Domain vs Self

Domain keeps distracting apps blocked until you earn access with a real exercise. Instead of opening an app on impulse, complete a short camera-verified challenge and turn the urge to scroll into movement. HOW DOMAIN WORKS 1. Choose the apps, categories, and websites you want to block. 2. When you want access, Domain randomly chooses an exercise from the ones you enabled. 3. Complete the challenge to earn 15 minutes, then unlock when you are ready. NINE WAYS TO EARN ACCESS Choose from push-ups, diamond push-ups, plank, squats, squat hold, jumping jacks, lunges, sit-ups, and shadow boxing. Three fitness levels adjust challenge targets, and you decide which exercises can appear. BANK YOUR SCREEN TIME Every completed challenge earns 15 minutes. Save up to 60 minutes in your time bank, then redeem a 5, 15, or 30-minute pass when you actually want to use it. A limited five-minute emergency release is available once per day when you truly need immediate access. PRIVATE, CAMERA-VERIFIED MOVEMENT Domain uses Apple's on-device Vision technology to follow your movement. Camera frames and body landmarks are not saved. Your exercise stays on your device. MORE THAN AN APP BLOCKER - Build streaks, earn XP, level up, and review your progress - Start Focus Sessions when you want a timed period of deeper concentration - Create recurring schedules for work, study, sleep, or any routine - Block selected apps, entire categories, and distracting websites - Adjust your eligible exercises and fitness level at any time Domain adds a deliberate physical step between an impulse and an app. Move first, unlock intentionally, and make screen time something you choose—not something that chooses you. Exercise within your ability and stop if you feel pain or discomfort.

Sometimes a person is suddenly alone. The relationship ends, the family dissolves, the friend moves, the old life goes quiet. Or they have been alone a long time and are learning that solitude is a skill the culture didn't teach them. Either way, when they reach for their phone in a hard hour, they want one steady voice. Not a coach, not a therapist, not another self-help framework. Someone who has been there. This is that. Self-Reliance Tips is a hundred small observations from someone who has been in a hard hour and made it through. Each one opens with "You might..." or "Consider..." or "Some people find..." The choice always lives with you. There is no card that begins "You should." Three cards wait face-down each day. Tap as many as you want. The cards you reveal stay in your Collection forever, so you can come back to them on a different hard hour. There is no streak. No notification asking you to be consistent. No progress meter measuring whether you "showed up." What you'll find: A hundred cards across the small spectrum of a real life: nervous-system regulation, micro-actions, self-compassion, solitude as a skill, connection without performance, grief, identity, and witness-staying. Cards on subjects with documented mechanisms (slow exhale, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, self-compassion break, facial-feedback, weak-tie research) link to authoritative sources for the curious: Cleveland Clinic, APA, Healthline, self-compassion.org, Greater Good Berkeley, Harvard Health. Drew's note in Settings names what he was going through when he built this app. Brutal honesty over performance. What you won't find: No subscription. No streaks. No ads. No data collection. No advice voice. No "you should." No promise that things will be fine. If the hour you are in is bigger than this app, the resources at the bottom of Settings are real people on the other end: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, Veterans Crisis Line, NAMI HelpLine, SAMHSA, RAINN, plus three therapist finders that filter by insurance and sliding-scale options. You are allowed to call them even if you are not sure it is bad enough. Self-Reliance Tips is not therapy. It is not a substitute for professional care. It is steady company. For the person who has heard enough fix-it speak. For the four-in-the-morning hour. For the days you are learning, slowly, how to be alone with yourself in a way that holds.