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24 alternatives to Stop It – an iOS app using visual therapy to help break habits
I’m an indie dev and recently launched a small iOS app called Stop It. It’s designed to support people trying to quit or reduce habits like smoking, snus, sugar, or social media. The app uses bilateral visual stimulation — moving patterns inspired by EMDR therapy — to help interrupt the craving cycle and bring a moment of calm.
Stop It is an iOS app that helps users quit or reduce habits like smoking, snus, sugar, and social media use. It employs bilateral visual stimulation—moving patterns based on EMDR therapy—to interrupt cravings and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Sugarless▲81Quit your sugar habit with a therapy-inspired iOS app
2022 · sugarlessapp.com · its alternatives →
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An app for building good habits and breaking bad ones
2024 · atoms.jamesclear.com · its alternatives →
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Track your consistency with cool grids
2023 · habitkit.app · its alternatives →
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Quit Genius▲171Quit smoking with personalised and proven therapy 🚭
2017 · pelagohealth.com · its alternatives →
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It's not like any other app. I have done months of research to my quit porn addiction. This app plays with psychology where our main motive is to motivate and distract, motivate the user to stay on track and distract his mind from getting back to the addiction
2025 · unlustapp.com · its alternatives →
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I made Sober not Sorry, a clean and simple iOS tracker to help quit bad habits — alcohol, smoking, or anything else. Open it → log your start date → it tracks your streak. No ads, no sign-up, no subscriptions. I built it because most “sober” apps felt cluttered or too motivational. This one just quietly tracks progress and stays out of the way. Would love feedback — especially from people who use streak or sobriety trackers.
2025 · sobernotsorry.app · its alternatives →
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Anonymous Health▲318Overcome addictions and unwanted habits
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Your calmer, digital detox experience on iPhone
Jan 2026 · minimalistphone.com · its alternatives →
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Done▲355Build habits and track your progress multiple times a day 📊✅
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenBreak▲125Hi HN, I built ScreenBreak after realizing that most app blockers failed in practice. “Hard blocks” were too rigid — I either locked myself out entirely or tapped Ignore Limit and kept scrolling. There was no useful middle state. In reality, people still need to open apps like TikTok or Instagram for specific tasks: looking something up, replying to someone, checking updates, etc. The problem isn’t intentional use; it’s the unplanned, unconscious scrolling that follows. I wanted a system that interrupts the impulse without fully preventing access. ScreenBreak uses soft blocking plus…
Dec 2025 · screenbreak.app · its alternatives →
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Tacker that will help you break addiction and bad habits
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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HabitStop▲83Hold yourself accountable to break bad habits 💪
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Track your sober streaks and count days since you started.
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · stopping.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, It's super hard to quit addicting apps. Existing solutions are non-binding, and therefore, require constant self-discipline and vigilance to be effective. Which is ironic, considering the problem we are trying to solve, is a lack of self-discipline. There exists a physical solution to this problem, in the form of a time-locked safe[1]. It’s effective for reducing app usage, but it's cumbersome and inconvenient. Fundamentally, what these lock-boxes do is impose a real-world cost on breaking your commitment. It’s not impossible to break your commitment, but it would require destroying…
2023 · discipline.io · its alternatives →
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I built an iOS app called HabitCrush to help me (and hopefully others) quit bad habits (like procrastination, porn, junk food, or over-eating..) It is like an inverse habit tracker. The idea is simple: name the bad habit, and every day you say no to the bad habit you get the satisfaction of “crushing” it in app. As a Bonus, each day you succeed, you get a unique gemstone as a small symbol of progress. The gemstone is computed on the day timestamp so it is unique and never comes back. Would love feedback especially on the approach and whether the daily gemstone mechanic feels useful or…
2025 · habitcrush.app · its alternatives →
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