Stryct Blog

Guides

To block Facebook on iPhone, block the app plus facebook.com in your browser. Step-by-step with Screen Time and Stryct, and how to keep Messenger while the feed stays locked.

Guides

To block Snapchat on iPhone, limit the app and block snapchat.com in Safari. Step-by-step with Screen Time and Stryct, plus how to keep your streaks without the endless scroll.

Guides

To block YouTube on iPhone, block the app plus youtube.com and youtu.be in your browser. Step-by-step with Screen Time and Stryct, plus how to tame YouTube without quitting it.

Guides

To block Instagram on iPhone, block the app and instagram.com in your browser. Step-by-step with Instagram's own limit, Screen Time and Stryct, plus what to do about DMs.

Guides

To block X on iPhone, block the app plus x.com and twitter.com in your browser. Step-by-step with Screen Time and Stryct, and how to limit X instead of quitting it.

Guides

To block TikTok on iPhone, block the app and tiktok.com in your browser. Step-by-step with TikTok's own limit, Screen Time, and Stryct, plus why each one holds or doesn't.

Guides

To block Reddit on iPhone, you have to block both the Reddit app and reddit.com in your browser. Step-by-step with Screen Time for free, plus how to make the block hold.

Science

The math behind the scary number: hours per day turned into years of your waking life, what the average actually is, and how much time a smaller daily habit gives back.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to Apple Screen Time: a block with no button to end it early, versus free built-in limits with an Ignore Limit button and a passcode you set yourself.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to ClearSpace: no way back in during a session, versus earning extra time back through physical effort.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to one sec: a hard block with no way through, versus a scientifically validated breathing pause you can still walk past.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to Freedom: strict by default on iPhone, versus cross-device sync with strictness reserved for a paid tier.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to AppBlock: a single uninstall-protection toggle that locks for the session once it's on, versus one setting among six inside a longer Strict Mode setup.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to BePresent: removing the option to open an app by default, versus motivating you to close it yourself through rewards and competition.

Comparisons

A fact-checked look at how Stryct compares to Refocus, and why Stryct's block sessions don't require choosing a strictness level or an unlock method first.

Science

A one-week break from social media measurably reduces anxiety, depression, and insomnia in published research. Here's what the actual studies found, and where the evidence gets more complicated.

Guides

You don't have to quit the news to stop it from wrecking your day. A practical guide to reducing negative news consumption without going cold turkey.

Science

Yes, but with a real nuance most articles skip: it's not scrolling itself, it's compulsive negative content consumption. Here's what the research actually documents, by category.

Guides

Delete the app, set a timer, try mindfulness. If you've tried all three and you're still doomscrolling, here's why the advice fails, and what actually addresses the mechanism underneath it.

Science

It's not just blue light. Two separate mechanisms work against your sleep every time you scroll before bed, and only one of them has anything to do with your screen's night mode setting.

Comparisons

Nine apps compared on what actually matters: what happens the moment you want out mid-block. Pricing and defaults verified directly, not copied from any single source.

Comparisons

Opal is the most downloaded screen time app on iPhone. Here's a fact-checked look at where it holds up against Stryct, where it doesn't, and where Stryct still has catching up to do.

Guides

The methods people try, why most of them quietly fail by Thursday, and what actually works when you need an app blocked for good.