Reframe: App Blocker

The apps designed to hijack your attention now ask one thing first: turn the thought around. Small pause, big difference.

You don't need another app that just locks you out. You need a reason to stop.

Reframe sits in front of the apps that pull you in — Instagram, TikTok, X, whatever you choose. When you open one, it doesn't shame you. It asks you to take the negative thought driving the urge and turn it into something truer and kinder. Reframe it, and the app unlocks for a while. Then it locks again.

It's a tiny pause with an outsized effect: over time you scroll less, and you get better at catching the thoughts that send you reaching for your phone.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Pick the apps you want to put behind a reframe.
2. When you open one, a thought appears — flip it into an empowered "I" statement.
3. The app unlocks for your focus window, then re-locks so the habit sticks.

CHOOSE YOUR RESISTANCE Gentle — one reframe, skip if you must Firm — one reframe, no skipping Hard — three reframes before it opens

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Nothing leaves your phone — ever.

Reframe is free.