FlowBreak
An app that helps you spend less time on your phone. You choose the apps, and how long you want on them.
Sped up for the demo.
How it works
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1Choose the app
Switch it on in FlowBreak. Everything else on your phone stays as it is.
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LimitEach hour
That’s your whole hour. Spend it and it stays slow till the next hour. Breaks don’t reset it.
2Choose the minutes
2, 5, 10 or 15. Each time you open the app, or across the whole hour.
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3It gets slow
Pictures and videos take ages to load, until your minutes come back.
Why slow
Pro
Without Pro, one app slows at a time. Pro slows every supported app you add, and comes with Rooms, Windows and Strict Mode.
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Rooms
Group the apps you hop between. They share one timer each hour, so moving between them doesn’t add time.
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Windows
Pick the apps and the hours. From 10:00 pm, say, they run slow whether or not they’ve hit a limit.
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Strict Mode
Limits can go down, not up, until you turn it off. Turning it off takes a five-minute wait.
- $0Without Pro, one app at a time
- $9.99Pro, a month
- $49.99Pro, a year
- $179.99Pro, paid once
Monthly and yearly start with 14 days free. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows yours.
Privacy
Other apps
Messages, calls, maps and your bank work as they always do.
No account
No email, no password, nothing to sign up for.
Your screen
FlowBreak can’t see your screen, your messages or what you watch.
Questions
Which apps does it work with?
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit, Snapchat and Pinterest. On Android, Facebook and Threads too.
Does it block the app?
No. It opens and works as usual until your minutes are up. After that, pictures and videos take ages to load until your minutes come back, at the next hour, or after a 6-minute break if you set it per session.
How is this different from Screen Time?
A Screen Time limit ends on a screen with Ignore Limit on it, and two taps get you back in. FlowBreak puts up no screen. The app keeps working, just slowly, so there’s nothing to tap past.
Does it slow anything else?
It slows the apps you chose, once their minutes are up. Messages, calls, maps and your bank work as they always do.
Why does my phone mention a VPN?
That’s the name your phone gives the permission FlowBreak needs to slow the apps you choose. It all happens on your phone, and nothing passes through a server of ours.
Can I turn it off?
Yes, whenever you like. If you’d rather not be able to, Pro has Strict Mode: limits can go down but not up, and turning it off takes a five-minute wait.
What do I get without Pro?
One app slowing at a time, with its own minutes. Pro slows every supported app you add.
When can I get it?
Soon. It’s coming to iPhone, iPad and Android.