Super buggy
Amazing app in concept. It worked for a while but then became super buggy and I troubleshoot, fix it, then there’s another bug
Has a mind of its own
I love the concept and the device has been extremely successful in keeping me off social media. But the schedule I set up works as expected only some of the time. Sometimes it will put my phone into focus mode randomly in the middle of the day. Sometimes it will not be in focus mode during a scheduled focus session. If these glitches were worked out, it would be fantastic.
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Bloom
I love my bloom card. I use it everyday, and have for over a year. It really helps me stay off my phone, specifically the doom scrolling. I don’t think it’s a perfect solution for everyone, I’m sure there are sneaky ways to get around it, but for me, it works great. I also love that I own the card. No subscription service required. Thanks bloom!!!
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Does not work consistently
It sometimes works and often doesn’t. I’ve contacted them for help and their support was not helpful. I regret giving them my money.
Good app, blocking process needs improvement
The concept, look, feel and portability of the item are excellent. It is relatively cheap being a metal card with an NFC tag. Given the customisable settings are preset prior to blocking, the tapping of the card should itself begin the block.
Edit: Remote blocking (without card) fixed the incentive issue.
Edit: Remote blocking (without card) fixed the incentive issue.
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Bugs affect function
Very effective when the blocks are active, however they regularly fail to trigger, making the app regularly useless.
No longer works
I absolutely love the Bloom app at first, but it has stopped working and I’m unable to get onto the tech team. I am assuming that this business has closed.
Too buggy
Loved the app and how it helped me monitor and limit my time on social media. However, I found it too buggy to continue using. Every time my phone OS updated the schedules would stop working—either blocking when they shouldn’t (in which case there were no options to fix the schedule while blocking was on) or not blocking during a set schedule (in which case I would check the schedules and confirm that they were set correctly and the app just wasn’t working properly. Each time I had to delete and reinstall the app and go through an EXTREMELY tedious and un-skippable onboarding questionnaire. I reached out to support and they basically confirmed that I would have to continue periodically reinstalling the app until the end of time. To this I say no thank you! Deleted and switched to another solution.
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Great overall, but could use time limits
The schedule function is great for keeping me off my phone when I wake up and before I go to sleep, but I think app time limits would also be super useful. Apple’s time limits are too easy to override so I think Bloom’s physical card would be great for this. Please let me know if this is something you’ll be working on adding! :)
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Excellent
Get your time back. Using the bloom card and app is so effective at stopping me from wasting my time on my phone whilst still being able to use it for calls or whatnot. I was skeptical of this at first but I really love it. The card is high quality and the app is intuitive and easy to use.
My only complaint is sometimes with the scheduling it won’t actually block the apps. So it will say Bloom is on but I can still access blocked apps. This resolves itself usually by closing and re-opening the Bloom app. Only happens a couple times, so does not detract from the app overall.
If you want to gain some control over your time, this is definitely for you!
My only complaint is sometimes with the scheduling it won’t actually block the apps. So it will say Bloom is on but I can still access blocked apps. This resolves itself usually by closing and re-opening the Bloom app. Only happens a couple times, so does not detract from the app overall.
If you want to gain some control over your time, this is definitely for you!
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Crashes
App picker crazy
Prevents bedtime doomscrolling
Our phones are filled with apps engineered to get you to engage with them as much as possible. Bloom lets you block these apps on a daily schedule. I use it to block all nonessential apps every night before bed and my sleep has improved significantly since. Although unblocking your phone is easy (all you need to do is scan the card or use a monthly emergency escape), the extra friction required to open up a distracting app makes it more tempting to put down the phone and go to sleep instead.
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Bring back the fun block screens
This app is amazing! It genuinely helps in so many ways. I just miss the fun app- lock screens. Bring them back!
Please fix the schedules!
This card has been so useful but the app does a really bad job of following my schedules. At this point I’m just along for the ride because I don’t know if the schedules I set will kick in or not.
Ignorance is Bliss
This only works as long as you’re unaware that you can just turn it off from screen time settings at any time. Now that I know that, this basically feels like a scam
Really Good
Just got this app and it is actually really good. I’m at a five day streak. Really good and no more doomscrolling!
Great app in general too.
Love it!
Great app in general too.
Love it!
I love it…but locks all the time
I love it! It’s a great idea and app. But sometimes it will lock my apps (all of them) all day which is outset of the schedule I set. I need some apps for work and I sometimes can’t access my card. If we could fix the random constant blocking apps bug that would make this app perfection!
Complete Life Transformstion
When I say the bloom card has genuinely changed the way I live my everyday life, I am not exaggerating. I now have control over my time, which was almost impossible to get 100% control of before I had the bloom card. With this newly added time and focus, I can actually commit to every single little thing I say I am going to do. I have had experience with other social media blockers in the past and none of them worked. There was always a very simple way to bypass all of them, and when your brain is addicted to something, you are destined to find that easy way out. With the bloom card, you can set up systems that make the app impossible to bypass or even delete which I’ve never seen in a screen time blocker before. To anyone who wants any sort of success in this world, I recommend this product to you. Buy the bloom card, take back your time by force, and by default ➡️ you take back your life.
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IT WORKS!!!
I’m not normally someone who writes reviews, but this deserved my praise. I’m a content creator, so I’m naturally online quite a bit, but my screen time had gotten out of hand. This is a great way to gain some hours of your life back, and well worth the investment of $35 and change. Get a bloom!
Doesn’t work
I do not have instagram selected as an approved app, but it’s not blocked. I also do not like how I have to tap the bloom to lock the phone. Makes sense to unlock but not to lock
