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What is a habit app blocker?
The category in one page: why locking apps behind real habits works when timers and pauses fail.
Earn your screen time
The mechanic explained: the scroll becomes the reward for the day you wanted to have.
How Broc works
The full tour: blocking, unlock modes, verification, permissions and pricing, honestly explained.
Comparisons
The best app blockers for Android
Seven apps ranked by the only criterion that matters: what stands between 11pm-you and the feed.
Opal alternatives for Android
ScreenZen, Unrot, Stay Focused, one sec, Forest and Broc, ranked by how hard they are to bypass.
Unrot alternative for Android
Love Unrot's earn-your-screen-time loop? See how Broc brings a similar habit-to-access trade to Android.
ScreenZen vs Broc
Pauses versus earned screen time: an honest head-to-head, including when the free option is the right call.
one sec alternatives for Android
The breathing pause works until you tap through it. The escalation ladder for what comes after.
Forest alternatives
When killing the fortieth virtual tree stops hurting, replace the tree with a stake that's real.
Broc vs screen-time limits
Why self-set timers are easy to edit or remove, and what to use instead.
Problems, solved
Why you bypass every app blocker
The bypass taxonomy: ignore buttons, outlasted delays, dead trees, and the setup that finally holds.
How to stop phone addiction
You're playing a rigged game against a thousand engineers. The five-layer system that changes the rules.
Reduce screen time on Android
The honest playbook: measurement, notifications, grayscale, friction, and the layer with teeth.
App blockers and ADHD
Reminders assume the executive function they're meant to support. The tool shape that works with the grain.
Stop doomscrolling at night
Why 11pm scrolling wins every argument, and the wall that ends it.
Block apps in the morning
Own the first hour: the feeds stay locked until the morning routine actually happened.
Blocking, by app and by goal
Block TikTok until you finish studying
A setup where the feed physically doesn't open until the session is done.
Block Instagram Reels
Instagram won't let you switch Reels off. Two honest workarounds, depending on how deep the problem goes.
Block YouTube Shorts
Keep the tutorials, lose the Shorts hole. Surgical and blunt options compared.
Block apps until you work out
The gym-first setup: the feed opens when the workout photo says so.
Turn scrolling into a reward for reading
Ten pages buys the break. The book inherits the craving.
Under the hood
AI photo verification and privacy, explained
How the photo check works, what the AI sees, and what never leaves the moment.
Block the apps. Do the habit. Earn it back.
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