Spacer
Quit slowly.
Stay quit.
Spacer helps you ease off any habit at a pace you can live with. Each wait grows a little, and the habit fades with it.
App Store Free to start. iPhone and iPad.
Not cold turkey. Not willpower alone.
You wear a habit down slowly, one wait at a time, at a pace your body can keep up with.
Tell it the habit
Name what you're easing off, how much you do it now, and why you want less. That becomes your starting point, and it never moves.
Log it, or wait it out
When the wait is over, hold to log. If an urge comes early, Spacer helps you ride it out with your own reason, in your own voice.
The gap grows
Every wait you hold adds a little. Nobody has to be perfect for it to work, only a little further apart than yesterday.
Two kinds of habit, one quiet method
Once, and it's done
Spacer slowly grows the gap between each one. You see when the next one opens, and every wait you hold pushes the one after a little further.
A cigarette, a vape, a drink, a pill, a bet
For a stretch of time
Spacer gives you a daily time that shrinks a little each morning. Go over on a hard day and tomorrow simply holds, so the change never feels like a cliff.
Scrolling, gaming, watching, shopping
Calm when it's quiet. There when it's hard.
Built so one bad moment can't undo your work
A slip never sends you back to zero
Log it honestly and the clock restarts from that real moment. Your interval stays where it was. No streak to break, no red screen, no day one.
Emergency access, without a lecture
If you really need to, you can. On its own it costs nothing. Only if early uses become a pattern does Spacer ease you back two days, to a wait you can hold, never past where you started.
Your starting point never moves
Every number is counted from day one, so "64% less often than when you started" is always the truth, whatever kind of week you've had.
Changes wait for a calm moment
A new pace starts at your next reset or your next log, never in the middle of an urge. Decisions about your recovery get made when you're calm.
Your day starts when you wake
Budgets reset at your wake time, not midnight, and Spacer stays silent while you sleep. Anything it has to say waits for one quiet message in the morning.
Medical safety, built in
Stopping alcohol, benzodiazepines, barbiturates or opioids suddenly can be dangerous. For these, Spacer keeps you on the Gentle pace and turns off emergency access. Taper with your doctor.
Slow enough to keep
Your pace is how much the habit changes for each day you keep to it. You can change it whenever you like; it starts tomorrow.
Halves a habit in about five weeks.
For when Gentle feels easy.
Demanding, and honest about it.
A wait counts for the share of a waking day it covered, so a habit you do every half hour and one you do twice a day move at the same speed. When it looks easy for you, Spacer suggests going a little faster.
Thoughtful where it counts
Patterns from your own data
When urges hit, what sets them off, which tools actually help, and where your pace is heading, with a likely range.
Widgets and Live Activities
Your next opening on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island.
Your reason, in your voice
Record why you're doing this. It plays back the moment an urge arrives.
Reports for your doctor Pro
A clear PDF made on your phone, for a clinician, a partner or just you.
Someone in your corner Pro
A short summary every week or two for a person you trust. Never live alerts, never your journal.
Locked, backed up, yours
Face ID lock, a backup file you control, and a spreadsheet export whenever you want it.
Asked, and answered
Won't quitting slowly just drag it out?
Cold turkey fails so often because it asks for everything at once. Spacer lowers the bar to a level you can actually hold, then keeps raising it. Slow and kept beats fast and abandoned.
What happens if I slip?
Nothing resets. If your wait was already over, it counts as a normal log. If not, the clock restarts from the moment you really used and your interval stays where it was. Honest logging never costs you progress.
What does emergency access cost?
On its own, nothing. It unlocks right away and that wait simply doesn't grow your interval. If early uses become a pattern, Spacer eases you back two days of progress, to a wait you can hold, and never past where you started.
Which habits can I track?
Anything you want less of: smoking, vaping, alcohol, coffee, gambling, scrolling, gaming, porn and more. Habits are yours to name, so something private never has to be spelled out.
Can I use it to cut back on porn?
Yes. Space out each time or give it a daily time that shrinks. Because a slip never resets a streak, there's no day one shame cycle, and nothing ever leaves your phone.
Do I need an account or internet?
No. Everything lives on your device and works offline. Spacer sends only anonymous usage statistics, like which screens get opened, never what you write or what your habits are called.
Is it free?
Spacer is free to start. Pro adds more habits, your own pace, an accountability partner, reports for your doctor and every widget size. It's on iPhone and iPad, in 31 languages.
Your recovery is nobody's business but yours
Your habits, notes and voice stay on your phone. No account, no ads, no cloud. You can export your data for a therapist or doctor, but that's always your call.
Start a little further apart
Begin at a pace that feels possible today. The distance builds from there.