Wingman Focus vs Takeback

Wingman is an AI Screen Time Copilot that lives inside iMessage. Wingman combines your app and web usage with real context — your calendar, your to-dos, the time of day — and protects your focus. MORNING — it auto-blocks distractions around your important events and sets your usage limits for the day. THROUGHOUT THE DAY — it monitors and intervenes. Scrolling TikTok fifteen minutes before your physics final? Instant block. EVENING — you take the controls: start a task-locked focus session, ask for a break, or negotiate your limits. HOW IT WORKS
 Pick the apps, categories, and sites that are distracting. For each one, customize how strict Wingman should be: a simple on-device nudge, active monitoring with check-ins, a hard daily limit, a dynamic limit that flexes with your day, or full lockdown. MONITORING AND INTERVENTIONS
 Wingman watches your usage in real time and steps in when you drift. Interventions aren't generic reminders. They factor in the time of day, your calendar, your to-dos, and the goals you've shared. FOCUS SESSIONS
 Solo Focus: block your chosen apps and sites for a set duration. Simple and unlimited.
 Wingman Focus: block until the task is actually done. You tell Wingman what you're working on, distractions lock, and they stay locked until you submit proof of work. No timer to wait out. PLAN DAY
 Connect your calendar, and Wingman builds the day's blocking schedule automatically, locking down during lectures, labs, and study blocks, and fitting time for your fun apps around the things that matter. Have a fixed weekly schedule? Set a block once, mark it recurring, and it applies every time. DYNAMIC LIMITS
 Instead of a flat limit, Wingman allocates a daily budget for each of your fun apps based on how much slack your day actually has. Light day, more fuel. Exam week, less. HARDCORE AND BREAK NEGOTIATION
 Your worst distractions stay locked 24/7. Need a break from a locked app? Make your case. Wingman weighs your reason against the time, your calendar, and your to-dos, then decides: approve it outright, approve it after a short focus session, hold it until a cooldown ends, or decline. A snack run at noon gets a different answer than "lunch break" at 4 a.m. SCREEN TIME REPORT
 Get a score, trends over time, and an AI breakdown of where your hours went and what to change. IPHONE AND MAC, ONE ACCOUNT
 Start a session on your phone and your Mac follows. Blocks, focus sessions, and your plan for the day stay in sync across devices. Wingman can also reach you over iMessage with a heads-up when it matters. PRIVACY
 Your usage data lives on your device. Before anything reaches Wingman's AI, Screen Time data is summarized and stripped of identifying details. We don't sell your data. Full policy at wingmanfocus.org/privacy. FREE VS. WINGMAN ULTRA
 Free includes on-device nudges, unlimited Solo Focus, five Wingman Focus sessions per week, the full Screen Time Report, and iPhone + Mac sync.
Wingman Ultra adds Fuel, Hardcore blocking with break negotiation, Plan Day, high-frequency monitoring, and unlimited Wingman Focus sessions. Wingman Ultra is $12.99/month or $99.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://wingmanfocus.org/privacy
Terms of Use: https://wingmanfocus.org/terms You're the pilot. Wingman keeps you on course.

Takeback is Sarge, an AI coach who lets you into your social apps when you have a real reason and cuts off the doomscrolling. Not another app blocker. Other blockers lock everything, so you delete them by Friday. Or they're easy to skip. Sarge is tougher, but fair. A REAL REASON GETS YOU IN DMing a friend? Work? You get in. Doomscrolling? He cuts you off. He knows how long you've already scrolled today. 5 MODES. FIND YOURS. Some days your apps stay open, and the second you start doomscrolling, they lock. Some days every open costs a short wait while he tries to talk you out of it. On Blackout days, only a strong reason or a real emergency gets you in. Sarge picks your first modes, then you choose the one that works. HARDCORE WHEN YOU NEED IT On Hardcore days you say it out loud. Hold to talk, tell him why you need your apps, and he talks back. HE LEARNS YOU How you scroll. When you slip up. Then he adjusts your plan, and your daily limit steps down to your goal. YOUR ANTI-ALGORITHM Thousands of engineers. Billions of dollars. One job: keep you scrolling. Willpower can't beat that. It was never your fault. Sarge is an AI on your side against a billion-dollar feed. WANT MORE TIME? EARN IT. Go for a walk, work out, touch real grass, or hold a focus block. He checks the proof: your steps, a fresh photo, or 45 minutes with no unlocks. Pictures of pictures don't work on him. WHAT CHANGES Evenings that end in sleep, not a 2am feed. An attention span you can feel coming back. Hours that used to vanish with nothing to show for them. A phone you finally trust yourself with. WHO'S BEHIND IT Takeback is run by Stan Tatarnykov. He built games played by 80M+ people, so he knows how apps keep you hooked. Now he's on your side. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trytakeback.com/privacy