Go off the radar.
Try a social media withdrawal and discover the benefits of dopamine restoration. Be more productive after 1 week of starting your detox.
Available on iOS.
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Three easy steps.
Pick the apps that steal your day
Tap the ones you already know about. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever yours are. Give each a daily limit, or block it outright.
Opening one shows the cost, not the feed
When you reach for a blocked app, Offliner shows you what it is about to cost you. Then it asks you to wait fifteen seconds before you can go in.
Every clean day builds the streak
Stay under your limits and the day counts. Break one and the day goes blank. After a week or two, the streak is the thing you are protecting, not the phone.
The app with the most accurate screen time analytics.
Everything is one number away.
Each screen has a single thing it wants you to look at. Nothing is buried, nothing is decorative.
The streak
Distraction free days, counted from the day you start. It opens at one, not at zero. Days inside a detox always count, because the apps cannot open at all.
Focus Score
One hundred means zero minutes on distracting apps. The first ten minutes cost a point each, so slipping shows up straight away. After that it falls slowly, so a bad morning does not write off the day.
Reclaimed
Hours you got back, measured against the honest baseline you set on day one. It only ever goes up, because a total that can fall is discouraging rather than motivating.
Rules
Work hours, bedtime, mornings, weekends. Pick a quick rule in one tap or build your own with days, a time window and a set of apps.
Focus sessions
Set a length, name the session, start it. A timer or a pomodoro. The apps go quiet until it ends, and it shows on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while it runs.
Insights
Day, week and month. Which apps took the time, when your usage peaks, and a plain recommendation you can apply as a rule with one tap.
The screen that changes your mind.
Every other blocker shows you a padlock and an Ignore button. Offliner shows you the truth instead.
You have tried to open this app seven times today. You have already spent forty one minutes in it. Your streak is fourteen days long. Those are your numbers, not a lecture.
There is no instant unlock anywhere in the app. If you still want in, you wait fifteen live seconds and you get five minutes. Most people close it before the timer runs out.
This is not wishful thinking. In a peer reviewed field study of the same idea, a short waiting screen before an app opened cut the number of openings people went through with by 57 percent over six weeks, and people abandoned the app 36 percent of the times the pause appeared.
Grüning et al., Directing smartphone use through the self-nudge app one sec, PNAS, 2023. 280 participants over six weeks.
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People who had already given up.
Love it. I am constantly motivated to keep my streak by reading and exercising, and I have stopped relying on social media.
This app helped me reset and regulate my dopamine levels. After multiple tries with other subscriptions, this was the one that gave me the best results.
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What Offliner is, in plain terms.
What is the Offliner app?
Offliner is a screen time and app blocking app for iPhone and iPad. It measures how long you spend in each app accurate to the second, blocks the apps you choose at the operating system level, and counts every day you stay under your limits as a streak. It was built by Rodrigo Atiye and is free to download on the App Store.
How is Offliner different from Apple Screen Time?
Apple Screen Time rounds your usage and puts an "Ignore Limit" button on every block screen, which takes about a second to tap. Offliner reports usage to the second and has no instant unlock anywhere. Opening a blocked app shows your real numbers for the day and requires a live fifteen second wait before it grants five minutes, and taking that escape hatch breaks your streak.
Is Offliner free?
Offliner is free to download from the App Store and includes in app purchases for the full feature set. You can see the current pricing on the App Store listing before you buy anything.
Does Offliner work without an account?
Yes. There is no sign up and no account. Everything Offliner measures is computed on your iPhone and stays there. Apple's Screen Time system gives apps opaque identifiers rather than app names, so even we cannot see which apps you selected.
Can you bypass Offliner?
Not instantly, which is the point. There is no ignore button. The secondary button on a block screen starts a live fifteen second countdown and then grants five minutes, breaking your streak in the process, and a thirty minute cooldown stops you doing it twice in a row on the same app.
Was Offliner previously called LOCK IN?
Yes. Offliner was released as LOCK IN and was rebuilt from the ground up in 2026, which is where the second level accuracy, the streak and the current design came from. It is the same App Store listing and existing users keep their data.
The next two weeks happen either way.
You can spend them the way you spent the last two, or you can spend them building the thing you keep telling yourself you will get to.
iPhone and iPad. Cancel anytime in the App Store.