I’ve been using the free version of Cold Turkey blocker on my Mac for a while now, but it doesn’t offer an iOS/iPad app, so there’s nothing to stop me from just picking up my phone to fuck about online when I should be working, so I’m not keen on spending £30 on the full app.
There are other alternatives like Freedom.to, but they want £3 a month / £25 a year, and there’s a bit of me that rejects the idea of having to pay a recurring fee for the maintenance of what is essentially just a glorified IP block list. It feels kinda predatory, like those of us with ADHD have been fucked over by apps and sites being designed to be little dopamine boxes, and they have the only solution, but we have to pay for it.
So, do any of you use a similar app? If so, what, and how much does it cost?
That reminds me of an app I used to use called Forest, that would kill a tree I was growing if I dared to leave the app for more than 30 seconds. The only trouble was that I couldn't set any exceptions, so if I took a phone call, or opened Messages to reply to a text, my tree would die.
Might take another look, see if they've added that since.
The paid version of Forest lets you block certain apps, if you just need to stop yourself from opening some apps on your phone. Doesn't solve allowing you to open some sites, but not others, or for anything on your PC, but might still be useful.
Yeah, it's been a while since I used Forest, so either that was there all along, but I wasn't willing to pay, or they've added it since.