Quit porn
Quit porn without fighting every craving alone.
The urge never shows up when you're at your strongest. It waits for the hour when you're tired, alone, and telling yourself just this once.
Unhooked is a quit porn app with a 15-minute urge timer, a website blocker and an AI recovery coach. Track your streak privately, get through cravings as they happen, and log a relapse without losing everything you've built.
Why it feels impossible
The urge is loud because it's expecting something.
A craving isn't really a decision you're losing. It's anticipation — your brain reacting to a familiar cue and predicting a reward it has learned to expect. That's why it can arrive fully formed, out of nowhere, after a week of feeling fine.
It's also why arguing with it rarely works. You can't reason with anticipation while it's peaking, any more than you can talk yourself out of being hungry. What you can do is not act on it for long enough that the prediction goes unmet and the wave comes down.
Urges are commonly described as peaking and passing within roughly fifteen to twenty minutes. You don't have to beat the habit for the rest of your life tonight. You have to get to the other side of one wave.
The framework
How to quit porn, step by step.
None of this is clever, and none of it depends on being unusually disciplined. It's the sequence that keeps showing up in people who actually get free of it — strategy first, then the tools that run each part.
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Identify your triggers
Almost nobody is triggered at random. It's a time of day, a room, a device, an emotional state — bored, stressed, lonely, rejected, wide awake at 1am. Track a week of urges and the pattern usually names itself, and a trigger you can name is one you can plan around.
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Make access harder
Set up blocking while it's easy and costs you nothing, not at the moment you need it. The point isn't to make it impossible — on a device you control, nothing is. The point is to add enough delay that the urge has to survive the wait, and most don't.
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Learn to ride out the craving
The skill that matters most is doing nothing for fifteen minutes. Urges are commonly described as peaking and passing in that window when you don't act on them, so the job is never to win forever — only to still be here when this one has crested.
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Replace the habit, don't just delete it
The habit was doing a job: getting you to sleep, filling dead time, taking the edge off a bad day. Remove it and the job goes unfilled, which is why willpower-only attempts collapse in week two. Decide in advance what takes its place at the hour it usually happened.
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Track your progress
Quitting is invisible — the reward for a good week is the absence of a bad one. A counter that goes up turns that absence into something you can see, and makes the cost of a slip concrete at the moment you're deciding.
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Learn from a relapse instead of restarting from shame
Log what happened and what preceded it. A relapse tells you which specific situation you weren't ready for, which is genuinely useful information. Treating it as proof that you're incapable is not, and it's the thing that turns one night into a lost month.
Porn cravings
What to do when you get a porn craving.
The goal isn't to win an argument with yourself. It's to still be here in fifteen minutes.
- 1
Start the timer before you negotiate
Open Craving Mode first, think second. The negotiation is the urge talking, and it gets much less convincing once a countdown is running.
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Change your physical situation
Leave the room. Cravings are strongly tied to place, posture and time of day — moving your body breaks part of the cue before you've done anything else.
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Read your own reason
The sentence you wrote on day one appears on the craving screen. It's there because past-you was thinking clearly and present-you isn't.
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Look at what's at stake
Your streak and what you'd be giving up sit on the same screen. Not to shame you — to make the trade visible while it's still abstract.
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Say it out loud to the coach
Describing what's happening changes it. Tell the coach what triggered this and what you're about to do, and it will talk you through the next few minutes.
Privacy
No feed, no followers, nobody watching.
This is the part most people want to know first. Unhooked has no social feed, no friends list, no public profile and no leaderboard. There is nothing to accidentally share and nobody to be seen by.
Your streak, your reason for quitting and your conversations with the coach are yours. The widgets show a number, not a category — a lock screen that says how many days you're on doesn't announce what you quit.
See the privacy policy for exactly what's collected and why.
Why an app
Why use an app to quit porn?
Because the hard moments are unscheduled, private, and usually happen when nobody is available. A craving at 1am is not a problem you can solve by booking something for Thursday, and it's rarely a moment you feel like explaining to a person you know.
An app is the one form of support that's already in your pocket at the exact minute the decision gets made. Unhooked puts the blocking, the timer, the streak and someone to talk to behind a single tap, so the gap between "I'm struggling" and "I'm doing something about it" is a couple of seconds rather than a couple of days.
It also removes the part most people find hardest: you don't have to tell anyone. There's no meeting, no accountability partner you have to disappoint, and no public profile — just a private record of what you're doing and tools for the moments that decide it.
What's in it
Built for this specific fight.
Website Shield
Blocking on your device, with a deliberate wait before it can be switched off — so a two-second decision can't undo it.
Craving Mode
A countdown, a breathing circle, your reason and your streak, all on one screen when it matters.
A coach at any hour
Message the coach mid-urge or after a relapse. It answers, and it doesn't moralise.
A private streak
Days, best streak and total clean days — visible to you, on your lock screen if you want, and to nobody else.
Relapse logging
Record what happened and what led to it. The pattern is usually clearer than you expect after a few entries.
Milestones
Day 1, day 7, day 30, day 90 and beyond, each one marked when you reach it.
Questions about quitting porn
Does Unhooked block websites?
Yes. The Website Shield blocks adult sites on your device, and turning it off requires a wait rather than a password you'd type without thinking. It won't make a relapse impossible — nothing on a phone you control can — but it makes the easy path slow, and slow is usually enough.
Is it private?
There's no social feed, no friends and no public profile. Your streak, your reason and your coach conversations are visible only to you.
What happens if I relapse?
You log it and keep going. Unhooked keeps your total days, your best streak and every comeback — resetting the counter doesn't erase the history. What predicts long-term success is how fast you restart, not whether you ever slipped.
I've relapsed dozens of times. Is there any point?
Repeated attempts are the normal shape of quitting something, not a sign it won't work. Each attempt usually teaches you which specific situation you're not ready for yet — which is exactly the thing worth tracking.
Does it work on Android?
Yes. Unhooked is available on both iPhone and Android, with the same modules, coach and craving tools on each.
How do I stop watching porn?
In outline: work out what triggers you, put blocking in the way before you need it, learn to wait out cravings rather than fight them, decide what replaces the habit at the hour it usually happened, track your progress so it's visible, and treat a relapse as information instead of a verdict. The framework above walks through each step.
How do I deal with porn cravings?
Don't negotiate with it — start a timer first and think second, then change your physical situation so the cue is broken. Urges are commonly described as peaking and passing within about fifteen to twenty minutes when you don't act on them, so the immediate goal is getting to the other side of one wave, not settling the whole question tonight.
How long does it take to quit porn?
There's no honest single number, and anyone quoting one is guessing. Research on habit formation shows it varies enormously between people and behaviours. A more useful expectation: the first couple of weeks are mostly about getting through cravings, and the months after are about the new default becoming unremarkable. Urges usually get less frequent and less intense over that period rather than stopping abruptly.
How do I prevent a relapse?
Most relapses are predictable in hindsight — same hour, same mood, same situation. So the work happens before the moment: keep blocking on, know which situations are risky for you, and have something specific planned for them. Watch for feeling cured, too; a stretch of easy weeks is when people relax their guard and it's a common point for streaks to end.
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