A steadier place to stand.
Breakaway pairs a Mac-based gambling blocker with the one thing that actually works: someone who knows.
Protection runs on your Mac — download it, then connect it · iPhone on the way
Willpower has a bedtime.
Every blocker you've tried failed the same way: the person who installed it could remove it. Not in some distant weak moment — that night, at 2am, in the forty seconds it takes to open Settings.
Breakaway moves the decision out of the moment's reach. When you commit, you pick a date, and the app adds friction to changing that decision. A real exception runs through a person you chose back when you were steady.
Three moves, then it holds itself.
Pick what to block and lock it until a date you choose. On a supported Mac, Breakaway keeps the protection running and tells you when it needs attention.
Pushing against the wall gets you a pause — your streak, your reasons, a breath. Never a red screen. Never a lecture.
Real exceptions go through a person: a timed window that closes itself, or a quiet no. Removing the commitment entirely takes their yes too.
A hard moment, met gently.
Push against the wall and nothing shouts. The screen goes calm: how long you've been clear, the reasons you wrote on a better day, room for one breath. Most urges crest and fade inside minutes — the pause is built to outlast them.
Keep pushing anyway, and your buddy gets a quiet heads-up. Not a report — a reason to call.
They see that the wall is holding — never where you go.
A buddy gets signals, not surveillance — enough to stand with you, never enough to watch you.
Buddy pages open from a private link — if someone asked you to stand with them, it's in your invite.
Count the days, not the damage.
Recovery tools love to dwell on what you lost. Breakaway keeps the other ledger — clear days stacking up, money still yours, urges you outlasted. The streak sits front and center because most nights, not wanting to break it is all it takes.
Six sample weeks. The two pale squares are the point: a bad night sits inside a good month, not the other way around.
Start before the next hard night.
Ten minutes to set up. One person to ask.
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