grounded - Eliminate the Drift

Real friction, not fake streaks. grounded blocks distracting apps and forces a typed confession to unlock. The only app that succeeds when you stop using it.

You already know your phone is the problem. Every "just five minutes" turns into an hour. Every screen time app you tried gave you a cute streak and a pat on the head, and you deleted it within a week.

grounded is different. It has teeth.

eliminate the drift.

HOW IT WORKS

You pick the apps that are wasting your time. Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, X — whatever pulls you off task.

You set a schedule. Blocks turn on automatically.

When you try to open a blocked app, grounded hands you a sentence. You type it back. One wrong character clears the field and you start over. No copy-paste.

Once you finish, the app opens for 15 minutes. Then grounded locks it again.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

• No badges. No trophies. • No extra hardware. The phone you already have is the only thing you need. • You choose how hard to make it. Mild is observational. Brutal is existential. • You can pick an accountability contact. They get a text every time you break a block. • You cannot weaken the settings during an active block. You can only make them harder.

WHAT YOU GET

• Unlimited blocks and schedules. • Choice of difficulty levels. • Optional accountability contact. • Optional block reminders, evening summary, and streak milestones. • Daily and weekly stats on unlocks, confessions, and clean days.

ONE-TIME PRICE. NO SUBSCRIPTION.

You should not have to pay every month for the privilege of using your own phone less. grounded is a one-time purchase. Pay once. Own it forever.

PRIVACY

grounded does not collect, transmit, or sell your data. Everything stays on your device. We do not have servers. We do not have analytics. We cannot see who you are, which apps you block, or what you type.

grounded uses Apple's Screen Time and Family Controls frameworks. The identifiers of the apps you select are opaque tokens Apple provides — even we cannot decode them.

WHO IT'S FOR

Adults who are done pretending they have willpower.