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Why the next morning, not the moment.

Punishing you while you're failing is what blockers do, and it's why they get deleted. Munen never hardens the friction mid-slip. It scores the whole day overnight and starts each morning with a new contract: firmer pauses after a rough day, down to a tap and two seconds after a good one. You always know why, because the score is transparent. No black box deciding you were "bad."

The shield speaks in your words. During setup you write your own reason for wanting less screen time, and pick what you'd rather be doing instead. That's what appears when a distracting app is about to open. Not a generic lecture. Yours. Free covers up to 3 apps; premium removes the limit and lets you set how firm the friction gets.

Reclaimed life. Continue past a shield and you get a breather. Come back before it ends and you reclaim the minutes you didn't spend, and they add up into a running total of time you chose to keep. It's the only mechanic here that rewards a voluntary decision to stop.

A coach that has read your week. Not a generic chatbot. It knows your metrics, your zone history and how the week actually went, and answers from that. A free account gets you three messages a week and one journal analysis a week, enough to see whether it's worth anything. Premium raises those caps to a level you won't hit in normal use, and adds the weekly read of your journal: what you handled, one pattern it noticed, one thing to try next week.

SOS for the moment the urge hits. Free answers instantly with a written way through it. No account, no waiting, no upsell in the way. Premium builds that response from your own trigger and your current zone instead.

Your zone is yours to adjust: once a day on free, every four hours on premium. Nothing is blocked unless you turned it on yourself: a focus session you start, or a hard-day contract you signed in a calm moment, which is the one setting that can close the escape hatch entirely on your worst days. That's the point of signing it while calm.

Free core. Built by one person. Launched on the App Store in August.