Life’s too good to scroll past.
Gua blocks the apps that eat your days and helps you set up an accountability buddy to make sure you keep your commitment to yourself.
Get your evenings back. Be where your feet are.
Things that beat the feed
A quick gut-check
The scroll adds up.
Gua isn’t about less phone. It’s about more life.
How Gua works
Commitment, with teeth.
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01 Make a commitment
Pick the apps, sites and hours you’re protecting from yourself. Work mornings, family dinners, whole weekends.
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02 Add lines of defense
A buddy who approves your unblocks. A moment of creativity before you cave. Stack as much friction as you need.
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03 Try to break it
Go on — tap unblock. Gua makes you earn it, and nine times out of ten you’ll put the phone back down. That’s the point.
Lines of defense
Breaking a commitment should take effort.
Anyone can tap “unblock.” Gua makes you mean it.
Accountability buddy
Someone you trust approves or declines your bypasses. You’re never alone with the urge.
Create before you consume
Earn the scroll by making something first — write a line, record a voice note, catch a photo — and share it with your buddy.
Anti-circumvention
Changing a commitment runs the same gauntlet — so there’s no way around your commitment to yourself.
Ways to use Gua
Focus sessions — Enter flow state
One tap and the apps you chose go quiet for as long as you decide. Deep work, family dinners, whatever.
Schedules
Block apps and sites on a schedule you set — every workday morning, every dinner. It keeps working even when Gua is closed.
Limits
Give an app a daily or weekly allowance. When it’s spent, the app goes quiet until it resets.
“Create before you consume.”
Gua is a vessel — empty by design. Fill it with your mornings, your work, your people, your life.
Get Gua
Coming to every screen you own.
iOS first. Android and a Chrome extension close behind.
Android
Coming soon
The same guardrails, on Android.
Chrome
Coming soon
Block distracting sites on desktop.