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Win the hours back.

Practical guides on blocking apps and websites, fixing the limits that never hold, and making screens less magnetic - on iPhone and Mac.

What's new in bloq 1.0.9 for Mac

Route each Chrome profile's audio to its own device, set a volume per app, and route Safari. Bloq Output now runs on its own.

Bloq Output sends any app's audio to any device, with no virtual driver. Plus what bloq already replaces, priced out.

Sign-in moved to the end of setup so you see the app first, Manage Subscription arrives in Settings, and the Mac app is now just called bloq.

Screen Time, the hosts file, extensions, and the system-wide block that covers Safari, Chrome and Arc at once - where each one leaks.

Why quitting, hiding and logging out never hold, what Screen Time can actually do, and how to make a block stick.

The Ignore button, the website side door, the silent misfires - and the three properties an enforceable limit needs.

Trigger audits, friction, grayscale, time-boxed news, and the blocks that don't take no for an answer.

How to turn your iPhone and Mac gray, why it flattens the feed's pull, and how to schedule gray evenings automatically.

Every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds - and how to make the breaks take themselves.

Create your first block list and start a focus session, step by step.

What Super Strict Mode locks, what it refuses to unlock, and when to use it.