Brink vs TimeLoop

Brink is an app blocker for iPhone that puts a timer on the apps you doomscroll. Choose the apps (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Reddit, whatever eats your evenings), set how long you're allowed in, and press Start. When time's up, an alarm goes off and those apps lock for a cooldown you picked. Then they come back on their own. It's for people who open a feed "for five minutes" and look up an hour later, and for anyone who finds Screen Time's app limits too easy to wave away. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps and websites to limit. Only those are blocked: never your whole phone, a whole category, or your messages. 2. Set your allowance, say 20 minutes, and your cooldown, say 30. 3. Press Start, in the app or from the widget, Control Center or Shortcuts. The countdown runs on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. 4. At zero an alarm goes off, with a different line every time, and the apps lock. 5. When the cooldown ends, they unlock by themselves. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR • Evening and bedtime scrolling: one round of Reels, then the phone goes quiet • Short-video loops: TikTok, Reels and Shorts with a hard stop • Work and study: a block that starts itself when Work Focus turns on • Breaking the reflex: a daily open limit turns every visit into a decision FREE, FOR REAL One block with up to three apps, both timers, the alarm, daily open limits, the widget and today's screen time counter. No time limit, no trial clock, no account. Trends is free for your first week. BRINK PRO • Strict Mode: no early exit from anywhere, and no deleting apps to get around it • Schedules: a block starts itself every day, or when Sleep or Work Focus turns on • No app limit, and more than one block, for evenings, mornings and work • Trends, streaks and a Sunday recap • One emergency unlock a week, for the night it really matters Yearly with a free trial, or pay once for lifetime. No weekly subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up. You choose apps in Apple's own Screen Time picker, so Brink never learns which apps you picked or what you do in them. Your screen time is drawn by Apple and never leaves your phone. QUESTIONS How is Brink different from Screen Time's app limits? When a Screen Time limit runs out, "Ignore Limit" is usually one tap away. Brink starts when you press Start, sounds an alarm when time is up, and keeps the apps locked for the whole cooldown. On a free block you can still leave early with "Let me in"; Strict Mode in Brink Pro takes that away. Does Brink block my whole phone? No. Only the apps and websites you picked. Calls, messages and everything else keep working. Is Brink free? Yes. One block with up to three apps and both timers is free, with no time limit. Brink Pro adds Strict Mode, schedules, more apps and blocks, and Trends. Can I get around it? A determined you can get around any blocker, this one included. Brink is built to break the autopilot reach for your phone, not to be a jail. If you want no way out, turn on Strict Mode. What does it need? An iPhone with iOS 17 or later and Screen Time access, which iOS asks you for once. No account. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://brink.evatech.app/privacy

Your day, figured out. Tell TimeLoop what you need to do, and it plans it around what cannot move, changes the day when it changes and knows the way. IT PLANS • Say it or type it, in your own words and your own language: "Doctor Thursday at 14:40, gym three times, six hours of study by Friday." • Fixed events stay. Everything else finds its time, the trip there included. • Errands before an appointment go in the shortest order, with opening hours checked. • What has no time yet waits on your task list. No time said, none invented. IT ADAPTS • Running late? One sentence or one tap, and the rest of the day moves with you. Undo is always there. • One tap tells the others you are late. • Move the dentist to Friday, cancel the gym. Nothing changes until you confirm it. TALK TO IT • Hey Siri, talk to TimeLoop: it listens, shows what it made and answers out loud. A change is kept only after your yes. • Ask Siri what is next, on a locked iPhone too. • In CarPlay, talk to TimeLoop while you drive (Pro). IT KNOWS THE WAY • When to leave, from where you are, with the usual traffic counted in, and the weather at the place. • In CarPlay, when to leave and what is next wait beside the map. • Ask about opening hours or parking on any event. The answer keeps its sources. AT A GLANCE • One calm timeline with what is next and how much of the day is free. Week and month show how full each day is. • A morning brief, widgets, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. • On Apple Watch: today, what is on now and your focus. • A focus timer with calm sounds that keep playing when the screen locks. GOALS AND TASKS • Gym three times a week gets real slots, and you are told honestly when it will not fit. • A task can be just a name, or hold a list of its own. HOW YOU FEEL • One quiet question a day: how are you feeling? TimeLoop offers a lighter day when you need one. • Optional: an answer suggested from last night's sleep and recovery in Apple Health. It is read on your iPhone only, never sent anywhere, and nothing is written to Health. • Rhythm, if you want it: your cycle, a training block or shifts as one loop across your days. Off until you turn it on. Kept encrypted with your account. WITH YOUR PEOPLE • Circles for family, friends or a team. One link and they are in. • See when everyone is free, propose a time, answer yes, maybe or no. • Shared lists: anyone adds, anyone checks off. • Others see when you are busy, never more than you choose. WORKS WITH WHAT YOU USE • Two-way sync with iCloud, Google and Outlook calendars, and with iCloud Reminders. • One plan on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and the web, in 35 languages. • No account needed to start. Sign in with Apple or Google to use more than one device. FREE AND PRO Free: the timeline, adding and changing things by hand, tasks and shared lists, week and month, the day's weather where you are, focus, calendar sync, one goal and one circle of your own. TimeLoop Pro does the work for you: planning from what you say or type, talking to it (in CarPlay too), when to leave and the weather at the place, looking things up, the morning brief, telling the others, the sleep suggestion, all focus sounds, and more goals and circles. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly. The yearly plan starts with a free week for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. It renews by itself unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings at any time. Without Pro everything in your plan stays. PRIVACY No ads and no tracking. You can delete your account and everything in it from the app at any time. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trytimeloop.com/privacy.html