It is happening now
Ride the wave
Ninety seconds of breathing, in this browser. An urge rises, crests and falls whether you act on it or not.
Start breathing
Block adult content.
Break the habit.
ClearMind is a porn blocker and habit breaker for iPhone and Android. It blocks adult content in every browser and app, helps you ride out an urge in ninety seconds, and comes with a free 28-lesson course for anyone quitting porn or struggling with porn addiction.
- No account
- Nothing leaves your phone
- 28 lessons, free
- iPhone & Android
Start where you are
Where to start
Last night went badly
After a slip
One difficult evening does not erase weeks. What happened, how to stop the spiral, and how to carry on from here.
Read the lesson
You want to stop for good
Start with why
Twenty-eight short lessons, read in order, from the first week to the difficult stretches months in.
See the courseThe one thing worth knowing
An urge is a wave. It rises, it crests, it falls.
It feels bigger than it is from the inside, and it arrives with a sense of emergency. But if you do not feed it, it peaks and begins to fall — usually inside ten to fifteen minutes. You do not have to crush it or obey it. Ninety seconds of slow breathing is long enough for the crest to pass.
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What's here
Everything is free, and none of it needs an account.
The long view
Not a streak you keep. The way your days work now.
Nobody can say what day 438 brings that day 437 did not. What people do describe is a pattern — urges shorter than remembered, then rarer, then a gap opening between the urge and the act.
Day 0
Day zero
Starting is the whole job today. Nothing has to feel different yet.
Day 14
Two weeks
Urges are often less frequent by now, even if they haven't gone. Many people report a clearer head in the mornings.
3 months
Ninety days
A commonly cited threshold — not magic, but long enough that the new routine is usually the default rather than the effort.
3 years
Three years
Three years of Clear Mind days. This isn't a streak you're maintaining — it's simply the way your days work now.
These notes describe what people commonly report, not what will happen to you. Everyone's pattern is different, and none of this is medical advice.
The app
It cannot decide for you. It can make giving in slow.
The moment usually happens on a phone, so ClearMind lives there: a system filter and a private DNS layer across every browser and app, a dial counting your clear days, and a cool-down you chose while calm before anything switches off.
No app on iOS or Android can make anything impossible, and you should be wary of one that says it can. Friction, not a fortress.
- 01A filter at the system levelScreen Time on iOS, the address bar of known browsers on Android — incognito included.
- 02A private DNS layer beneath itA family-safe resolver answers for every app, including the browser inside Instagram or Telegram.
- 03Turning it off takes eight stepsTimed screens, the reason you wrote on day one, and a cool-down you chose while calm.
- 04It notices when something gives wayA layer switched off in Settings gets you a plain notice and a repair screen.
Questions
The things people ask at midnight.
What does the ClearMind app actually do?
It blocks adult content in every browser and app on your phone — Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and the browser inside other apps — using a system-level content filter and a private DNS layer. It counts your clear days. And it makes turning protection off a deliberate eight-step flow with a cool-down you chose in advance, so an impulse usually passes before anything changes.
How the blocking worksHow long does an urge last?
Shorter than it feels. Most urges rise, peak and fall within about ten to fifteen minutes if you do not feed them, and the crest is usually over inside two. People who time their urges almost always find they overestimated. The ninety-second breathing ritual is long enough for the crest to pass; the next ten minutes are for what remains.
Ride the wave — 90 secondsI slipped last night. Have I lost everything?
No. One difficult evening does not erase weeks of progress, and the spiral that follows a slip — shame, “what is the point”, a binge — does more damage than the slip itself. Understand what happened, be honest about it without turning honesty into shame, and continue.
After a SlipIs the blocker impossible to bypass?
No, and no honest app on iOS or Android can claim to be. What ClearMind does is layer several protections so that bypassing one does not bring the others down, notice when a layer is switched off and tell you, and make the deliberate route slow enough that an impulse usually passes first. Friction, not a fortress.
The four layersYou picked up your phone to open this. That’s already the right move.
ClearMind is a self-help resource, not a medical treatment, and not a substitute for professional help. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency services.