Why Escape
Built differently.
On purpose.
Most porn-recovery apps treat recovery like a SaaS funnel — accounts, dashboards, streak shame, push notifications that pull you back to a leaderboard. Escape was built by people who'd already tried those apps and didn't want to be there at 11pm. Here's what's different.
Most recovery apps
Escape
Account required
Email + password. Often phone number.
None. Never. There's nothing to log into.
Where your data lives
A server. Your streak, your urges, sometimes your name and email — all of it on someone else's database.
Your phone. The iOS app keeps everything on-device. Nothing about you leaves.
Course library
Locked behind a subscription. You see the titles. You don't see the content.
27 courses, 205 lessons — readable on this site, right now, no install. Read any of them →
Practice rituals
Available in the app only. Try-before-buy is a screenshot.
Seven rituals run in your browser, right now. 90-second urge ritual · The Mirror · The 11pm Room · Spot the Lie · Spot the Bro · Today's 5 · Honest Streak.
Streak system
One miss resets you to zero. Often public. Often gamified with badges.
Forgiving. One miss pauses the flame; two consecutive resets it. No leaderboard. Your streak is your record, not a rating.
Notifications
Frequent. Some "You're on day 4! Don't break your streak!" — designed to drag you back into the app.
Capped at two per day. Opt-in. Two channels only — Daily and Weekly Insights. We never use guilt.
Site blocking
Some block at the DNS level (which breaks legitimate sites). Some require an MDM profile (which gives the app full control of your phone).
A real Safari content blocker — the same API Apple ships for ad blockers. 11,868 domains. No DNS rewriting, no MDM profile, no proxy server.
App blocking
Most don't offer this. The few that do hide it behind opaque "premium" tiers or shame-based weekly emails.
Pick any iOS apps to block — TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, X, Reddit, YouTube, anything. Tap a blocked app and a quiet recovery screen loads instead of the feed. Full guide →
Cancellation
Buried inside the app. Some require email-support tickets to cancel.
Cancel directly from iOS Settings → Subscriptions, three taps. Apple handles billing — we never see your card.
The honest part
None of this means Escape is right for everyone. If you want a coach, we don't have one. If you want a community forum, we don't have one. If you want a leaderboard, we won't build one.
What we do have: a Safari blocker that just works, app blocking for the apps that pull you in, a 90-second ritual for the moment that actually decides the night, and a quiet library of writing for the slow arc back. If that's the right shape, we're here.
