Everything you need to take back control
Groundr makes Grindr impossible to open during the moments you choose, helps you understand what pulls you back, and shows you the progress you're making. Everything here exists for one thing: getting your time and your headspace back.
Grindr won't open. You decide when.
Set your rules once: evenings, weekends, a daily limit, or all the time. From then on, Grindr simply won't open during those moments, even on the days your willpower is gone.
- Block by time of day (like 8pm to midnight)
- Or set a daily limit (like 30 minutes a day)
- Ready-made setups: Weekend Detox, Night Mode, Work Focus
- Built on your phone's own controls, very hard to bypass
The moment of temptation, handled
When you try to open Grindr anyway, you don't just hit a wall. Groundr walks you through the urge: breathe, remember why you started, do something else. This is where the cycle actually breaks.
- A guided breathing exercise
- Your own reasons for quitting, shown back to you at the right moment
- Concrete alternatives: call a friend, step outside, read
- A reminder of where this session would really lead
Understand why you open it
Thirty seconds a day: how was today, what triggered you, did you resist. After a week you see your pattern. After a month you know exactly when you're vulnerable, and you can set your blocking around it.
- Rate your day, from calm to very hard
- Name the trigger: boredom, loneliness, the need for validation
- Note the context: home alone, at work, out with friends
- See your patterns emerge week after week
Days that add up
Every day you don't give in gets counted. Watch your run of Grindr-free days grow, and see in black and white that you're doing better than last month.
- Your current run and your personal record
- Your history: victories, relapses, milestones
- A heads-up before your run resets
- Encouragement that matches where you are
Milestones worth reaching
Hours won back, urges resisted, weeks that held: each milestone is marked. Small wins, made visible, are what carry you through the harder stretches.
- Six stages, from Awakening to Accomplished
- Milestones for time won back from Grindr
- Milestones for temptations overcome
- A secret reward for one year Grindr-free
Understand what you're up against
Twenty-plus short reads on why Grindr is so hard to put down: what it does to your brain, why deleting never works, and what actually helps.
- Why the app feels impossible to quit
- The delete-reinstall cycle, explained
- How the apps amplify social anxiety
- Strategies that actually work, backed by research
Your month at a glance
A calendar of your good and hard days, the hours Grindr stayed shut, and the moments you're most at risk. You'll know your own patterns better than the app knows you.
- A day-by-day calendar of your month
- Hours of blocking, added up
- Your most frequent triggers and risky hours
A letter about your month
Once a month, Groundr turns your daily notes into a short written reflection: what got harder, what got easier, what shifted. Like a debrief with someone who's been paying attention. You come out knowing exactly where to adjust your rules.
- A written summary of your month, in plain words
- Your dominant trigger and your riskiest hour
- How your month compares with the goal you set
- Written for you, never at you
- Private: your entries stay yours
Your reasons, at the right moment
Write down why you're doing this: your health, your relationships, your self-respect. Groundr shows your own words back to you exactly when the urge hits.
- Your reasons, organized by what matters: health, relationships, self-esteem
- Shown on the blocking screen, when it counts
- Gentle reminders, on your schedule
Keep reading
Features are only part of the picture. These guides walk you through the why and the how:
Ready to take back control?
Take your first step today. Private. No judgment.