For iOS · Porn addiction recovery

Don't just quit porn.
Outgrow it.

Blockers only buy you time. Urge uses that time to change who you are — a goal card you read morning and night, daily vows you actually keep, and in-the-moment tools that teach you an urge is something you feel, not something you obey.

Download on the App Store

iOS only · Free with optional in-app purchases

Urge home screen showing a 90-day clean streak on a live clock, protection on, and the Panic Button

Why this works when willpower didn't

You are not your urges. An urge is a wave of energy moving through your nervous system — and a wave can be surfed.

Urge trains you to ride the spike instead of obeying it — regulate your body, let the wave pass, and put that energy into the man you're becoming. The blocks hold the line while the identity work makes them unnecessary.

What's inside

Tools for the moment — and a practice for the man you're becoming

  • A goal card for who you’re becoming

    One definite aim — written in your own words, signed and dated, and read aloud morning and night until you can see it, feel it, believe it.

    • Your aim, your plan, and what you’ll give in return
    • Signed with a date — a goal without a date is a wish
    • Read it right from your Lock Screen
    • The streak clock shows your brain rewiring toward day 90
  • Daily vows: your word, kept

    Twice a day you make one small promise — keep the commitments you made to yourself — and then you keep it. Identity is built exactly this way.

    • A morning vow and an evening vow, right on your Lock Screen
    • “I promise” — one tap, on the record
    • Vow kept: daily proof you’re a man who keeps his word
    • Your goal card is who you’re becoming. Your vows are today’s promise.
  • A daily rhythm that crafts your energy signature

    Lay your reminders out across the day — vows, goal-card readings, check-ins — so your whole day keeps pulling you toward an identity that doesn’t need porn.

    • Design your own timeline of daily reminders
    • Morning intention, midday check-in, evening seal
    • Timed around your risk hours
    • Small repeated signals that add up to a different you
  • Surf the urge — don’t obey it

    One tap when it hits. Your reasons, your own face in a live mirror, and a guided way through the spike — because urges pass when you stop feeding them.

    • “I’m thinking of relapsing” — an off-ramp before it happens
    • Live camera mirror — meet your own eyes; nothing is recorded
    • Your “why” — the reasons and photos you chose
    • The real cost of relapsing, spelled out
  • Regulate your nervous system. Transmute the energy.

    Urges live in the body. Guided breathwork settles your system in minutes — and turns the charge into fuel for the life you’re building.

    • Physiological Sigh and Box breathing
    • Grounding built into the relapse flow
    • A post-slip debrief that resets you instead of shaming you
    • Calm, Sleep, and Focus modes, plus custom sequences
  • Blocks that hold the line meanwhile

    Two independent layers — Screen Time and DNS — with live status checks, so the old door stays shut while the new identity takes hold.

    • Screen Time web filtering plus DNS-level blocking
    • Lock down sites and apps — up to permanently
    • Cooldown before protection can be switched off
    • Explicit-media restrictions across the system

App preview

See it for yourself

  • Urge home screen: a live clock showing a 90-day clean streak, time reclaimed, and the Panic Button
  • Protection screen: permanent lockdown with adult sites blocked, apps locked, and urges blocked stats
  • Panic Button screen: live camera mirror, your reason for quitting, and the side effects of relapsing
  • Learn tab: a lesson path with units on willpower, triggers, and rewiring your brain
  • Community feed: men posting streak milestones, relapse check-ins, and support
  • Breathwork session: guided inhale timer with hold and exhale phases

Who it's for

This is for you if

  • You’ve quit a hundred times, but the blocker changed and you didn’t
  • You don’t just want porn blocked — you want it to have no pull on you
  • You want a daily practice, not another app you open once
  • You’re done white-knuckling and ready to rebuild who you are

Urge is a behavior-change tool, not medical care, therapy, or a substitute for professional support.

The urge will come. Meet it as someone new.

Download Urge, write your goal card, make tonight's vow — and start becoming the man who doesn't need it.

Download on the App Store

iOS only · Free with optional in-app purchases