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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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
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
Schedules aren’t working as expected
I have schedules setup to block from 06:00 to 18:00 and then from 23:00 until 05:00. So should be able to look at my apps in the period 18:00 to 23:00 without having to go get the card. This isn’t currently working.
Love it!
It’s the best!
Love it but needs remove friend feature
Yeah love this app but I need to remove a friend because pain yeah please add that feature
Perfect for an adhd brain
I was so sick of knowing I had an addiction to my phone and the internet, I could hear my inner voice yelling to stop as I was sucked into scrolling or picking up my phone first thing in the morning. I’d wish that my phone could just text/make calls, play music/books, take photos and hive directions but without the access to anything else. No scrolling, no constant news cycle, no dopamining in the worst way. I would loose hours and hours to it . I now have my phone set up to only allow the things I actually want access to and I can feel my brain coming back into its creative power. This is such a helpful tool, it is pricey but I choose to think of it as a one time purchase medicine to help my brain.
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Good solution, buggy execution
The app blocker search functionality constantly crashes. It takes 5 minutes to add 10 app to the blocked approved list. Constantly crashing then restarting the app and navigating to same spot
The scheduled time feature stops working randomly
I think this my main problem with the app. Other than that it’s great.
Sometimes in the morning it doesn’t work
It is a great app. It forces me to put down my phone and work but in the mornings is when I struggle with my phone the most and so does the app. If I schedule beforehand to block my phone in the morning I would wake up to all my apps even tho the app itself says they’re blocked.
Schedules have a mind of their own
To elaborate on the title. The schedules feel like they’re just for show. Several times I’ve been locked out of apps when I shouldn’t have been. Other times I’m locked out of the wrong mode. Once I was even locked out of an app that was on zero of my block out modes. I have deleted this app several times and ultimately end up going back only bc it’s the only way I can decrease screen time. I wish they’d work out the bugs. Also!! make it so I don’t have to go through the stupid unskippable set up dramatization of how much the app will help me every time I need to delete and redownload bc of bugs, especially since I have to log in first. Like you already know I have an account. Leave me alone
Update!! Request for the developers: can there be a 30 second warning notification before your break is about to end. Let me know I need to wrap it up before the blackout happens
Update!! Request for the developers: can there be a 30 second warning notification before your break is about to end. Let me know I need to wrap it up before the blackout happens
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Good app, one knit pick
I feel like the app should allow cross device access, like one device is in focus mode, and the other device can be in focus mode as well, without the need for an nfc. The manual blocking on the ipad does not have the same physical boundary to unblock, and serves more as an act of discipline. If this change was possible, please make it an option. Thank you for your product.
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