The wait
Type a URL. A timer starts — five minutes on day one, twenty by week three. No password. No button. Most urges don't outlast the kettle boiling, let alone this.
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A timer between you and the sites you're quitting. It grows as you do.
The urge peaks at 90 seconds. You're past that.
Default schedule. Configurable before install — locked afterward, in one direction only. You can always make it stricter. Never easier.
One subscription covers every device.
No gamification. No shame. No accountability texts. Three quiet mechanics that turn out to matter more than everything else combined.
Type a URL. A timer starts — five minutes on day one, twenty by week three. No password. No button. Most urges don't outlast the kettle boiling, let alone this.
Three attempts a day in week one. Two in week two. One in week three. By day thirty the door does not open — so you stop trying.
Settings only move one way: stricter. Loosening anything — raising daily attempts, shortening waits, removing a custom block — sits on a 24-hour cooldown before it takes effect. Tighter changes apply instantly. The version of you that sets the rules always outranks the one that breaks them.
PhaseOut works at the DNS layer — the same layer your phone's parental controls use. No background software, no battery drain, no slowdown.
Gradual (90d), Moderate (30d), Cold Turkey, or custom.
Signed .mobileconfig for iOS & Mac. Script for Windows. Hostname for Android.
Tap profile, enter passcode. One account covers every device.
DNS quietly filtered. Normal sites pass. Blocked ones don't load — to access one, you open the dashboard and wait out the cooldown.
The part of your brain that wants this is not the thinking part. It's chemistry — a dopamine spike followed by a valley. Left untouched, the wave crests and falls in about ninety seconds.
PhaseOut doesn't ask you to say no. It asks you to do nothing, for five minutes. By the time the clock runs out, the chemistry has too.
One plan. Pick how long. All features in every option.
No vague marketing. If you're about to type a card number in, you deserve real answers first.
Friction, not force. Blocked sites simply don't load — they return a clean DNS failure. To unlock one, you open the dashboard and wait out the cooldown (5 minutes on day one, growing to 20 by day thirty). Most urges don't survive that wait.
No. We operate a DNS resolver. Blocked domains receive an NXDOMAIN response (no IP, instant fail); everything else is forwarded to Cloudflare over an encrypted connection without being stored. We don't have a browsing-history column because we don't have browsing history.
Neither. iOS/Mac: signed configuration profile. Windows: a few clicks in Settings → Network → DNS. Android: one hostname in Settings → Private DNS. No background process, no battery drain, no slowdown.
Add any domain to your personal blocklist. It blocks the same way as our default list — and removing it later is also subject to a cooldown, so you can't un-block in a moment of weakness. Most subscribers block three or four additional sites.
Cancel any time from your settings page — no friction, no phone call.
Sign in, open Settings, and click Cancel subscription. It takes about ten seconds. You keep access until the end of your current billing period, after which you'll be reminded to remove the DNS profile from your device.
Protection is permanent. The cooldown on settings changes stretches to its longest, sessions drop to zero, and your blocklist is locked in. The friction is the feature.
Start today. By the end of the month, the sites you can't stop visiting will be sites you no longer visit.