Spacer: Quit Habits Slowly
Quit smoking, scrolling & more
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Recover from any habit at a pace your body can handle — no streaks, no shame, and your data never leaves your phone.
Spacer is built on a single, powerful idea from addiction science: willpower alone is hard to sustain. So instead of relying on it, you wear the habit down slowly.
Using Progressive Interval Recovery, Spacer helps you regain control over any habit. Whether it's an event (like smoking or taking a pill) or a duration (like doomscrolling or gaming). Instead of demanding you quit "cold turkey", Spacer gently stretches the time between your uses, gradually lowering your baseline while respecting your body's rhythm.
WHY SPACER IS DIFFERENT
• No Streaks, No Shame: A single slip shouldn't erase months of progress. Spacer tracks your true baseline. If you slip, just log it honestly—your data adjusts, but you never go back to zero.
• Cold State Rule: Decisions about your recovery should be made when you are calm. Changes to your pace take effect the next day, preventing impulsive choices during a craving.
• Total Privacy: Your data never leaves your device. There are no accounts, no cloud syncs, and no telemetry. Your recovery is your business.
KEY FEATURES
• Progressive Delay: Spacer automatically calculates when you can use next, gently increasing the gap each time.
• Urge Surfing Toolkit: When a craving hits early, Spacer provides immediate, evidence-based tools: 4-7-8 breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercises, and voice memos you record yourself to remind you why you started.
• Emergency Bypass: Recovery isn't perfectly linear. If you genuinely need to use, the emergency bypass lets you do so while adjusting your progress proportionally, preventing the "all-or-nothing" guilt spiral.
• Accountability Partner: Automatically send beautifully formatted, context-free progress reports to someone you trust, without exposing your private journals or slip times.
• Deep Insights: Identify your triggers, see your success rate when surfing urges, and view time-of-day heatmaps so you know exactly when you are most vulnerable.
Whether you are tapering off screens, habits, or substances, Spacer gives you the structure and the grace to recover at a pace that works.
Medical Warning: Abruptly stopping certain substances (like Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, Barbiturates, or Opioids) can cause severe medical complications. Spacer is a supplementary tool and does not replace medical supervision.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Information
- Seller
- Mohamed Amadou Garba
- Size
- 45.3 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 20 more
- English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains
User-Generated Content
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Spacer Pro Lifetime $99.99
- Spacer Pro Annual $29.99
- Spacer Pro Monthly $3.99
- Copyright
- ©2026 Spacer