Almost finished.
The sentence gets difficult. Your hand reaches for the easier ending.
PRIVATE iPHONE BETA · BUILT FOR THE REFLEX OPEN
YOUR LIFE IS STILL HAPPENING.
Stay inthe scene.
The reflex open is an unwanted cut: one moment you are here, the next you are inside a feed you never chose. Unloop puts a default 90-second Pause before selected apps, so the Urge can pass—and you can choose what happens next.
ACT I · THE UNWANTED CUT
You were here.
Then you weren’t.
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You only meant to check.
Someone keeps talking while a different world opens in your palm.
You were already tired.
Bedtime moves a little further away, one small open at a time.
THE CUT CAN FEEL INSTANTANEOUS
The problem isn’t that you don’t care.
Unloop calls the trained sequence a Loop: Cue → Urge → Scroll → Relief. Repeated enough, the ending can arrive before you remember choosing it.
“The feed will still be there.
This scene won’t.”
CURRENT BUILDFRAME 014
ACT II · HOLD THE FRAME
Before the feed cuts in,
Unloop holds the frame.
When Unloop’s Shield covers an app you chose, the reflex meets Unloop first. Start the default 90-second Pause and let the Urge move through its whole shape before deciding.
You waited through the Pause. The selected app stays closed.
You opened anyway. It becomes data.
One is a win. The other is a data point. Neither is a verdict.
REAL APP SCREENDEFAULT PAUSE · 90 SEC
ACT III · CHANGE THE ENDING
Each time you stay,
the old ending misses a frame.
An Outlasted Urge is one less repetition of the Loop. Repeated over time, Habit Strength can move down—and the reflex has less of your day to finish for you.
ACT IV · FILE THE DECISION
Choose the rule while the room is quiet.
In the Consent Form, you choose your Pause, Blocked Hours, and protection tier while you can still hear yourself think. When the next Urge arrives, your earlier decision is already in the room.
A plan is not a punishment.
It is your earlier decision, still present later.
ACT V · THE LONG VIEW
The change is quiet.
The curve remembers.
The Lab keeps the record. Progress shows each Loop’s Decay Curve alongside Days On Track, Urges Outlasted, and estimated time reclaimed. As Outlasted Urges stop repeating the old ending, Habit Strength can move down.
LOWER IS BETTER.
Real Unloop screen · Example data from the current development build
PROGRESSLONG VIEW
ACT VI · THE LONG TAKE
Nothing spectacular happened.
You were there
for all of it.
The last five minutes of dinner.
The expression before the words.
The evening that became a memory, not a blur.
EPILOGUE · EXIT THE LOOP
The best ending for Unloop
is becoming less necessary.
Unloop is not trying to make you better at managing a fence forever. It is designed around a defined protocol ending: a lower Habit Strength score and a Loop that can Graduate. Whether the reflex gets quieter is what the private beta is here to learn.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
No suspense.
Just the truth.
REAL UNLOOP SCREENS · EXAMPLE DATA · ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
Is Unloop available now?
Not yet. Unloop is an iPhone experiment in active development. Request early access and we’ll email when a private beta place opens.
Does Unloop actually block apps?
That is what the private beta is built to test on real iPhones. Unloop uses Apple’s Screen Time system to Shield only the apps, categories, or websites you choose.
What if I genuinely need the app?
You choose the rules. Open uses Pauses only. Standard adds Blocked Hours with two-minute exits. Strict has no exits and takes 24 hours—or a Buddy’s key—to unlock.
Is the Pause always 90 seconds?
Ninety seconds is the default. In My Plan, it can be set from 30 to 180 seconds.
What does Unloop record?
Unloop records its own event log: the time, the Loop, whether the Urge was Outlasted or Fired, and how long you held. Apple Screen Time usage itself is never collected. App event and plan data may sync for backup and is not used for tracking.
Does it work on Android?
Not in this experiment. The private beta is for iPhone.
FINAL FRAME · PRIVATE iPHONE BETA
Stay for what
happens next.
Unloop is still an experiment. The private beta will test whether a well-timed Pause can make the reflex weaker in real life.