Guides and comparisons

Everything the site explains, on one page. The guides answer “how do I block”; the comparisons answer “and compared with what I already use”.

Block, reduce

One page per app, and one for the underlying question. Each says what the system does, where it gives, and how Tempo goes about it.

• Block appsThe complete walkthrough, iPhone and Android, and why the system’s own limits don’t hold.
• Block TikTokThree step-by-step methods — Screen Time, Digital Wellbeing, Tempo — and why TikTok’s own reminders don’t hold.
• Block InstagramThree step-by-step methods, the “Ignore Limit” button that gets around them, and what a block takes with it.
• Block YouTubeApp under lock, website open: the steps to block one, the other or both, without losing what’s useful.
• Block SnapchatStreaks, the evening window, and the steps to shut the app without losing your friends.
• Block X (Twitter)The app and x.com, which is the real loophole, with the steps for both.
• Block RedditThree doors — the app, the website, third-party clients — and how to shut them all.
• Block NetflixTurn off autoplay first, then shut the app on the phone, one episode at a time.
• Block gamesBlock the whole category, future games included, and why Android can’t.
• Reduce screen timeWhy reminders fail, and the one rule that held for us: screen time is paid for in movement.
• Stop ignoring Screen Time limitsThe button can’t be removed. What actually locks it, in which case, and what stays open.
• Screen Time not workingSeven causes in the order to check them, the forgotten toggle first, Apple’s reset last.

Alternatives

What each blocker does well, who it suits, and what Tempo does differently. No prices: they change too fast for a page.

• Opal alternativeThe premium session-based blocker, its strengths, and what it never asks in exchange.
• Jomo alternativeFive kinds of rules on iPhone and Mac, including routines that pay in steps: where the difference with a single key lies.
• Steppin alternativeThe same idea, steps for screen time: what differs in where credit comes from and how exactly it’s counted.
• one sec alternativeA breath before every open: gentle friction, and why it wears off.
• Forest alternativePlant a tree to stay focused: the focus session, against a standing block.
• Freedom alternativeA block synced across all your devices, against a key that isn’t the clock.
• ScreenZen alternativePauses and a number of opens per day: the soft limit, and where it gives.
• Brick alternativeA physical object to tap to unblock: what a device does better than an app, and the reverse.
• ClearSpace alternativeBreathe, then push-ups in front of the screen: effort on demand, against effort already done elsewhere.
• Opal vs JomoThe two most compared: what reopens the app, strict mode, walking. A verdict per profile.