It's never5 minutes.
Your thumb opens the app before you have even decided to go there. VisionLock steps in while you scroll, not only when you open an app, so five minutes do not turn into two hours.
Does this happen to you?
“Behavioural cocaine, spread across the whole interface.”
creator of infinite scroll in 2006, translated from his BBC Panorama interview in 2018
Scrolling has existed since the earliest graphical interfaces. What he regrets is removing the next page button and replacing it with an endless feed designed so that we never stop by ourselves.
It’s the present versus your future.
The urge belongs to the present. The life you want needs a rule that remains when motivation leaves.
Delay Open
Each reopening waits a little longer than the last.
Consecutive Limit
Pause after consecutive use.
Scheduled Session
Block during the hours you choose.
X Filter
Filter adult content and block chosen websites.
“Do not lower your ideal because you think you lack time.”
Without a boundary, the ideal comes down to meet the habit. With VisionLock, your standards stay high and you rise toward them.
Without VisionLock
Your standards slowly lower to fit the time the scroll leaves you.
With VisionLock
Your standards stay high. You get the time and attention to rise toward them.
Then you will not be able to say it was because you did not have time.
If you recognised yourself above, you already know why you are here.
VisionLock does not make you feel guilty. It steps in at the right time, explains why, and lets you get back to living. Free to start, with no credit card needed.