# Bedside: Sleep App Blocker — Put the phone down at bedtime

> Put the phone down at bedtime (iPhone/iPad app by zhenyu song.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bedside-sleep-app-blocker/id6763580704 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [zhenyu song](https://appshunter.io/developer/1721282851)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay and 10 more
- Released: 2026-05-30
- Data updated: 2026-08-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bedside-sleep-app-blocker/id6763580704/reviews.md

## What is Bedside?

You're not awake because you're not tired. You're awake because you're still scrolling.

Bedside blocks the apps that keep you up — during the sleep window you set, and only then.

ONE-TIME PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION.
The core works free, with ads. A single purchase removes them for good and unlocks multiple sleep windows, multiple break rules, and the guardian password. No yearly bill, no plan to cancel, no account to make. Comparable apps in this category charge a subscription every year, and their buy-once tiers cost many times this.

SLEEP WINDOW
Pick a time range and the apps that derail your night — social, video, news, games, your call. They're blocked from bedtime until morning. The phone stops calling you back.

PERIODIC BREAK
Tracks each app's continuous use independently. Fifteen straight minutes on any one of them triggers a fifteen-minute cooldown. It pulls you out of the doomscroll before the hour disappears.

LIMITED UNLOCKS, NEVER A DEAD-END
Getting in during a blocked window takes a small deliberate task first — just enough to lose interest if you're sleepy. A real emergency always gets through; it only has to wait for you to actually stop and think. The door is never welded shut, because a tool that traps you is a tool you delete.

A MORNING RECAP, NOT A VERDICT
The next morning Bedside shows how last night went compared to the one before. No score, no streak to break, no guilt notification. Just progress you can see — which is the reason people are still using it on night four.

WRITE THE BLOCK SCREEN YOURSELF
Don't like our wording? Replace the title and subtitle with your own goal. Add several lines and they rotate at random, because any single sentence stops working around the fortieth time you read it.

PRIVACY
Built on Apple's Family Controls framework and runs on-device. Your rules, app selections and usage never leave your phone — no account, no server of ours. The free version shows ads (never during sleep hours, and never the moment you pause); the one-time purchase removes them and loads no third-party SDKs at all.

For anyone who has tried deleting the app, tried promising themselves, tried the built-in screen time limit and switched it off.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bedside Pro | $9.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.5 — 2026-08-19

• The morning recap now shows how long you spent in each app yesterday — only the apps you picked, busiest first
• No score, no target. Just yesterday as it actually was
• Fixed: a break could stay up past its end time until you opened Bedside

### 1.3.3 — 2026-07-29

• The block screen's wording is now yours to write — several lines rotate at random
• System dialogs now follow the language you picked inside the app

### 1.3.2 — 2026-07-24

• Fixed the block screen sometimes showing the wrong app name
• Small refinements throughout

### 1.3.1 — 2026-07-19

• Pausing is no longer capped at 6 times a day — pause whenever you actually need to
• Small refinements throughout

### 1.3.0 — 2026-07-13

• A calmer look, everywhere — the whole app now shares the same night sky, from the home screen to the unlock tasks to the block screen
• Sleep aid and anti-addiction now sit side by side on one home screen
• Small wording and reliability fixes throughout

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