The app blocker that gets you to sleep on time.
Pick the bedtime you keep meaning to keep. An hour before it, WindDown blocks social media, video, games, and every other distraction on your iPhone until morning. Your reading, audiobook, and podcast apps stay open. The scroll ends, the chapter begins, and you are asleep when you wanted to be.
It's wind-down time.
Your book is waiting. This app is paused until morning.
What a blocked app shows after bedtime.
How it works
An alarm clock forces you out of bed in the morning. WindDown does the opposite: it puts your phone to bed first, so you actually fall asleep at your bedtime.
Pick your bedtime
Choose the time you want to be asleep, a wake time, and how long you want to wind down. One schedule, every night, including the ones that cross midnight.
Choose what stays open
Kindle, Audible, Libby, Books, your podcast app. You pick the allowlist with Apple's own Screen Time picker. Everything else gets shielded when wind-down starts.
Fall asleep on time
With nothing left to scroll, sleep comes at the hour you picked. Make it to morning without breaking the shield and your streak grows. Shields lift on their own at your wake time.
Need your apps back before morning? That's the Gate.
The Gate is the only way to unblock your apps early: a slow, full-screen series of questions about why you want back in. You can always get through it, but you cannot tap through it mindlessly.
Catch yourself in an honest answer and your streak survives. WindDown opens your book instead and remembers what almost pulled you back in.
Pricing
One plan, everything included. Try it free for 7 days.
WindDown
- The nightly shield
- The Gate
- Streaks, history, and calendar
- Insights: what pulls you back in after bedtime
- Different bedtimes for weekends
- Strict mode
- Backup and restore
Billed through the App Store. Cancel anytime in your subscription settings.