A daily system to quit any addiction, rewire your brain, and become someone you respect. Two products: an app for your phone, and a blocker for the computer that reports to someone you trust.
On your phone
The Forge app
Streak counter, AI coach, and a 90-day plan.
Start free trialFree to start · iPhone
On your computer
Forge Shield
Blocks porn and gambling sites, and tells one person you pick if you turn it off.
See Shield, $7/moChrome, Edge, Brave · billed separately
Forge Shield now works on iPhone. It uses Apple's Screen Time, so it covers Safari and every other browser on your phone.
Adult sites, blocked
Apple's adult website filter, on all day while Shield is on.
Your picks, blocked
Type in any website, or pick apps like shopping or social. All day, nights only, or around your craving time.
A speed bump, not a lock
Turning it off takes a 60 second wait. If you added an accountability partner, they get an email when it's switched off.
Forge never sees which sites you visit or what you block. It stays on your phone. Shield for iPhone is included with Forge Pro. It's separate from Forge Shield for desktop browsers, which is its own product.
They are separate. You can buy either one on its own, or both. Buying one never includes the other.
| Feature | Forge the app | Forge Shield for desktop browsers |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Your iPhone | Your computer's browser |
| What it does | Counts your streak, coaches you through cravings, walks you through a 90-day plan. Pro also blocks adult sites and the apps you pick on your iPhone. | Blocks porn and gambling sites, and emails one person you choose if you switch it off |
| Best if | You want to track progress and have help at 2am | You want it to be harder to open the site in the first place |
| Price | Free to start, then from $7.50/month | $7/month, or $60/year |
| Billed by | Apple, through the App Store | Us, through Stripe |
| Cancel in | iPhone Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions | Your Forge account page, two clicks |
No account needed to buy Shield. You pay first and pick a password afterwards.
Modern stimuli were engineered to capture you, vapes, feeds, sugar, slots, screens. Your dopamine baseline has been slowly destroyed by constant micro-hits. Quitting isn't a willpower problem. It's a rewire problem.
Vice Grip walks you through every phase. Symptoms explained. Cravings expected. Day by day. The grid below is what it looks like on day 23.
One subscription. Every tool. No hidden upgrades.
Daily missions, symptom education, fully customizable. The structured protocol for any quit.
Private. Calibrated to your specific addiction. Available the second a craving hits.
Multiple streaks at once. Milestone celebrations. Streak Saves when life happens.
Mood, clarity, cravings, sleep, visualized over 14 and 90 days. Proof your brain is rewiring.
Local-first journaling with prompt library, mood tagging, and optional AI reflection.
Add anyone, sponsor, friend, sibling. They see streaks and resets, never your journal.
30 days forged. Day 90 unlocked. Real badges for real progress, share-worthy for IG Stories.
Set what you used to spend weekly. See the dollar number grow every clean day.
Same brain. Different connections. That's not motivational copy, it's neurogenesis. Receptors regrow. Focus returns. Sleep deepens.
Numb. Foggy. Sleep doesn't restore. Hobbies feel pointless. Cravings own every quiet moment.
Clear. Rested. Reading a full page again. Cravings rare and brief. You don't recognize the person who started.
"Day 47 off alcohol. The Craving SOS button has saved me more times than I can count. I open it, do the breathing exercise, and by the time the timer ends the urge has passed. Nothing else has come close."
"I've tried 4 apps to quit porn over 3 years. Forge is the only one that actually coaches you through the urge instead of just tracking the days. The AI knows what phase you're in and adjusts. It's different."
"90 days smoke-free. I've been here before and always relapsed around day 30. The daily missions and the Vice Grip plan kept me moving through it. The AI coach on day 3 was exactly what I needed to hear."
"Quit weed after 8 years. The streak timer is obsessive in the best way. I check it constantly. Seeing 23 days, 14 hours, 37 minutes made it impossible to throw away. Milestone unlocks kept me going week to week."
"I added my wife as an accountability partner. Knowing she'd get a notification if I reset kept me honest on nights I would have caved. 61 days off gambling. First time I've made it past a month."
"Every other app just counted days. Forge actually coaches. Week 1 coaching is different from week 4 coaching. When I relapsed at day 18 it didn't make me feel like a failure, the comeback flow got me right back on track."
7-day free trial on every plan. Cancel anytime in Settings.
Subscription auto-renews until cancelled. Manage and cancel anytime in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Full terms and privacy.
The app is on your phone. Some things don't happen on your phone. Forge Desktop is a separate subscription for the computer.
Forge Shield · $7/month
Blocks adult and gambling sites in your browser, and emails one person you choose with what was blocked, including if you remove it. They see site names only, never your searches.
Check-in calls · $9/month
An automated call asking how you're doing, answered with your keypad. Nothing is recorded. Not dialling yet, the phone system isn't switched on.
No account needed. Private. Works on any device.
Enter your quit date and addiction, see exactly what phase you're in, what symptoms to expect, and when you'll feel better.
See how much money you've saved since quitting. Enter your daily spend and days clean, instant results for 12 addictions.
A live counter in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. See your current milestone and what comes next.
Every major addiction and recovery stat from NIDA, SAMHSA, and CDC. All cited, all in one place.
Alcohol, nicotine, vaping, cannabis, pornography, gambling, gaming, sugar, social media, and custom user-defined vices. Vice Grip content and AI Coach context adapt per addiction so the language matches what you're actually facing.
Yes. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings before the trial ends and you won't be charged.
Your journal is local-first, entries stay on your device unless you opt into cloud sync. Daily check-ins and streak data sync to Firebase so widgets and the AI coach work, but they're encrypted in transit and access-controlled per user. We never sell data and don't run ads.
No. Partners see your active streak count and get a notification if your streak resets, with whatever optional note you choose to send. Journal, urge ratings, mood scores, and coach conversations are private to you.
No. Forge is a peer support and recovery tracking tool, not medical care. If you're in crisis, call or text 988 (US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357 (free, 24/7).
Not yet. iPhone only for now (iOS 16+). Android is on the roadmap, email [email protected] to be notified when it ships.
Free for 7 days. iPhone, iOS 16+.