Unhabit 4+

This app almost perfectly meets my needs. It allows me to block problematic websites from my phone that I navigated to without thinking. It allows me to unblock for very specific needs after a cooldown period. Often, 60 seconds is enough to make me realize I don’t need the site. But it allows me to access, for example, very specific YouTube videos with intention without falling into the trap of browsing mindlessly. The UI for allowing an exception through safari is clunky, which adds some resistance to mindlessly browsing.

2 things would make this app perfect and 5 stars to me. First is subdomain support, which does not seem to work in this app. Second, I wish it was a little more difficult to disable a block through the app. It is easier to remove restrictions that way, which has lead to a couple of occasions where I did give into mindless browsing for a time.

When I deleted the Facebook app from my phone, I started checking it through Safari. I tried to get rid of just the newsfeed but nothing seemed to work…until I found this app!

I can’t delete my Facebook account because it’s a necessary evil—in my field, it’s what we use to communicate regularly and maintain a professional presence online. Now I only check on my laptop (I downloaded a different extension that blocks the newsfeed). On my phone, this app allowed me to finally disengage and focus on my real life. A hundred times thank you to the developers of this app!!

Would be 5 stars but for some reason it doesn’t block Twitter’s mobile site. Works great for Instagram and Facebook. But for Twitter it shows blocked in the app but I can still load it, if I click Unhabit in the browser it says it’s not blocked, I can block it, then the Unhabit warning comes up, but if I switch app and come back I can still access it and it is the same thing over again.