drft vs Paddle Past

drft is for the ten minutes before a decision you would regret. Open it when the urge hits. drft does not lecture you, score you, or ask how you are feeling on a scale of one to ten. It tells you what has actually happened the last time you were here. "This is the 10th time. You got through it 6 of those times. What held most often: walking. It usually passed in about 21 minutes." That sentence is the whole product. It is not advice, and it is not encouragement. It is your own record, handed back at the moment it is useful. WHAT YOU CAN CHANGE Gambling, alcohol, nicotine, pornography, and social media. You can also name something drft does not list. Setup asks eight questions: one in your own words, seven you tap. They are drawn from the screening literature for the behaviour you actually picked, so the questions about nicotine are about nicotine. Three minutes, and the rest of the app is built from your answers. WHAT IT DOES Interrupt. One tap when the pull starts. drft puts something between the urge and the action: a timed walk, a breathing reset, a call to someone you trust. It logs what you chose and whether it held, so next time it can lead with the one that works for you. Remember. Every urge, action and outcome becomes part of a record only you can see. Over time drft can tell you which trigger keeps coming up, which hour of which day is hardest, and which intervention has the best record for you specifically. Your plan. A short daily structure built from your own history rather than a template. If drft does not know enough yet, the plan is shorter. It does not pad. Coach. A conversation that starts from your record rather than from nothing. It quotes your real numbers. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO drft will not tell you that you are strong, or that you have got this, or that your future self is proud of you. It has no way to know any of that. It will not draw a pattern from three events. Every insight has a threshold, and below it drft shows nothing rather than something it cannot stand behind. It will not punish a slip. Your total clean days bank across setbacks and never reset to zero, because a lapse is information, not an identity. There are no streaks to protect. A streak turns a bad night into a reason to stop opening the app, which is exactly when you need it. It does not sell your data, share it, or use advertising SDKs. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS drft is not a therapist, not a doctor and not an emergency service. It offers no diagnosis and no treatment. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 in the US. One thing worth saying plainly: if you drink heavily every day, stopping suddenly can be dangerous. That is a conversation for a doctor before it is a conversation for an app, and drft will tell you so. Free, with no subscription.

Paddle Past is a guided, science-backed sequence to help you paddle past urges. No account, no tracking. SCIENCE-BACKED EXERCISES Each exercise comes from published research on cravings. - Remove distractions. Use Apple’s Screen Time to put your apps out of reach for 5 minutes to 4 hours. - Settle the body. A minute of paced breathing, four seconds in and six out. - Crowd out the picture. Three minutes of a visual puzzle. Urges tend to arrive as pictures of what you want, and a visual task occupies the same mental space. - Loosen the link. Under two minutes of noticing where the urge sits in your body and staying with it. The aim is a gap between having an urge and acting on it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no notifications, no advertising identifier, no analytics, crash reporting, or usage telemetry. Once unlocked, sessions work offline. There is no Paddle Past server, so we never receive your data. Full details: https://paddlepast.com/privacy REACH FOR IT THE MOMENT BEFORE YOU ACT Open Paddle Past when: - You are pouring the drink you said you would skip. - Stepping outside for a cigarette. - Reaching for the vape without deciding to. - At the fridge and not hungry. - Unlocking your phone again. - Looking at the checkout, again. - Placing the bet you called your last. WHAT IT IS NOT Paddle Past is not treatment, a recovery program, or a promise that you will quit. It is a tool for acute episodes. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 in the United States. For treatment referrals, contact the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357. Your first three sessions are free, then a one-time purchase unlocks it for good. If the cost is a barrier, email support@paddlepast.com and we'll help.