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.
Ratings & Reviews
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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
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- 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.
- iPhone
- 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+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Bedside Pro USD 11.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Zach Song
