Do Instead vs Offload

Block distracting apps. Make room for what you'd rather do. You open a social app to check one thing. Half an hour later, you're still scrolling. Do Instead helps you set a boundary and bring your real tasks back into view. CHOOSE YOUR BOUNDARIES In Custom mode, give Social and Work their own apps, websites and allowed times. Add optional reminders before your windows open or close. Turning off protection or widening allowed times takes ten minutes; tightening protection applies immediately. Or start a digital detox: 14 days with a daily 30-minute window, or 21 days without regular windows. Choose your apps and review the editable website list. New programs pause Custom protection while keeping your saved setup. Track program days, streaks and milestones, then continue with your own rhythm when the program ends. TEMPORARY ACCESS WITH A PURPOSE In Custom mode, link a protected app to its English name, then say something like "Unblock Instagram for five minutes." Voice access pauses protection for that one app for 1-30 minutes, without a ten-minute wait. Switch to the app yourself; protection returns when time is up. Each session needs a fresh spoken request. Voice access is unavailable during digital detox or a protected focus session and requires microphone permission and on-device English speech recognition. You can also choose one app or website, a purpose, and 5 or 10 minutes of access. This option has a ten-minute daily budget and a ten-minute pause between sessions. Digital detox uses its own temporary-access rules. DO SOMETHING INSTEAD Bring tasks from Apple Reminders into view, or connect Todoist with Pro. Keep your next task nearby with Home and Lock Screen widgets. Start a 25-minute focus session around a task, take a guided breathing break, or try a short desk workout with a 3D coach. Complete tasks and watch your oak grow from an acorn into a tree. Quiet days don't erase its growth. With Pro and Screen Time permission, focus sessions can keep selected apps and sites blocked even during allowed windows. Completing a task does not unlock blocked apps. FREE AND PRO Free: Apple Reminders, widgets, focus timers, oak growth, breathing, desk workouts and the gentler Shortcuts route. Shortcuts needs an automation that opens Do Instead when you open a chosen app. Pro: Screen Time blocking, separate Social and Work schedules, digital detox programs, temporary access, protection during focus sessions and Todoist integration. Subscription prices and eligible trials are shown before purchase. HOW PROTECTION WORKS Blocking requires Screen Time permission. Website coverage varies by browser and iOS version. You can add domains or import a browser history export; imported domains stay on your device. Added websites may show Apple's restriction page instead of the task shield. With Pro, the Safari extension defers to Screen Time; without Pro, it uses its own website list. On iOS 26.5 and later, open your task manager from the shield through Do Instead. Earlier versions offer a notification shortcut when enabled. Screen Time permission can be revoked, and uninstalling removes protection. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No Do Instead account, ads, analytics or tracking. Task integrations connect to the services you choose. Voice recognition runs on your iPhone; audio and transcripts are not saved. Program progress and access reasons stay on your device. Privacy Policy: https://groei.dev/do-instead/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Talk for a minute. Get a tidy task list. That's the whole app. Offload is for the voice notes graveyard — the "remind me to..." you muttered into your phone at 11pm and never listened back to. Open the app, talk for as long as it takes to get the thought out, and Offload transcribes it and sorts it into tasks, ideas, thoughts, feelings and decisions before you've put the phone down. No typing, no structure required going in — just say it. WHY OFFLOAD • Talk, don't organise — ramble for a minute the way you actually think. Offload does the sorting after, not before • Get a tidy task list out — every dump comes back as a checklist you can tick off, not a wall of text you have to re-read • Prefer typing? There's a text box on the same screen — the mic is never required • Add to your calendar, Reminders, or share to any app — turn a task straight into a calendar event, send your list to Reminders, Notes, WhatsApp, wherever it needs to live next • A free monthly allowance, no account — open the app and start talking. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to • Delete everything, any time — one button in Settings wipes every recording, transcript and task off your phone for good WHAT'S INSIDE Record or type a dump. It gets transcribed, then sorted into tasks, ideas, thoughts, feelings and decisions — five plain categories, not a folder tree you have to maintain. Tasks come with their own checkbox, plus a button to add them straight to your calendar or send the whole list somewhere else. Didn't like how something got sorted? Re-organise it, or edit it by hand. Stats show what's actually been on your mind lately, across every dump. PRIVACY Everything you record or type is stored on your phone — in local storage, not on a server — until you delete it yourself. To transcribe and sort a dump, the audio and transcript are sent transiently to Cloudflare Workers AI to do that one job. It doesn't store them afterwards and doesn't use them to train models. The only things that touch a server on an ongoing basis are an anonymous monthly counter that stops the free allowance being abused — keyed to a random ID generated on your phone, not to you — and anonymous usage counts (which features get used, never what you said) that help fix the rough edges. Same random ID, and you can switch them off in Settings. No accounts, no ads, no third-party trackers. Full policy: https://offload-bo8.pages.dev/privacy WHO IT'S FOR Anyone whose thoughts move faster than their thumbs — walking, driving, lying awake at 3am, walking out of a meeting with four things to remember. If you've ever recorded a voice memo and never played it back, this is the app that does something with it before you've had the chance to forget. Open it, talk, get your head back. Privacy policy: https://offload-bo8.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://offload-bo8.pages.dev/terms