Compulsive checking
You unlock for one thing and come up twenty minutes later in a feed you did not choose.
iOS app blocker · attention · sleep · rewards
Your phone
needs to
STFU.
Block the apps stealing your attention, reclaim your time, build better habits, and earn rewards for staying off social media.
Built for people who are done pretending Screen Time is enough. No fake user counts. No medical claims.
Slide the mute switch to block social feeds. Activate to toggle.
SLIDE →
Live · slide to mute
InstagramTikTokYouTubeXReelsShortsSafari back doorsBedtime scrollInstagramTikTokYouTubeXReelsShortsSafari back doorsBedtime scroll
MutedBlockedSTFUApp + domainBedtime lockReclaimed hoursMutedBlockedSTFUApp + domainBedtime lockReclaimed hours
The punch
Tap the phone. Watch the feed get STFU’d.
A lock should feel physical. Drag to tilt. Tap once and Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube bounce off the glass. That’s the product, not a metaphor.
Why STFU exists
Social apps are designed to keep you coming back. STFU puts the boundary back.
This is not a personality failure. It is a product doing its job. You feel mentally fried because the machine is good at its job.
Short-form overload
The clips are engineered to never end. Your night is the inventory.
Sleep that never starts
Bed becomes a second commute through other people's content.
Hours you cannot find
The cost of scrolling is invisible until a Tuesday is gone.
How it works
Four moves. Then your phone is quieter.
1 / 4
Pick the apps that need to STFU
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X — plus the websites that pretend they are not the same thing.
2 / 4
Start a session or schedule a lock
Work block. Bedtime. Weekend. You choose the window. STFU holds it.
3 / 4
STFU blocks the apps and domains
The icon still sits there. The feed does not. Safari is not the escape hatch.
4 / 4
Reclaim time, build streaks, earn rewards
See the hours come back. Keep the chain. Points now. Bounties as the network grows.
What it does
The features are locks. The point is your life.
Block social apps
Shut the apps that own your thumb. Not a lecture. A lock.
Block the websites too
Same feed, smaller window. Domains get the same treatment.
Strict modes & schedules
If you will negotiate with yourself, make the negotiation expensive.
Streaks and stats
See the hours you got back. Keep a chain you do not want to break.
Points, rewards, bounties
A scoreboard for staying off the thing that usually wins.
Bedtime locks
Protect the last hour. Morning-you will notice.
Challenges
Compete with the version of you that always 'just checks.'
A clean modern lock
Looks like a product you chose. Not parental-control software from 2011.
Health / science
Brain rot is a meme. The attention problem isn’t.
This is not productivity theater. There is a real conversation in the research about compulsive use, fragmented attention, late-night scrolling, and short-form overload. STFU exists to put a boundary on apps designed to keep you checking — not to treat a diagnosis.
Get paid to STFU
Earn points. Keep streaks. Unlock rewards for staying off the apps.
Earn points, complete challenges, and unlock rewards for staying off the apps that usually steal your time. This is not guaranteed cash income. It is a scoreboard that can grow into sponsored bounties.
Points
Stay off the locked apps. The scoreboard notices.
Streaks
A chain of quiet nights is more persuasive than a TED Talk.
Challenges
Set a window. Beat it. Or lose to your own thumb again — publicly, to yourself.
Bounties
Sponsored challenges later. Real rewards for real time off. Not a side hustle pitch.
What you get back
Less scrolling. More life.
- Better mornings
- Fewer doom-scroll spirals
- More focus at the thing you sat down to do
- Less compulsive checking
- More sleep
- More time with people in the room
- More real life
FAQ
Practical questions. Straight answers.
Yes. You pick the apps that need to shut up. During a session or schedule, STFU blocks those apps so opening them is not a one-thumb reflex. Strict modes add more friction if you know you will bargain with yourself.
Tell your apps
to STFU.
Stop scrolling. Start living. Download STFU on iPhone and take your attention back.