SocialManagement: App Blocker

Manage your socials. Before they manage you.

SocialManagement is an app blocker for social media. Lock the apps that distract you most, at the moments you choose: bedtime, dinner, work. Your screen time is yours again.

HOW IT WORKS
• Pick your socials: one by one, or a whole category such as Social.
• Pick your moments: Bedtime, Morning, Work, Dinner or your own, on the days you want. They switch on by themselves, even with the app closed.
• Right now? Hold the red dot for one second and your socials are locked. Also from Control Center or the Action button (iOS 18 and later).
Done in under a minute. No account, no questionnaire.

GENTLE OR STRICT
• Gentle: want a quick look anyway? Breathe for 10 seconds first. Each time that day it takes twice as long, up to 80 seconds. Then you get 5 minutes and the lock closes by itself.
• Strict: no breather. You can only stop early with your key.

THE KEY
Pick a barcode or QR code somewhere else in your home: a book on the shelf, the box of your headphones. To end a strict lock early, you walk there and scan it. It's not a vault. It's a walk.

UNTIL WHEN
Your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island show until when your socials are locked, with a countdown, Gentle or Strict, and your own note. Five minutes before a moment starts, you get a heads-up.

THE LOCK SCREEN
Open a locked app and you see a calm screen with that app's name and a full stop. Add your own note if you like, such as "Reading tonight." Tap Never mind and you're back.

ONLY REAL NUMBERS
"This week: 23 times not opened, 3 breathers." We count what really happened. No estimated hours.

CHALLENGES
Want a goal? Pick a challenge, from one hour without socials to a full year of quiet nights. A challenge is a strict lock on the apps you picked. The app counts only the hours and nights it could really check, and your rewards stay on your phone. You can always stop, after a short wait.

PRIVACY
No account. No tracking. Your data stays on your phone. SocialManagement never stores or sends which apps you pick: your iPhone keeps that choice to itself. Now and then the app checks a small file on our website to see whether your version still works; nothing about you goes along.

HONEST ANSWER
It's a kind lock, not a vault. You can always switch off its access in Settings > Screen Time. We made it pleasant enough that you won't want to.

FREE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED
SocialManagement is free. Nothing to buy for this iPhone app, in the app or anywhere else. No account, no ads. Works on iPhone with iOS 16.4 or later.

Also from us: Tikuren, for people who track hours and send invoices.

Full stop.