Ebbwell vs Bedside

Ebbwell helps you quit drinking, smoking, or another habit with short daily lessons, honest check-ins, and AI feedback on what you write — not just a day counter. A DAILY RECOVERY PATH • One 365-lesson programme in four consecutive stages: Days 1–21, 22–90, 91–180, and 181–365 • Each lesson pairs a short reading with a reflection and a practical exercise • Later stages unlock as you progress • The first 7 lessons of the introductory course are free. Lesson 8 onward requires Ebbwell Pro. CHECK-IN AND AI FEEDBACK • Log your mood, craving intensity, emotions, and how you responded in one check-in • Write what happened and get AI feedback on your reflections and craving logs • Feedback adapts to your habit and progress, and replies in the language you write in WHEN AN URGE HITS • Guardian: wait 10 minutes, call a trusted contact, or send a prepared message • Guided breathing with calming soundscapes and optional voice guidance • Craving and trigger logging to help you spot patterns TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • A live streak for each habit — alcohol, smoking, and more • Milestones that celebrate your progress • Estimates of money saved and time reclaimed, plus savings goals • Journey timeline and stats for your check-ins and milestones • Home Screen widget for your primary habit UNDERSTAND YOUR RECOVERY • An educational timeline of changes many people notice after quitting — everyone's experience is different • Learn how cravings, dopamine, and habit loops work BUILT FOR EVERY DAY • Calm light and dark themes • Support for larger text sizes • Available in 34 languages YOUR DATA AI features require an internet connection. Your submitted text and relevant habit, streak, and craving context are sent to our servers and AI service providers to generate feedback. Our servers also store device, entitlement, and usage records. See our Privacy Policy for details. EBBWELL PRO Ebbwell Pro unlocks lesson 8 onward and removes the monthly AI feedback limit. Choose a monthly subscription, an annual subscription (new subscribers get a 7-day free trial), or a one-time lifetime purchase. Ebbwell is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you may be at risk of severe withdrawal, talk to a doctor before you stop. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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.