Choosing an app
Best NoFap apps for iPhone, compared
QUITTR, Brainbuddy, Fortify, QUITPRN, NoFap.io, Covenant Eyes and Monke Reset in one table: tracker, blocker or both, from each live App Store listing.
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Founder of Monke Reset
Boris
Boris built Monke Reset to quit porn, from the method that finally worked: a streak to keep, and a small reward for keeping it.
Written by Boris
How blocking works
How people get around Screen Time, and fixes
The common ways around iPhone Screen Time, from a known passcode to deleted apps and the clock, and the setting that closes each one on iOS 27 and iOS 26.
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How blocking works
Limit Adult Websites blocks normal sites
Why the iPhone Limit Adult Websites filter sometimes blocks normal searches and sites, and how to let one through with the Allowed list on iOS 27 and iOS 26.
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Choosing an app
Best porn blocker for iPhone: how to choose
Which iPhone porn blocker to pick: the free Screen Time filter, DNS, VPN or an app. What each one misses, and which keep working when the app is closed.
6 min read
Choosing an app
Covenant Eyes alternative for iPhone
Covenant Eyes sends your activity to an ally. Monke Reset reports to no one. How the two models differ, and who should stay with Covenant Eyes instead.
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How blocking works
How to block NSFW content on iPhone
Turn off NSFW content in X, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok, then limit the apps themselves with Screen Time. Paths checked against each app’s help center.
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How blocking works
Limit Adult Websites not working? 5 fixes
Limit Adult Websites letting porn through on your iPhone? Five fixes in order: the passcode, the allow lists, other browsers, other devices, and an update.
2 min read
How blocking works
Limit Adult vs Only Approved Websites
The three iPhone Web Content options compared: Unrestricted, Limit Adult Websites and Only Approved Websites. What each blocks, and the strict one’s cost.
3 min read
How blocking works
How to make Screen Time hard to turn off
Keep adult content blocked on an iPhone: let someone else set the Screen Time passcode, stop apps being deleted, and know the ways around it that remain.
3 min read
Choosing an app
QUITTR alternative: what each app does
QUITTR, Brainbuddy, Seed and Monke Reset compared from their own App Store listings: community, blocking, what a slip costs you, and who each one suits.
4 min read
Counting the days
What to do after a relapse: the next 24 hours
Relapsed after a streak? What to do in the next 24 hours, why one slip doesn't undo 30 days, and how to stop one bad night from turning into three in a row.
2 min read
How blocking works
Free porn blocker for iPhone: Screen Time
Yes. The Screen Time content filter is built into every iPhone, costs nothing and takes about five minutes to switch on. What it blocks, and what it misses.
1 min read
The moment itself
Does deleting social media help with porn?
It often aims at the right place, because many bad nights start on a feed. Why deleting the app tends not to last, and the kinds of friction that stay put.
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Naming the problem
Does quitting porn fix brain fog?
Nobody can give you a date when brain fog clears after quitting porn. What you can change this week, starting with sleep, and the study that shows why.
2 min read
The moment itself
Feeds vs porn sites in 4,876 recovery posts
In 4,876 long posts from a porn recovery community, 211 mention a social feed or scrolling and 17 name a porn site. Most mention neither. What that means.
4 min read
Naming the problem
Why people drop out of quit-porn programmes
The first trial of online self-help for problematic porn use reported large effects and 89.4% dropout. Why the dropout is the more useful number for you.
3 min read
Counting the days
Should I tell someone I am trying to quit?
The evidence leans yes. Reporting progress to someone strengthened the effect of tracking it, but telling one person is not the same as a public streak.
2 min read
The moment itself
How to stop a porn urge in the first minute
What to do in the first minute of a porn urge, with your phone in your hand at 11pm: the steps for right now, the plan to write tonight, and what to set up.
4 min read
Naming the problem
What happens when you quit porn, week by week
What men commonly report after quitting porn: strong urges early, rough moods and sleep, the flatline, later more energy. And what the research really shows.
4 min read
Counting the days
Does it take 21 days to break a habit?
No. The 21 days comes from a 1960 self-help book about getting used to a new face. When habits were measured, the median was 66 days, and the range 18 to 254.
3 min read
Naming the problem
WHO ICD-11 CSBD (6C72) and pornography
ICD-11 code 6C72, compulsive sexual behaviour disorder: the WHO definition word for word, where pornography appears, the moral distress rule and DSM-5-TR.
5 min read
Counting the days
Why do I keep relapsing on day 2 or 3?
Lots of attempts to quit porn end on day two or three. Why the first days are the hard ones, what to decide before the urge, and what to do the morning after.
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