NoStim vs Arc Lock

NoStim blocks the parts of your apps that pull you back, and keeps the parts that are about people. Scroll free. Open Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, Pinterest or Twitch inside NoStim with the addictive parts taken out: no Reels, no endless feed, no Shorts. You choose what's hidden on each one. Log in once and stay logged in. Posts your friends send you still open. Chats. Read and answer your Instagram and Reddit messages without going near the feed. Post. Go straight to writing a post on X, Reddit or YouTube, with no feed on the way. Real blocking. Apple's own Screen Time shields on the apps you pick, with limits that mean something: opens per day, minutes per open, opening odds if you want the dice to decide, locked hours, and a waiting room that offers you something else to do instead of a lecture. Modes and schedules. Lock things down for studying, the gym or winding down at night, by hand or on a schedule that starts and ends by itself. Driving Mode. It starts when your iPhone's Driving Focus turns on and frees the apps you need in the car, like Maps, Messages and music. No lock ever holds it back. A ratchet, not a cage. Making NoStim stricter is instant. Making it looser waits out a delay you chose ahead of time. Lock your settings for a weekend, a week, or with no end date at all, and if you want out early, the price is one you set when you were thinking clearly. Kind where it counts. Comfort Mode for chronic illness bad days, with no guilt and no questions. Vacation mode you book a day ahead. Streaks that measure commitment, not abstinence: using your whole budget still counts as a day held. Together. An optional circle of a few people who care, sharing only your streak and your stumbles, person to person through your own iCloud. A partner lock where someone you trust holds the key. YouTube inside NoStim keeps playing when you leave the app or lock your phone, and it can play in picture in picture. The blocker is free, forever. No ads and no account. NoStim Pro adds Circles, partner unlock codes, your full history and extra themes. Nothing that blocks is ever behind the paywall. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sashalawrence13.github.io/NoStim/privacy.html

Companies fight for every second of your time to keep you distracted. Taking control of your screen time should be a human right, not something locked behind a paywall. Arc Lock blocks the apps and websites that eat your day, and once a block starts, it stays on. Every feature is free for everyone: no subscription, no account, no ads, no in-app purchases. SCHEDULES Pick apps, app categories and websites, choose the hours and days, and they lock on their own. Overnight windows like 11 PM – 7 AM work too (up to 22 hours). DAILY LIMITS Allow yourself a set time each day, from 5 minutes to 8 hours. See exactly how many minutes are used and left. When the time is used up, those apps lock until the limit resets: at midnight, or at the time you pick (say 4:00 AM, for late nights). A heads-up comes 5 minutes before. TIME-OUTS Not a full block, a pause. After a stretch of use, the apps take a short break, then open again. For example: after 20 minutes of short videos, a 10-minute break. It repeats all day and starts fresh at its reset time. BLOCK NOW Lock distractions right away, from 15 minutes to 12 hours. The Block now button is always one tap away. PLACES Pick one or more places on the map, like the library, your school or the gym, and the apps lock when you arrive. Each place block ends when you leave, or after a set time, whichever you choose, and starts only on the days you pick. Location access is asked for only when you set up a place block, and Arc Lock never sends your location anywhere. STRICT LOCK Every block can have Strict lock, and it's on by default. While a strict block runs: • it can't be stopped, loosened or deleted in Arc Lock • the date and time can't be changed by hand • the block screen has a single button: Close Daily limits and time-outs are locked in until they reset: you can make one stricter once a day, but looser settings only start at its next reset. Want a gentler block? Switch Strict lock off for that block, and you can stop it whenever you like. Switching Strict lock off for the whole app works right away: a block that's running or counting stays strict only until its own reset, or until it ends. DELETION PROTECTION On by default: no app can be deleted from your iPhone, Arc Lock included. Switching it off waits only until your strict blocks reset or end. LOCK-IN Freeze every rule for 1 to 30 days, even between blocks: no loosening, no deleting rules, no deleting apps. Changes you queued before it wait until it ends. WEBSITES BY ADDRESS Type a site like youtube.com and it's blocked in Safari and every other browser, in schedules, daily limits, time-outs and Block now. APPLE'S OWN LOOK Native lists and a compact Liquid Glass tab bar: Home, Blocks and Settings. Names are optional: a block without one is shown by its first app. Five themes (Navy, Graphite, Forest, Plum and Paper), each with a matching app icon. The phone-and-lock mark in the app closes while something is blocked. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Arc Lock works through Apple's Screen Time. Apple keeps your activity on your iPhone; Arc Lock never learns which apps you use and sends nothing anywhere. No account, no analytics, no tracking. OPEN SOURCE The complete source code is on GitHub under the MIT license: github.com/WeldingArc/arc-lock