Questions, answered straight.
What is Habit Interrupt?
An iPhone app that rings at the moment your habit usually fires and plays back your own reasons — recorded in your own voice on a day your head was clear. Ten seconds. Then a real decision, either way.
Does it block anything?
No. Nothing is blocked, locked, or taken away. This isn't a screen-time app — it's for real-world habits: the 5pm drink, the drive-thru, the vape. The only thing it interrupts is autopilot.
Is this therapy?
No. Habit Interrupt is a mindfulness tool. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything, and it's not a substitute for professional care. If what you're facing feels bigger than a habit, that deserves more than an app — talk to a qualified medical professional.
How does it know when my habit happens?
You tell it. During setup you name the moments — days and time windows when the habit usually hits — and it rings inside them, with a little unpredictability on purpose (autopilot hates surprises). For moments that don't keep a schedule, there's a check-in you can trigger yourself from your home screen.
What happens when it rings?
Your own face, your own voice, your own reasons — then two buttons. One logs that you passed, one logs that you're proceeding. Both are treated as decisions, because both are.
What if I choose the habit anyway?
Then you chose it — consciously, which is the entire point. It's logged as a choice, not a failure. No streak resets, no guilt screens, no lectures. The app's job is to make the decision real, not to win it.
Who sees my recordings?
No one. Not us — there's no server to send them to. Videos, your log, everything stays on your phone, encrypted. No account, no email, no name. Delete all of it in one tap, any time, and it's gone.
What does it cost?
$30, once — a dollar a day for the thirty days, then it's yours: all habits, every run, forever. It never goes on sale. Running it again after a slip is free. Standby, an optional $1.99/month watchdog that checks in on you afterward, is the only subscription — and it's a watchdog, not a toll.
What happens after the 30 days?
A report of what actually drives your habit, and a graduation screen with the cancel button right on it. Near the end, some days go silent on purpose — to see if you catch the moment yourself. The goal was always for you to stop needing us.
What if it doesn't stick the first time?
Then run it again. It's free, forever, and it's a normal path — not a walk of shame. The first run wasn't wasted, either: every interrupt you answered was a repetition — a real decision, made in a moment that used to make itself. Strength comes from reps, and the reps don't vanish because the month ended. Some habits take two runs. Nothing about starting again starts you at zero.
What do I need to run it?
An iPhone on iOS 26 or later. That's it — no account, no sign-up, nothing to connect.
Why does everything look like this?
On purpose. When we thought about what an app like this should look like, the answer came out of the process itself. The style is called brutalism — structure shown, decoration skipped. Here's the parallel: a habit survives on everything wrapped around the decision — the mood, the ritual, the story. What worked for us was stripping all of that away until one small moment stood alone, because a small moment is a beatable one. The design does the same job: one typeface for facts, one for the loud parts, black ink on paper, no pop-ups, nothing moving in the corner of your eye. The moment doesn't get decoration. Neither do we.