Reset - Dopamine Detox

Block the apps that eat your time. A friend holds the key, and now not even you can open it. Free, private, no account, no subscription.

Reset blocks the apps that eat your time, for real, and lets a friend hold the key.

Tap Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, whole categories or any website, pick a length, and they vanish from your Home Screen until the block ends. It runs on Apple's Screen Time, so it holds even if you close Reset. There's no "ignore limit" button.

THE FRIEND KEY Every blocker has an off switch, and late at night you will find it. So Reset lets you give the key to someone else. Your friend gets a link. It shows a six-digit code that changes every 30 seconds, on their phone or in any browser, no app needed. With the friend lock on, a block can't be ended early without that code. Your phone never shows it. An emergency unlock exists, with a wait you chose in advance, so a real emergency isn't a disaster and "just five minutes" isn't worth the ask.

ONE TAP FOR REAL LIFE Family dinner. Study session. Work sprint. Bedtime. Gym. Date night. Exam week. Recipes for the situations you actually have, right on Home. Or set a schedule and it starts on its own every night.

SOS FOR THE URGE When the pull hits, tap SOS. Reset asks what you're escaping (bored, stressed, tired, lonely, avoiding something), gives you a small thing to do for a few minutes, then checks whether the pull dropped. It learns which things work for you. Already opened the app? Log the slip. A relapse is data, not a verdict.

BOREDOM GYM Twenty-two short exercises for sitting with nothing, each with the study behind it. Thirty seconds first. Then a minute. Then longer. Plus 55 small, finishable things to do instead of scrolling.

HONEST INSIGHTS Time blocked, day by day. Clean days and time away from your blocked apps, counted by Screen Time on your phone. App by app, this week against last. Momentum that never resets to zero.

ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A countdown in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen while a block runs, plus two Home Screen widgets.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No analytics, ads or subscription. Reset never sees which apps you use; Apple's Screen Time hands it only opaque tokens. Export or delete everything whenever you like.

ABOUT THE NAME "Dopamine detox" is what people search for. Reset uses the name and skips the myth: there's no dopamine score, because there's no such thing. What it trains is behaviour: noticing the reach, tolerating the gap, doing something else.

Reset is a behaviour-change tool, not medical advice. Free, with no in-app purchases.