket, the video and the swipe wait too. Nothing is gone, it is just not tonight.
8am, you decide
It comes back in daylight. A message: destroy it, or write this morning's version and send it yourself. A basket: still there, if you still want it. The app never sends or buys anything, ever.
The part you can put a number on.
The shopping basket you filled at midnight and paid full price for. The flight you booked and can't take. The hours you pay for at half past eight the next morning. The email that cost you a client. The message that ended up in front of a lawyer. And the four figures that leave an account on a creator platform, in small amounts, across one bad week. Some of it never shows up on a statement: the text you re-read at 8am, the post, the argument at 2am, and the right swipe at completely the wrong hour. Same failure, different invoice. This costs less than one of them. You can always earn more money. Regrets take a lot longer to go away, and some never do.
Not a puzzle. A hard question.
Anyone can do a sum at 1am, so a puzzle proves nothing. The Ten asks the things late nights switch off: say plainly what you're about to do, what it will cost you tomorrow, what your best friend would say if they could see the screen. Twenty seconds minimum per question, typed answers, no going back. Finish them and you get ten minutes: on Android the one app you came for, on iPhone everything you shielded, because Apple gives no way to open just one. Then it shuts again for an hour, and after five goes the shield stays up until 08:00.
Are you talking to them or to who they used to be?
Is this message for them or for you?
Zero replies, zero likes. Still go ahead?
Did you come for one thing, or just come?
Same amount in cash. Would you count it out?
You open the bank app tomorrow. What is the top line?
Write one sentence you would read out in court.
You think this app knows nothing about your situation. It doesn't.
This screen cannot tell if you are right. You can.
537 questions in six sets, so the night you are having gets the questions it needs. None of them is arithmetic.
How it compares
Blocking apps at night is the easy part, they all do it. The only question that matters is what happens at 8pm when you decide you want in anyway.
| Blocker | Price | Holds by default? | Makes you stop and think | Message vault | Ring a friend button | Tells you when it was off | App Store privacy label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dont You Do It | Free, or 6.99/mo · 49.99/yr | Yes | 10 questions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Data Not Collected |
| Apple Screen Time | Free, built in | No | No | No | No | No | · |
| Opal | $99.99/yr | If you switch it on | No | No | No | No | Used to track you |
| one sec | $19.99/yr | No | A pause | No | No | No | Not linked to you |
| ScreenZen | Free | No | A pause | No | No | No | Not linked to you |
| Freedom | $39.99/yr | If you switch it on | No | No | No | No | Used to track you |
| Jomo | $29.99/yr | If you switch it on | A pause | No | No | No | Used to track you |
| Brick | $59 hardware | Yes | No | No | No | No | Linked to you |
| Clearspace | $44.99/yr | No | A pause | No | No | No | Used to track you |
"If you switch it on" means a strict mode you have to find and turn on yourself, usually on the paid plan. Jomo keeps two emergency unlocks a week even then. Ours is on from the first night, and nothing is for sale at night.
Where others do more: one sec, Freedom and ScreenZen also run on a computer. Prices and privacy labels are from the US App Store, checked in September 2026.
Same promise. Two different locks.
The hardest lock to cheat.
- Apple's own Screen Time lock. Force-closing the app or restarting the phone changes nothing.
- Websites go dark in every browser, Safari included. List as many as you like, even on the free plan.
- Hard mode, if you want it: no app can be deleted until the morning.
- One switch shuts OnlyFans, Fansly and similar sites.
Apple's rules: finishing The Ten opens everything you blocked for ten minutes, and the lock sends you into the app with a notification. The app is in English for now.
Get it on the App StoreThe questions, right on the lock.
- The Ten runs on the lock screen itself. No detour.
- Finish it and only the app you came for opens, for ten minutes.
- Shut every browser at once, not just a list of sites.
- The lock names the app it just stopped. In 35 languages.
- Discreet icon: a plain icon and a dull name on your home screen and in every notification.
- Sleep on it: share a link, a cart or a message to the app at night. It waits for you in the morning.
Android's rules: some phones put apps to sleep at 3am, so setup asks you to switch battery saving off for this one. No app can stop itself being uninstalled.
Get it on Google PlayBoth phones get the vault, ring a friend, the morning report, the same hours and the same prices.
Cheaper than the consequences.
Every night tool, full strength, on one app. On Android that one thing can be every browser instead. You choose the hours. Permanent, not a trial.
The shield covers everything you choose. Your full history and the money ledger, in daylight. We tell you before any price change, and you can leave.
All of Pro, now and later. No renewal and nothing to cancel. Yours for as long as the app exists.
Every plan is identical after 8pm. The shield, the vault and the ten questions are the same whether you have paid us or not. Paying widens what is covered, never what happens on the night.
- Not sure how long you will need it? Start monthly.
- No trial, because the free version already works. We tell you before a yearly plan renews.
- Pro bought on Android does not carry over to iPhone. There is no account, so we cannot see it.
iPhone and Android.
Get it on the App Store Get it on Google Play- Every night tool on every plan
- The vault, The Ten, the morning report
- The free tier is not a trial
- Nothing sold at 2am
- No ads, ever
- Updates included
This won't stop you if you really want it.
Delete the app or take its permissions away and it does nothing. We're friction, not a prison, and we'll tell you in the morning exactly when protection was off. An app that lies to you about this isn't worth having.
No account. No server. Nothing leaves your phone. Not who you blocked, not what you wrote.
The ones people actually ask
How do I stop myself texting my ex at night?
The methods that hold are the ones you can't reverse on your own. Blocking a number and deleting a contact both take under a minute to undo. On iPhone, set Screen Time Downtime from 20:00 with Communication Limits set to Specific Contacts, and have someone else set the passcode, that combination is free and survives a bad night. This app adds the piece Screen Time doesn't have: somewhere for the message to go. You write it, it's locked until 8am, and by then you usually don't want to send it.
How do I stop spending money late at night?
No phone setting can veto a purchase inside an app you've already opened, so every workable barrier sits earlier in the chain: remove stored cards, set a limit or freeze in your banking app, and block the apps, browsers included, on a nightly schedule. If the spending happens on a website, block every browser on the phone as an app too, website blocking only reaches Safari, which is the single most common reason people think blocking doesn't work.
Is there an app that blocks apps at night?
Yes, several. Apple's own Screen Time does it free, Downtime on a schedule plus App Limits set to one minute, and you should try that first. Paid options include Opal, one sec, Jomo and AppBlock. What none of them have is a vault: somewhere to put the thing you wanted to send, so the urge has an exit that isn't the send button.
Does this app know if I've been drinking?
No, and nothing on a phone can. This app is a clock. It shields what you chose during the hours you chose, and it makes no assumption about why tonight feels urgent, which for a lot of people has nothing to do with drinking at all.
Is the free version crippled?
No. The vault, the ten questions and the morning report are all free, forever. The only limit is how much the shield covers: one app. On Android you can pick every browser on the phone instead. If your problem is one app, whether that's a messenger, a shop or YouTube, that is the whole app and you never have to pay us. If it is three apps and the browser at 2am, that is when it costs money.
Is this a breakup app?
No. Writing to an ex is the one people talk about. The rest are just as common: the basket at midnight, the post, the 3am scroll, the swipe, the email to your boss. Same hour, same failure, different app.
Subscription?
Yes, or pay once. 6.99 a month, 49.99 a year, or 99.99 once with no renewal, and a free version under all three that never expires. Paying buys more apps shielded. It never buys a way past the shield on the night, and it never will.
What if I need to get out in an emergency?
There isn't one, and that's the point. No unlock button, no override, no emergency purchase. Nothing to buy at 8pm, ever. Your ways out are: answer ten questions and you get ten minutes (one app on Android, everything you shielded on iPhone; then it shuts again for an hour, and after five goes the shield stays up until morning), write it in the vault, ring the mate you nominated, or wait until morning. Calls, emergency services and maps are never blocked. And if you genuinely need it all off, your phone's own settings do it in seconds, we don't obstruct that, we just tell you in the morning that it happened.
Can it see what I spend or who I message?
On iPhone it can't: Apple hands the app anonymous tokens for what you pick, so it never learns which apps they are. On Android it does know, and that's how the shield can name the app it just stopped, but knowing and sending are different things, and there is nowhere for it to send anything. No account, no server, no analytics. Any number you see is one you typed yourself.
Is it the same on iPhone?
Same idea, with three differences that Apple decides. On iPhone you block websites rather than whole browsers, because Apple does not let any app shut Safari itself. Finishing The Ten opens everything you shielded for ten minutes, not just one app, because Apple gives no way to open one. And the shield is Apple's own screen: its buttons cannot open our app, so they send you a notification that takes you to the vault or The Ten. On Android the questions run right on the shield. Everything else, the vault, the morning report, the hours and the prices, is the same.
What stays open at night?
Everything you did not pick. The shield only covers the apps you chose in daylight, and on iPhone the websites you listed. Calls and emergency services always work, and so does everything else on the phone.
Does it clash with Screen Time, Focus or Do Not Disturb?
No. It works alongside them and doesn't change their settings. If something else also limits an app, the stricter rule wins. On iPhone it is built on Apple's own Screen Time system, so the limits and Downtime you already have keep working as before.