App to block scrolling

The app that stops doom scrolling.

Not a timer you can dismiss. Not a nag screen you swipe past. iOS itself holds the door — through the same machinery Apple built for parental controls — so a blocked app meets a shield instead of a feed.

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No account, ever No analytics Nothing leaves your phone
A blocked app showing the Verboten shield instead of opening
🛡️ iOS holds the door
⏱️ Two minutes, then shut
How it works

Three taps, then never again

Setting it up takes less time than the scroll you were about to start.

Pick your apps

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — whatever your evenings disappear into. You choose them through Apple's own picker.

Turn it on

One switch holds all of them. Blocking survives restarts, and closing Verboten changes nothing.

Get on with your evening

They stop opening. When you reach for one out of habit, a shield meets you with a line worth reading.

A look inside

Built to be forgotten about

Every screen does one thing. There is nothing to configure on a Sunday afternoon.

The blocked list with four apps behind one switch
Pick your doom scrolling apps
A blocking window set from 10pm to 7am
Block only when it matters
Granting two minutes to a blocked app
Two minutes, not the evening
Pausing blocking for one hour
Pause on your terms
Today's AI news bulletin on the home screen
Latest news to keep you updated
Settings: appearance, permissions, windows, reminders
Nothing to sign up for
The details that matter

The ways out are deliberate

A blocker you cannot escape gets deleted by the weekend. These are the exits — each one built to close behind you.

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Two minutes, not the evening

Need an app right now? Take a couple of minutes. It shuts again by itself and the setting returns to Never — so a moment of weakness never quietly becomes a permanent exception.

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Pause, with an end

Everything opens for as long as you chose — thirty minutes, an hour, the rest of today — then blocking comes back on its own. No decision to remember.

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Windows, not all-or-nothing

Evenings, work hours, overnight. A window can cover every app or just the one you can't leave alone. With no window set, it is simply always on.

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Something better to read

An optional bulletin of the day's AI news from real newsrooms. Always the latest news, to keep you updated with the fast-changing AI world.

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Two hundred lines worth reading

Every block shows one. A fact, a thought, a reason to look away. None of them scold you.

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An honest number

Today's screen time, drawn by Apple's own reporting — and a count of how many times the wall held.

Privacy

We cannot see any of it

Not a policy we could quietly reverse — a fact about how the app is built.

No account to create

No sign-in, no profile, no server holding anything of yours — because there is nothing to hold.

We don't know which apps you blocked

iOS hands the app opaque tokens, not names. Verboten literally cannot read your choices, and they never leave the device.

No analytics, no ads, no trackers

Nobody is counting your taps. There is no third-party SDK inside profiling you on someone else's behalf.

One request, and it's about the news

If the bulletin is on, the app asks our server for today's headlines — the same ones everybody gets, with no identifier attached. Turn it off and the app fetches nothing at all.

Read the full privacy policy →

Get your evenings back

Pick the apps once. They stop opening. Nothing to maintain, nothing to sign up for, and nobody watching whether you managed it.

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