Questions, answered.

rerute (say "reroute") is an iPhone app for quitting porn.

Instead of counting days, it draws your recovery as a road: the urges you outlast pave it, a lapse bends it back toward the old road for a few days, and nothing ever resets to zero.

It comes with

• a wave timer for urges
• an if-then plan
• an eight-session course
• a monthly report
• optional Screen Time blocking

A streak is one number, and one bad night sends it back to zero.

The reset tends to bring shame, and shame is a well-documented route back to the screen. rerute measures what you've built instead. Your road gets longer with every clean day and every urge you outlast, and a lapse costs a few days, never everything. More on why streaks backfire.

Anyone who wants to stop watching porn, whatever their gender or relationship status.

You don't need to be sure you're "addicted", and you don't need to have stopped already. You start where you are.

No. rerute sends no notifications, ever. It's there when you open it and quiet when you don't.

You log it: how far it went, the hour, the place, the mood.

The road bends back toward the old one by an amount that depends on what happened, and the old road glows for a few days while its pull is strongest. Ground you've already walked comes back twice as fast, so after a single lapse you're usually back where you were within two to eight days. Two lapses close together switch the route to hold on, with your plan and the next 72 hours in front of you.

Masturbating without porn isn't a lapse in rerute.

Masturbating with porn playing in your head is. The rule is deliberately simple: if it needs a storyline, it's a session, and you log it. Early on, many people can't separate the two yet, and treat them as one thing for a while. The gray zone, explained.

There isn't one number, and anyone who promises one is guessing.

Many people notice the pull thinning within the first week or two, and old cues landing softer by the third or fourth week. rerute sets the length of your route from how long and how often you've used, anywhere from 60 to 365 days, and shows what typically changes along the way. The recovery timeline.

If you want it to.

The rope is optional blocking on iPhone through Apple's Screen Time: adult sites in every browser, safe search, short-video feeds, apps you choose and a night rope. Tightening is instant. Loosening takes a 500 meter walk, so you can't undo it on impulse. How the rope works.

Not quickly, and that's the point.

Loosening anything takes a 500 meter walk first, and if you've added a trusted person, a one-time code from them too. Tightening is always instant, and after a temporary loosening the rope ties itself again.

No. Blocking runs on your iPhone through Apple's Screen Time. rerute never learns which sites or apps you open. It only counts that the rope held.

Your logs stay on your iPhone and in your account, synced so they survive a new phone.

Nothing about what you log goes to analytics or advertisers, and there are no ads. You sign in with your email and a one-time code. Privacy policy.

Yes. In the app, go to Account and choose Delete account. That removes your account and everything you've logged.

No. rerute is a self-help tool, not therapy or medical treatment.

If your porn use is tangled up with depression, trauma, other compulsions or thoughts of harming yourself, please talk to a therapist who knows this area. If you're in danger right now, contact your local emergency number.

Not yet. rerute is on iPhone now, and Android is on the way.

Follow @rerute.app on Instagram to hear when it lands.