about:blank 4+
frederik dudzik
Designed for iPad
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- $3.99
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Description
Break your bad browsing habits and stay productive! The about:blank app helps you stay away from distracting websites.
KEY FEATURES
• Privacy by default
about:blank cannot read your browser history.
• Block websites with surgical precision
The rules are based on regular expressions, allowing fine control over a blocked URL. For example, you can block the landing page of YouTube and still watch individual videos.
• Nosy people have no chance
Require authentication with FaceID/TouchID to access about:blank.
• Makes it hard to cheat
To help you stick to your rules, about:blank has an option that requires you to enter a random string to delete existing rules.
• Sync your rules across devices
Use about:blank on your iOS, iPad, and macOS without the need to maintain multiple rule lists.
MADE FOR IPHONE
about:blank is tailored to the iPhone with deep system integrations. A great example is
• An action extensions that allow you to block websites inside of Safari.
• Focus mode filters to configure in which focus mode to block websites.
• A beautiful dark mode, so the app doesn't distract you at night
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If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. I'll be glad to help you!
What’s New
Version 2022.2
Added focus mode filters to configure in which focus mode to block websites.
Ratings and Reviews
Exactly what I wanted!
This app, unlike other “blocking” apps, allows you to drill down to specific web pages to block those without affecting the rest of the site. Perfect for if I want to isolate only certain parts of a site without having to block off the whole thing. I love it! It also has a video demonstration for how to use the app to generate the URL you want to block instead of copy-pasting and escaping all the special characters manually. It’s great!
Pretty great, maybe almost perfect
Pros: Minimalist interface with lots of room for configuration.
Cons (minor IMO, some easy fixes for dev tho):
- Works via Xcode, which means you need to type a \ before special characters (e.g. facebook\.com). For some reason, this app’s keyboard doesn’t have a “\” key. To manually type an address, I have to write it in “Notes” and copy it over.
- The first several times I launched it, it immediately came up with a full screen page asking me to enable it in Safari extensions when I already had. I almost thought I couldn’t use the app - turns out you can swipe down on that full screen page and get into the app. After quitting safari and a:b twice, it seemed to go away
- After putting in a website in correct format, there was a delay before that website was actually blocked. Not sure what triggered it finally. I thought app was broken and even downloaded a different app (Ochi), set it up, then realized this was working. I prefer this to Ochi, for now, due to its minimalist approach and minimal bloat.
- Also, I guess for sake of completion maybe this app is hard for non-technical people to use because software things like “\” before special characters may not be common knowledge ?? Idk, doubt anyone is reading this but figured I’d say it.
Developer Response ,
Thanks so much for the detailed description. I’ll look into your suggestions :)
This app is great, but
This app does everything I could ask for it to do, however there is a bug that makes you unable to delete a site from being blocked or change the block after it has already been added. It just causes the whole app to crash to Home Screen. I guess this does keep you from unblocking things for your self that you are trying to stop using. But it would be preferable if the app still functioned properly. I will change this review if this gets updated.
App Privacy
The developer, frederik dudzik, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- frederik dudzik
- Size
- 21.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Frederik Dudzik
- Price
- $3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.