Spool vs Spark Break

Less scrolling, more living. Spool blocks doomscrolling, brainrot, and screen addiction at the source — by making you justify yourself before you scroll. Most screen time blockers don't work because they treat phone addiction like a discipline problem. It's not. It's a habit loop your brain is stuck in — a dopamine cycle reinforced every time you reach for your phone without thinking. Spool interrupts the cycle. Before any blocked app opens, you have to state your case to our AI. Use the same excuse too many times and Spool locks you out automatically. Built on cognitive behavioral techniques and behavioral research on attention and habit formation. WHY YOU'LL LOVE SPOOL - Understand your hidden triggers with daily AI insights - Track your phone addiction patterns over time - Discover when you reach for apps most (and why) - Instant app and website blocking that actually works - Schedule blocking windows for your weak hours - Lock in during deep work with custom focus sessions - Reflect on every excuse you've made and spot the loops - CBT-inspired techniques to break the dopamine cycle - Detox from doomscrolling, brainrot, and mindless scroll WHO IT'S FOR Spool is for anyone struggling with phone addiction, doomscrolling, or losing hours to TikTok, Instagram, Reels, YouTube Shorts, or X. Built for people who've tried Screen Time, willpower, and other app blockers — and want something that actually changes the habit, not just the limit. WHAT MAKES SPOOL DIFFERENT Other apps just block. Spool teaches you about yourself. Every excuse you make becomes data. Every reflection makes you more aware. Every blocked attempt strengthens the new habit. Reclaim your focus. Build a more intentional relationship with your phone. ————————————— Spool Full Access — Weekly Length: 1 week, auto-renewing Price: $4.99 USD / week Spool Full Access — Yearly Length: 1 year, auto-renewing Price: $44.99 USD / year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thespoolapp.com/#/privacy

Most people don't lose hours to the feed because they're weak. They lose them because nothing has ever stood between the thought and the thumb. Spark Break puts one rep there. Ten squats, five slow exhales, or one honest sentence about what you're actually avoiding. Do it and the screen opens. Do it six times a day and you're not just scrolling less — you're stronger, calmer, and harder to distract. That's the whole system. THREE ACTIONS, UNDER SIXTY SECONDS EACH Move — ten squats, a few times an hour. Not a workout. Just meaningfully less sitting than the scroll would have cost you, confirmed by motion and step data. Breathe — five slow exhales, right at the moment you're most wound up, before the anxious spiral finishes its sentence. Not meditation. Just enough of a pause that the feeling passes instead of feeding itself. Focus — one sentence, typed or spoken, about the thing you're avoiding. Say it often enough and it stops being avoidable. That's repetition doing the job willpower usually fails at. A TAPER, NOT A CLIFF Week one measures. No limit at all — Spark Break learns your real baseline from your real days while you live normally. Every week after, your daily target steps down ten percent. Never below the number you chose yourself: ninety, sixty, or forty-five minutes. If a week goes badly, the plan holds instead of pushing. Roughly every fifty minutes on a protected app, the screen locks until one action is done. A few skips a day are built in, for when you genuinely can't stop. NO RED ZEROS Break a streak and Spark Break says "Day 1 again. Your best was 14." That's the entire response. No failure screens, no red numbers, no notification chasing you down about what you lost. Shame is what sends people back to the feed. This app is built to not do that. WHAT HAPPENS ON YOUR IPHONE STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE Apple seals Screen Time data inside the app on your device. The apps you protect are stored as opaque tokens even we cannot read. Per-app usage is rendered by Apple's own view and never transmitted. Anything you type stays local. Motion readings confirm an action, then are discarded. No account is required to use Spark Break. There is no sign-up, no email address, and nothing to look you up by. WHAT SPARK BREAK WON'T DO Calls, Messages, Maps, banking and health apps can never be shielded. Ever. And Spark Break can't protect itself from you — the app picker blocks that on purpose. Spark Break needs Screen Time permission to know when you're deep in a session. Motion and Fitness permission is optional; decline it and movement actions are swapped for breathing ones. Take the time back.