ReControl

Take back your time. Take back your life. Your apps stay blocked. Getting in takes one deliberate act — and you decide what that act is. ReControl doesn't track your screen time or send you a weekly report. It puts one honest obstacle between you and the apps that pull you in, then gets out of the way. HOW IT WORKS Choose the apps you want blocked. They stay shielded by default. When you want in, ReControl asks you to complete one short challenge — then unblocks for 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes and re-blocks automatically when the time is up. CHOOSE YOUR FRICTION Four strict modes, each demanding something different. Pick the one that actually stops you. • Breathing — a guided 4-4-4-4 box breathing cycle. Choose 1, 2 or 3 rounds: 16, 32 or 48 seconds of slowing down. • Hold to unlock — keep your finger down for 15, 30 or 60 seconds while a ring fills. Lift early and it starts over. • Type it out — transcribe a reflective prompt, word by word. You can't copy a sentence without reading it. Capitalization and punctuation don't matter. • Mental math — three-term sums, two-digit products, subtraction that needs a borrow. Enough to make you stop and think. Get it wrong and you get a fresh problem. Can't decide? Random picks one for you each time, so the barrier never becomes routine. A MOMENT TO THINK Every challenge carries a reflective question or quote — more than 50 of them. During breathing and hold they sit in front of you while you wait. In the typing challenge you write one out yourself. They appear on the block screen too, instead of a blank wall. INSIGHTS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Most screen-time apps tell you how many hours you lost. ReControl tells you how often the friction worked — the share of challenges you started and then walked away from. Plus unblocks per day, the hours you reach for your phone most, and which challenge turns you back most often. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No ads. ReControl contains no networking code at all, so nothing it stores can leave your iPhone. Apple's Screen Time framework hands the app anonymous tokens — ReControl never even learns the names of the apps you block. Requires Screen Time permission, which you can revoke at any time in Settings.