One tap, and the noise is gone
Block for 15 minutes, two hours, or until you decide you're done. A live ring counts it down in the app, in the Dynamic Island, and on your Lock Screen — and finishing one builds your streak.
Most app blockers are a suggestion. Unracked is a commitment.
Force-quit the app. Restart your phone. Open the folder you always open. The apps you blocked are still blocked — and getting out early costs 32 seconds of breathing, not a tap you make without noticing.
Coming to the App Store iPhone
iPhone · iOS 26 or later · 7-day free trial, then $9.99/month
Blocking
At a glance
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 26 or later
- Category
- App blocker · Screen time · Focus
- Price
- $9.99/month or $49.99/year
- Free trial
- 7 days, then billed automatically
- Ways to block
- Manual sessions, weekly schedules, arrival at a place
- Enforcement
- Survives force quit and restart; 32-second breathing exercise to end early
- Account required
- None. No sign-up, no email
- Data collected
- None from the blocking itself; everything stays on the device
The problem
You've installed a blocker before. You turned it off in four seconds.
That's not a discipline failure — it's a design failure. A blocker with an off switch is a reminder, and reminders lose to a craving every time. The moment you most want the app open is the exact moment the app lets you open it.
Unracked closes that gap. Blocking is enforced by iOS itself, so quitting Unracked does nothing. Schedules and places arm without you. And the way out is intentionally slow enough that you have to actually decide to take it.
Three ways to block
Start it yourself, or never think about it again.
Most people use all three. The point is that the ones you don't start are the ones that work when your judgement is worst.
The same apps gone, every week
Weekday mornings. Every evening. All night. Set the window once and the block arms itself on time, every time, even with Unracked closed. Nothing to remember, nothing to start.
Blocking starts when you walk in
Pick a place and the block begins the moment you arrive, then lifts when you leave. Your desk, a classroom, a gym, a library, home. It works with your phone in your pocket and the app shut.
Built to hold
Every shortcut around it, closed on purpose.
- Force-quitting Unracked does nothing. Blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time framework inside iOS, not on Unracked staying alive in the background.
- Restarting your phone does nothing. The shield is back up before you reach the Home Screen.
- Schedules and locations run with the app closed. iOS wakes Unracked at the boundary — the block doesn't wait for you to open anything.
- Every early exit costs the same 32 seconds. Deleting a schedule mid-block isn't a cheaper way out than ending a session. There is no cheaper way out.
- You can always see what's running. The live block shows in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen, so a block is never a mystery.
- Streaks count only what you finished. Sessions you bailed on don't count, which is the entire point of counting them.
The breathing exit
Not locked out. Just slowed down.
A blocker you genuinely cannot escape is a liability — phones matter, emergencies happen. So Unracked always gives you the door. It just asks you to breathe first.
Thirty-two seconds of box breathing — in, hold, out, hold, twice through — is long enough that the impulse that started the reach has usually passed before the block lifts. It runs on its own — there is nothing to press, and nothing to get right. And because the cost is identical for a session, a schedule, or a place, there's no clever workaround to discover — only the decision.
Breathe in
Leave at any point and the block stays exactly where it was.
Private by design
There's no account, because there's nothing to store.
No sign-up. No email. Your blocked apps, your schedules and your places never leave your phone.
Apple's Screen Time hands Unracked anonymous tokens instead of app names, so even the developer can't tell which apps you picked. Locations are matched on the device — never logged, never transmitted.
Pricing
Free for a week. Then less than one distracted afternoon.
Monthly
$9.99 / month
Everything included. Cancel any time.
Best value
Yearly
$49.99 / year
$4.16 a month — less than half the monthly price.
Both plans start with a 7-day free trial. Manual focus blocks are free and unlimited; Premium adds places, schedules and a block screen you write yourself. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription or turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings. If your subscription ends, blocking stops and your apps are released — you're never locked out by a lapsed payment.
Questions
The things people ask first.
What happens if I force-quit Unracked while a block is running?
Nothing. The shield stays up. Blocking is enforced by iOS through Apple's Screen Time framework, not by Unracked running in the background — so closing the app has no effect, and neither does restarting your phone.
Can I stop a block early?
Yes, with 32 seconds of guided breathing — in, hold, out, hold, twice through. It costs the same whether the block came from a focus session, a schedule, or arriving at a place. Unracked is a commitment device, not a trap: there's always a way out, it's just never a reflex.
Do schedules and locations work when the app is closed?
Yes. Schedules arm and disarm themselves with Unracked closed, and location blocks start the moment you arrive and lift when you leave, whether or not the app is open.
Why does Unracked need Screen Time access?
Screen Time — Family Controls — is the only mechanism Apple provides for blocking apps on iPhone, and Unracked uses it on your own device. In exchange, Apple hands the app anonymous tokens instead of app names, so it never learns what you blocked.
Why does location blocking need Always location access?
So a block can start when you arrive without the app being open. iOS wakes Unracked at the boundary of a place you chose. The match happens on the device; your location is never logged and never transmitted.
What happens if my subscription ends?
Blocking stops. Schedules and locations disarm and any running block is released, so a lapsed subscription can never lock you out of your own apps. Your settings are kept, and resubscribing restores them.
Which devices are supported?
iPhone, running iOS 26 or later. There's no iPad, Mac, Android or web version.
The block you can't talk yourself out of.
Pick your apps once. Decide when they're gone. Then stop negotiating with yourself about it forty times a day.
Coming to the App Store iPhone
iPhone · iOS 26 or later · 7-day free trial, then $9.99/month