Refocus: Block Apps & Websites

I’ve been really struggling with the amount of time I’m spending on my phone. It’s interfering with all aspects of my life. This app has helped me so much!! No more spending hours mindlessly scrolling on TikTok and then hating myself for it later 🥲. I love how you can even add an extra step so in order to unblock the app it makes you sit and think for second and breathe before you can fully unblock it. Best part is that all that is free! 🙌🏼. I hope they keep it free but even if they don’t, I’d be willing to pay. That’s how much I love this app 💗. Only downside is if you select multiple apps to block, they are all blocked and unblocked together. You can’t block one and not the other. If you pay for the premium I’m pretty sure it allows you select certain apps. So I’m considering that. Sometimes I want access to one blocked app but not the others. Also there’s no ads that I’ve seen which is crazy! Most free apps have tons of stupid ads. Thank you Refocus for not doing that!! 🙏🏼

I used to just use screen time and have my boyfriend set my passcode but it was still too easy to ask for more time—I would just click “Ask for more time” and hand my phone over and my boyfriend would just put in the passcode. Now I use the free version of refocus to add an additional blocker on addicting apps and screen time my access to those apps AND refocus after 9pm to prevent late night doom scrolling. In order to access Instagram or tik tok I now have to ask my boyfriend to unblock refocus and then ask him to unblock the app itself from screen time, finally making it sufficiently annoying enough to make me think twice about using the apps. I don’t have screen time after 9pm on weekends but I still have refocus with a moderate time limit on extra addicting apps like Instagram and tik tok. This helps me live my life better by giving me more control over my ability to sleep and be present, and as an added bonus it gets me away from fixating on bizarre insecurities like “neck lines” that tend to get shoveled onto my algorithm in the name of selling more beauty products. If you don’t have a boyfriend who lives with you and you have impulse control as bad as mine (ADHD), I would guess that the premium version is worth a try or maybe ask a family member.