Urge surfing, for your phone

Ride the urge.
Put the phone down.

The craving to scroll rises, peaks, and passes, usually in under two minutes. Urge Surf helps you ride it out, notice what set it off, and step away.

Ride out the urge to scroll in under two minutes, then put the phone down.

The app that wants you to use it less. Built on urge surfing, the CBT technique clinicians use for cravings.
Urge Surf settle screen
The science

A craving is a wave. Outlast it.

2 min

How long an urge takes to rise, peak, and pass when you don't feed it.

Urge surfing, Dr. Alan Marlatt
23 min

The focus you lose to a single "quick check." That's the real price of one glance.

Dr. Gloria Mark, UC Irvine
2,617 taps

The average person's daily phone count. The urge is a reflex, so we work on the reflex.

dscout, 2016
Own the urge

A 60-second surf, not a 60-second timer.

When the pull hits, you ride it out. Settle, breathe through it, and watch it pass. It's real urge-surfing psychology, and each wave you ride makes the next one quieter.

Surf timer
Step away
Off the phone

End every urge somewhere real.

The moment the urge passes, Urge Surf points you off the screen toward one real thing you'd rather do, like a walk, some fresh air, or a page of a book. Most blockers skip that part.

A plan that fits you

Protect your mornings, focus, and nights.

Start from a ready-made template, or build your own, then block the apps that pull you in on the days and hours you choose.

Choose a plan template
Your live plan
Why it's different

We own the urge

No other app does anything with that moment. We make it the whole point.

Why, not how much

We show you the feeling behind the scroll, not a screen-time number that just makes you feel bad.

It ends off the phone

Most blockers keep you managing your phone inside your phone. We get you out.

Why Urge Surf is different

Take your attention back.

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No account, no servers. Everything stays on your device.