Breathe before you scroll
Pick the apps you want to slow down. Open one and Friction Frog asks for a short breathing exercise first; you get a few minutes, then it locks again. Just enough friction to break the autopilot.
Friction Frog
Your phone, but boring on purpose.
Friction Frog puts one calm breath between you and the apps that eat your day, then turns the tempting ones grayscale. Free, forever.
One calm breath before the apps that eat your day, then grayscale for the tempting ones.
Free forever · No ads · No dark patterns · iPhone · iOS 18.4+ 🐸
You're not weak for losing hours to your phone. Billion-dollar teams engineered it to be exactly that hard to put down, and a little friction beats raw willpower every time.
What it does
A gentle nudge, not a lecture
Three small changes that quietly break the autopilot.
Grayscale, your way
Color is what makes the scroll hard to quit. Go full-phone grayscale with color exceptions for the apps you need (Photos, Camera, Maps), or keep color and gray out only the worst offenders. No more triple-tapping a shortcut you forget to switch back.
Limits that fit you
Set your own time window per app. One app's "quick check" might be 1 minute, another's 30. You decide.
How it works
Set it up once. Feel it all day.
1
Pick your apps
Choose the ones that quietly eat your time.
2
Breathe to unlock
One calm breath stands between you and the scroll, so you scroll less.
3
Go grayscale
Drain the color so the bright, shiny stuff loses its grip.
Built on Apple's Screen Time / Family Controls, and it walks you through the grayscale Shortcuts setup.
See it
One breath, then you're in.
Open a blocked app and the frog asks for a short breathing exercise first. That tiny pause is usually enough to remember you didn't actually want to open it.
Why Friction Frog
Built to actually help, not to hook you
Truly free
Multi-app blocking and every grayscale feature are free forever. No paywall on the part that helps.
Reliable
Built to just work, every time. No mystery failures, no easy bypasses.
On your side
No ads, no dark patterns. The business isn't built on keeping you hooked, kind of the opposite.
Get a little of your day back.