“No news at my
apartment after 5pm.”
That's a complete StarBlocker rule. A topic, a place and a time — in one sentence.
Traditional Blockers
cnn.com · foxnews.com · nytimes.com ·
news · election · breaking …
- Fixed lists — new sites slip through
- Keywords misfire on ads and headlines
- Blind inside search and social feeds
- All or nothing — whole sites only
StarBlocker
“No news at my apartment after 5pm.”
- No lists, no keywords — just your sentence
- AI reads the screen: text, images, video
- Judges your intention, not a domain
- News ad you scrolled past? Fine. Googling news? Blocked.
Rule · No news at my apartment after 5pm
Time for a break
Stepped off course, take a moment. All is well.
The blocker itself, rebuilt in this page. It covers every display, and no screen has a skip button.
When you slip — the screen is covered and a countdown runs.
- 01 30 seconds — first slip
- 02 60 seconds — second
- 03 60 seconds — and every one after
- 04 10 minutes — on every device, if you keep going
Thirty seconds is enough to breathe and remember what you meant to be doing. When the screen comes back, the next move is yours — made on purpose, not on autopilot.
Three ways to control
your content
Blocks, time limits and missions, all in plain English. A block can apply always, on a schedule, at a location, or on a Wi-Fi network — alone or combined.
Blocking
A topic, switched off — adult content, gambling, news. The AI decides what counts, so new sites and mirrors don't slip through.
Time limits
Minutes per day, shared across every device. Run out and it's blocked until midnight.
Missions
Your own sentence, judged as written. “Doing accounting work in Excel” is a valid mission.
Always
On from login, wherever you are.
Schedule
Days of the week, start and end time.
Location
A point on a map and a radius.
Wi-Fi
Name the networks it lives on.
Conditions combine
Up to five conditions on one rule, joined with and or or.
Missions: everything
else is blocked
Declare what you're doing, and the logic flips: everything that doesn't serve the mission is blocked. Nothing to list. A minute to a week.
Every Use missions ask what you're here for each time you pick the device up — always, on a schedule, or only at chosen places.
Every Use mission · 9:14pm
What is this session for?
I'll be in Typora writing my book. Googling simple facts for it — the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate — is fine.
Open the laptop and it asks. A real answer — the pitcher's mound counts as writing. Shopping for shoes doesn't.
How it works
Scan, judge, block — the same loop on every device you own.
Scan
Starblocker reads the text on your screen. When text isn't enough, AI vision looks at the screen for visual clues.
Judge
What it sees is checked against your rules and your mission. Unsure counts in your favour.
Block
A full-screen countdown covers every display, and it escalates if you keep going. No screen has a skip button.
Scans everything visible on your screen
Text, images and video, all judged against what you said you were doing. Flagged material in an ad you scrolled past is fine. Click on it and you're blocked.
Hard to cheat
On Mac and Windows, the app relaunches if closed and removing it takes fifteen minutes. Phone protection depends on the permissions you grant.
Anything read on your screen is never stored
Frames are judged in memory and dropped. We store only the judgements and metadata such as time and verdict.
StarBlocker on iPhone
Off mission — Writing my book
You named what matters right now. You can return to it.
Streaks and warnings
Your device activity, your check-ins and your streak resets build a record of when things actually go wrong. Once it holds up, you get a heads-up walking into the window — in time to make the next hour intentional.
How it learns
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01
Learn
Records what you do on your devices, and checks in on how you're feeling and what else is going on in your life.
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02
Connect
Learns which events, emotions, times and places connect to your slips and blocker infractions.
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03
Warn
Warns you when you're walking into a spot you have lost your intention in before.
When you catch yourself drifting
Grounding Break
For when you catch yourself off task, overwhelmed, distracted or browsing against your goals. One press and every device rests for five minutes — Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone, all at once. A place to invest in your inner peace and your intentions.
A goal-aware blocker
Habits, day counters, challenges and a nightly check-in live in the same app as the blocking, and are part of what the warnings read.
Habits
A name and the days it's due. A day you don't schedule is not a miss.
Streaks
Days since, from a date you set. Every evening one card asks how today went — on course, slipped, or lapsed — and how you felt. A reset erases the streak, not the history.
64 days
on your record
Challenges
Pick a name and a length — 7, 30 or 90 days — and tick a box a day. Finish the run and an alien joins your collection. Each finished challenge grows the next one bigger and stranger.
7 · 30 · 90 days
Achievements
Earn badges for streaks, missions, urges surfed, finished challenges, community contributions and more.
And worn in the community
Anyone have any tips reducing social media use?
Rather than time limits, I use location limits on StarBlocker. When I don't use social media at home, it feels manageable. I can use it on the train or out with friends.
Setting up
is simple
Blocking
Toggle a built-in topic on — or write your own rule in plain English.
Time limits
Give an activity minutes per day, shared across every device.
Missions
Declare what you're doing, and everything else is blocked while it runs.
Habits and counters
Name a habit and the days it's due. Start a counter and it counts.
Community
Celebrate streaks and exchange tips.
Stay accountable
Add up to two partners. They get reports, they hear the moment protection weakens, and you can put your settings behind their approval.
They hear when protection weakens
A rule switched off, a device gone quiet, an uninstall. Emailed as it happens.
They see the rules, not your browsing data.
Rule names and events. Never a screenshot, a URL or a keyword.
Permission to change settings
Hand a partner the keys, and loosening a rule needs their sign-off.
Removing one takes twenty-four hours
And they're told the moment you ask.
To: sam@example.com
Protection weakened
- What changed
- A rule was switched off
- Rule
- Adult content
- When it applies
- Always, on every device
- Device
- MacBook Pro · today, 11:42pm
Everything,
one price
Every feature, five devices, both partners. Mac requires Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Trial details at checkout — checkout shows trial eligibility, duration, and the date of your first charge.
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Why no free tier: the subscription pays for the vision model looking at your screen thousands of times a day. That is the honest reason.
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