Focus
Long stretches of real work
Every trip to a feed breaks your focus, and getting back into the problem takes time. Fewer escapes means longer blocks of deep work, and more shipped by Friday: code, videos, chapters, sales calls.
For founders, creators and developers
Scroll less. Build more.
Unplug gives every day a score out of 100. You start at 100 each morning, and every minute on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok costs points, live, on your iPhone and Mac. Nothing gets blocked: you see the price, and the hours go back to your projects.
No credit card · works on iPhone and Mac
Your project isn’t stuck. Your attention is.
Five minutes of YouTube between two tasks. A quick Instagram check that lasts forty. None of it feels like much, until evening comes and the thing you meant to build hasn’t moved.
You’ve tried blockers. You know how it ends.
Screen Time limits, Opal, one sec: at first, the block screen helps. Then you learn to walk right past it.
- Week 1“Ignore Limit”One tap, fifteen more minutes. Then another.
- Week 2The limit goes from 1h to 2h“Just for today.” It never comes back down.
- Week 3You switch it all offThe app stays installed. The blocker blocks nothing.
Unplug blocks nothing. It keeps score.
Every morning you start at 100. Every slip costs points, live, on your iPhone and your Mac. One number tells you at a glance where your attention went today.
Four pillars, one score
- Distractionup to −40Minutes on off-limits apps and sites
- Compulsionup to −15Every time you open one
- Environmentup to −15iPhone in color, off-limits apps still installed
- Integrity−10Screen Time access revoked
What things cost
30 min of YouTubeOff-limits≈ −9
Opening InstagramEvery reflex open counts≈ −1
30 min of WhatsAppLimited: 3 times cheaper≈ −3- ◐iPhone in color all dayGrayscale saves you 10 points−10
Approximate costs, starting from 100. The first minutes cost the most: “just five minutes” is exactly what the score is built to catch.
Bad day? Tomorrow you’re back to 100. A score, not a streak: nothing to break, no guilt piling up.
Fewer escapes. More done.
The score is only the means. Here’s what it’s for.
Peace of mind
A quieter head
Less of that itch to check. Evenings with the phone face down, no feed before sleep. And the feeling, again, that your attention belongs to you.
Try free for 14 days
No credit card · works on iPhone and Mac
Measured where you actually lose time.
iPhone, Mac and browser add up to a single number, updated as your day goes.
iPhone
Through Apple’s Screen Time API: minutes and opens on every listed app, your score in a widget, and points lost the moment they happen.
Mac
A menu-bar app that sees the app in front and the site in your active tab. Quit it, and a watchdog relaunches it.
Browser extension (optional)
On YouTube, it tells the video you’re watching from the music playing while you work. Focus music barely costs a thing.
And on the web: your score and history from any browser, plus a public link if you want friends to keep you honest.
A wall, or a mirror.
A blocker builds a wall, and sooner or later you climb it. Unplug holds up a mirror: nothing to climb, just a number you want to see go up.
| Criterion | App blockers | Unplug |
|---|---|---|
| How it works | A screen blocks access | A score measures and rates |
| After a few weeks | “Ignore Limit”, then switch it all off | Nothing to get around: cheating costs points |
| iPhone and Mac | Often two separate tools | One number, in real time |
| Bad day | Streak back to zero | Tomorrow, you’re back to 100 |
Blockers do work for the first few weeks. Nothing stops you from keeping one alongside Unplug.
Cheating costs points. And it shows.
Turning off a sensor costs points or marks your day incomplete. And anyone who follows your score sees it too.
You quit the Mac app
The watchdog relaunches it, and the time your Mac was awake without tracking gets counted.
CountedYou revoke permission
Turn off Screen Time access or leave an iPhone that’s on but silent: it shows, and it costs.
PenaltyIt shows on your share page
Your public link shows whether every device is reporting, next to your score. Friends see a gap as clearly as you do.
VisibleIt counts minutes. It doesn’t read over your shoulder.
Unplug measures where your time goes, not the content of what you do.
What’s measured
- Time and opens on the apps and sites in the list
- On Mac, the app in front and the site in the active tab
- Whether grayscale is on, and whether your devices are still reporting
- With the optional extension, on YouTube only: the title and type of the video
What never is
- The content of your messages, pages and files
- What you type, screenshots, your location
- Your data sold or used for ads
- Anything made public without your consent
You can delete your account and all your data at any time, from your account page. Read the privacy policy
Three steps, and you’re in.
Start your free trial
An email is all it takes. No credit card, so nothing to cancel.
Install the apps
Allow Screen Time on your iPhone, add the menu-bar app on your Mac. The list of distracting apps is ready: nothing to set up.
Live your day
You start at 100. Glance at the widget or the menu bar when temptation hits. Tomorrow, start over.
Pricing
Free for 14 days
No credit card. Then one subscription for iPhone, Mac and web.
Best price · −37%
Yearly
$59.99/year
just $5 a month
Monthly
$7.99/month
cancel anytime
- Your live score on iPhone, Mac and the web
- The list of distracting apps, ready on day one
- iPhone and Mac anti-cheat
- History and a public share link
- Optional YouTube extension
No card during the trial, so no surprise charge. Secure payment by Stripe, cancel anytime.
You’re probably wondering
If nothing’s blocked, won’t I just keep scrolling?
Maybe on day one. Then you’ll see your score at 41 and every point you lost. You learn to ignore a block screen. A number dropping in real time is much harder to ignore. And nothing stops you from keeping a blocker too.
I need my Mac and my phone for work.
Only the apps in the list count: social networks, video and feeds (off-limits), messaging (limited, 3 times cheaper). Your code editor, design tools, docs and email cost nothing.
What if I cheat: quit the app, revoke permission?
Try it. The watchdog relaunches the Mac app, untracked time gets counted, and revoking Screen Time access on your iPhone costs points. And all of it shows on your share page.
What about my privacy?
Unplug measures time per app and per site, never the content of your messages, pages or files. Nothing is public unless you share it, and you can delete your account and all your data at any time.
Do I need both an iPhone and a Mac?
No. Unplug works with just an iPhone, just a Mac, or both (the most complete). One subscription covers all your devices, and your score is on the web too.
What happens after the 14 days?
No card was asked, so nothing gets charged. If you want to keep your score, you pick monthly ($7.99) or yearly ($59.99, so $5 a month), paid securely through Stripe.
Isn’t a score out of 100 a bit childish?
It’s the same idea as a sleep or recovery score: one number you read in a second, and check because you want it to go up.
What if I have a bad day?
Tomorrow, you’re back to 100. No streak reset, no guilt piling up.
Android? Windows?
Not for now: Unplug measures on iPhone and Mac. Your score can be checked from any browser.
Who makes Unplug?
Gaëtan, an independent French developer. He built Unplug for his own screen habits first, and uses it every day.
Tomorrow morning, you start at 100.
Fourteen days to see how much time comes back, and what you build with it.
Try free for 14 daysNo credit card · iPhone · Mac · Web