Apps similar to Recode include Mindful : Focus & Screen Time, which is free and open source. Other options are LeechBlock, Cold Turkey, Curbox and Reef Wellbeing. You're spoiled for choice with Anti Procrastination Tools like Recode: we list more than 50 alternatives for Android, iPhone, Mac, iPad and Windows.
iPhone screen time app: a 5-second pause before Instagram, TikTok or YouTube that asks why you're opening it, keeps a daily focus score, and never blocks you out. A pause, not a blocker.
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Awareen (Awareness + Screen) is an Android application that helps users become more aware of their screen time through a persistent overlay timer. The app displays your current screen time in real-time, even when using other applications, promoting mindful device usage.
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Screentide is a flexible Android screen-time manager that helps you reduce distracting app and website use with blocks, limits, schedules, calendar-sync and in-app friction.
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Reclaim your time with smart app blocking.
BrainRotShield helps you stay focused by automatically blocking distracting apps—like social media, games, or streaming—during the hours you choose. Whether it's study time, work hours, or bedtime, your custom schedule keeps you on track.
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Inspired by a well known SelfControl, it aims to provide a similar functionality on iOS. Getting rid of your wasteful browsing habits is as easy as downloading this app and adding your favorite time wasters list.
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Fitlock is an iPhone app blocker that keeps your most distracting apps locked until you've moved. Pick the apps or websites you lose time to (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever it is for you), set a daily goal, and they stay blocked until you hit it.
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An iPhone and iPad app blocker with Session, Usage, and Schedule Locks. Group apps under shared rules, set unlock budgets, cooldowns, daily allowances, and blocked times, with verification friction and on-device processing.
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OnTrack uses keyword detection to make sure that the sites you are browsing are related to the specific subject you have selected. Multiple strictness modes are available, as well as a customized whitelist for mandatory sites to stay unblocked.
Think First is an iOS app that inserts a deliberate pause before you open Instagram, TikTok and other distracting apps — a countdown and one question, not a hard block.
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AntiSocial is designed to not only help you understand what ‘normal usage’ looks like, but to give you the tools to manage, block and control your cell phone usage so that you can unplug, minimize distractions and focus on the things that matter.
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