Bedside: Sleep App Blocker

Put the phone down at bedtime

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

You're not awake because you're not tired. You're awake because you're still scrolling. Bedside blocks the apps that keep you up — during the sleep window you set, and only then. ONE-TIME PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The core works free, with ads. A single purchase removes them for good and unlocks multiple sleep windows, multiple break rules, and the guardian password. No yearly bill, no plan to cancel, no account to make. Comparable apps in this category charge a subscription every year, and their buy-once tiers cost many times this. SLEEP WINDOW Pick a time range and the apps that derail your night — social, video, news, games, your call. They're blocked from bedtime until morning. The phone stops calling you back. PERIODIC BREAK Tracks each app's continuous use independently. Fifteen straight minutes on any one of them triggers a fifteen-minute cooldown. It pulls you out of the doomscroll before the hour disappears. LIMITED UNLOCKS, NEVER A DEAD-END Getting in during a blocked window takes a small deliberate task first — just enough to lose interest if you're sleepy. A real emergency always gets through; it only has to wait for you to actually stop and think. The door is never welded shut, because a tool that traps you is a tool you delete. A MORNING RECAP, NOT A VERDICT The next morning Bedside shows how last night went compared to the one before. No score, no streak to break, no guilt notification. Just progress you can see — which is the reason people are still using it on night four. WRITE THE BLOCK SCREEN YOURSELF Don't like our wording? Replace the title and subtitle with your own goal. Add several lines and they rotate at random, because any single sentence stops working around the fortieth time you read it. PRIVACY Built on Apple's Family Controls framework and runs on-device. Your rules, app selections and usage never leave your phone — no account, no server of ours. The free version shows ads (never during sleep hours, and never the moment you pause); the one-time purchase removes them and loads no third-party SDKs at all. For anyone who has tried deleting the app, tried promising themselves, tried the built-in screen time limit and switched it off.

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• The morning recap now shows how long you spent in each app yesterday — only the apps you picked, busiest first • No score, no target. Just yesterday as it actually was • Fixed: a break could stay up past its end time until you opened Bedside

The developer, zhenyu song, 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 Used to Track You

    The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Provider
  • zhenyu song
Size
  • 15.4 MB
Category
  • Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 19 more
  • English, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © 2026 Zach Song