Hardstop vs AppBlocker

Start a hard stop and your apps are shut until the time is up. Not paused. Not until you change your mind. Until it is up. Most blockers can be undone in two taps: edit the schedule, or delete it. Hardstop cannot. While a block runs, the rules that define it are frozen the schedule cannot be edited to end early, disabled or deleted, and blocked apps cannot be removed from the list. Pay once. No subscription, no account, no data collected. Everything runs on your iPhone. Block now, or set hours that repeat Tap once and pick a length: fifteen minutes, an hour, three hours. The apps you chose are shut for that long, with no schedule to build first. Make it a hard stop and there is no way out at all no wait, no pass, no cancel button. Schedules do the hours you already know about: a start time, an end time, and the days it repeats. Blocking continues whether or not Hardstop is running, and survives restarting your iPhone. Three ways in, and each one costs more Outside a hard stop you can ask to be let into a blocked app. Asking starts a wait rather than opening it, and when the wait is over you have to come back and ask again. That second, deliberate step is the point. Every pass after the first in the same block costs more: thirty seconds becomes ninety, then three minutes. And you only get three per block. The first slip of an afternoon stays cheap. The fourth is not offered. A pass is temporary too. After sixteen minutes the block returns on its own, without you having to remember to put it back. A record of what actually happened When a block ends, Hardstop writes down whether you saw it through or asked your way in, and how many times. Not screen time statistics a record of you against your own rules. It never leaves your iPhone. Strict mode With strict mode on, every block behaves like a hard stop, and strict mode cannot be switched off while one is running. Deleting Hardstop would still lift a block. No app on iOS can prevent that, and this one will not claim otherwise. What it uses Hardstop blocks apps through Apple's Screen Time framework, which runs entirely on your device. It asks for access for you, as an adult managing your own iPhone. It is not a parental-controls app: it cannot see, manage or report on another person's device. Free and unlocked Blocking is never the thing you pay for. The free version blocks as many apps and categories as you like, on one schedule, with hard stops and the record included. The unlock is a single purchase adding unlimited schedules, strict mode, and a wait length of your choosing. It is not a subscription. Nothing renews. Privacy Hardstop has no account, no server and no analytics. Your schedules and the apps you block never leave your iPhone, because there is nowhere for them to go.

PEAK turns a focus session into a commitment your phone helps you defend. Pick what distracts you. Pick how long you want to work. Then lock in. For the length of the session PEAK uses Apple's Screen Time to shield the apps and websites you chose, so the decision to focus gets made once instead of every ninety seconds. LOCK THEM OUT Choose apps, categories and websites through Apple's own picker. PEAK never learns which ones you picked. Screen Time hands the app an opaque token and nothing else. STRICT MODE Strict mode holds the session closed. Quitting early takes a deliberate confirmation rather than a reflex tap, so a dull moment does not cost you the block. PRESETS THAT FIT THE WORK SPRINT runs 25 minutes on and 5 off. DEEP WORK runs 50 and 10. LOCK IN runs 90 and 15. Build your own when none of those match the task. A DAILY TARGET Set a target in minutes and watch the day fill in. Progress keeps your completed sessions, your streak and an honest record of where the hours went. ROUTINES Schedule recurring sessions by weekday and time. The morning block starts itself. HOLD TO COMMIT Starting a session takes a press and hold rather than a tap. Small friction, deliberately placed. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Sessions, presets and routines stay on your device. There is no account, no login and no cloud sync, and your Screen Time selection never leaves your phone. PEAK PRO PEAK is a subscription app. Full access needs PEAK Pro, an auto-renewing subscription available as a weekly or a yearly plan. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://peak-landing.avilletardpiano.workers.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://peak-landing.avilletardpiano.workers.dev/terms