Can I not just uninstall it?

You can. Any adult with physical control of a device can eventually get past any filter — uninstalling, resetting, using a second device. squeevio removes the one-tap escape and makes the remaining routes deliberate and effortful, which is the difference between a decision and a reflex. Anyone claiming their software is impossible to remove is selling you something.

What if I have nobody to be my partner?

You can use it alone: protection still works, and you can unlock yourself after a delay. That is meaningfully weaker, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Many people start alone and add a partner later, once they are ready to ask.

Will my partner know what I looked at?

No. They see your blocklist, your blocked categories and your linked devices, plus any request you send them. Browsing history never leaves your device, so there is nothing for them to be shown.

Every protective feature is free permanently — blocking, the partner lock, the intervention toolbox, breathing, urge and mood logging. Paid plans add convenience, never safety.

Is it available in the app stores?

Not yet. The web panel works today and you can create an account on the site; the mobile apps are not published in Google Play or the App Store at the time of writing.

A blocker you can switch off is not protection

If you have ever installed a website blocker, meant it, and removed it three weeks later at midnight, the problem was never your motivation. It was the design. The tool put the off switch in the hands of the person it was supposed to stop — you, at your least resourceful moment. This page explains what category of software actually addresses that, and where squeevio sits in it.

The failure is structural, not moral

Decisions are made by one version of you and executed by another. The version that installs a blocker on Sunday afternoon has slept, eaten and is thinking about next year. The version that meets the block at 1 a.m. is tired, alone, and thinking about the next four minutes. Both are you; only one of them is in the room when it matters.

Behavioural economists call the answer a commitment device: you deliberately narrow your own future options while you still have the clarity to want to. Odysseus tied to the mast is the stock example — not because he lacked willpower, but because he correctly predicted that willpower would not be the thing available to him later.

Almost every digital wellbeing tool skips this. It gives you a limit and also gives you the key to the limit. That is a reminder, not a commitment — and a reminder is exactly what an urge is good at arguing with.

Three categories people confuse

Self-imposed blockers

Freedom, Cold Turkey, Opal, one sec, built-in Screen Time limits

You set a limit and you hold the key. Some add friction — a delay, a password you typed while calm, a paid "locked mode".

Friction is not a lock. In the urge state, a five-minute delay is something to wait out. This is the category most people try first and abandon.

Accountability reporting

Covenant Eyes, Accountable2You, Ever Accountable, Truple

A second person receives reports on what you did — visited sites, flagged screenshots, activity summaries. Their published purpose is visibility.

It works for many people, and it is a genuine commitment device. The cost is that recovery is bought with surveillance: someone reads a record of your worst hours. Some people accept that trade. Others quietly stop using the tool rather than be seen that way — and a tool you stop using protects nobody.

Habit and recovery apps

Fortify, Remojo, Brainbuddy and similar

Education, streaks, community, relapse tracking. Their subject is your motivation and understanding.

Valuable, and often used alongside a blocker. But they work on wanting to stop, not on making stopping enforceable. Nothing in them stands between you and the site.

Where squeevio differs

squeevio is a commitment device with a person in it, but it separates two things the accountability category bundles together: authority over the setting, and visibility into the behaviour. Your partner gets the first and never the second.

Adding protection is always free and instant
You never need permission to protect yourself more. No confirmation dialog, no cooldown, no partner approval.
Removing it is not something you can do alone
Once a partner is attached, you cannot lift a block by yourself. They either grant a time-boxed unlock, or read you a one-time code you type in — which works even with no connectivity.
Your partner sees the settings, not your life
They see which categories and domains are blocked, and which devices are linked. They never see browsing history, messages, calls, moods or journal entries. Not "we promise not to look" — the data is not sent to them.
The block is a doorway, not a wall
Hitting a blocked site opens a full-screen set of tools: a breathing exercise, the reason you wrote for yourself, a one-tap call to a peer, a place to log the urge. The moment of temptation is the moment help is most useful, and it is the moment most tools only say no.
It cannot be routed around from inside the device
Filtering inspects all traffic locally, so a browser's own encrypted DNS, a hardcoded IP or a QUIC connection does not slip past. The decision is made on the device; nothing about your browsing is uploaded.

When you should use something else

Recommending the wrong category wastes someone's month. If one of these is your situation, squeevio is not your tool:

You want to manage a child's device
Use parental control software — Qustodio, Bark, Google Family Link, Apple Screen Time. squeevio has no parent–child model, no child profiles and no covert monitoring of another person. It assumes the person being limited is the person who chose the limit.
You specifically want someone to see your activity
Some people are helped precisely by knowing a report lands in a friend's inbox. That is the accountability-reporting category, and it is a legitimate choice. squeevio deliberately does not do it.
You want to block a coworker's or partner's browsing without telling them
No. That is monitoring another adult without consent, and it is not something this project will help with.
You are in crisis
Software is not a crisis service. Talk to a person — a clinician, a helpline, someone you trust. The specialists directory is a starting point, not a substitute.

Questions people actually ask

Can I not just uninstall it?: You can. Any adult with physical control of a device can eventually get past any filter — uninstalling, resetting, using a second device. squeevio removes the one-tap escape and makes the remaining routes deliberate and effortful, which is the difference between a decision and a reflex. Anyone claiming their software is impossible to remove is selling you something.
What if I have nobody to be my partner?: You can use it alone: protection still works, and you can unlock yourself after a delay. That is meaningfully weaker, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Many people start alone and add a partner later, once they are ready to ask.
Will my partner know what I looked at?: No. They see your blocklist, your blocked categories and your linked devices, plus any request you send them. Browsing history never leaves your device, so there is nothing for them to be shown.
Is it free?: Every protective feature is free permanently — blocking, the partner lock, the intervention toolbox, breathing, urge and mood logging. Paid plans add convenience, never safety.
Is it available in the app stores?: Not yet. The web panel works today and you can create an account on the site; the mobile apps are not published in Google Play or the App Store at the time of writing.

If the moment is the problem, start with the moment

Set the limit while you can think clearly, and give the key to someone who wants you to succeed.

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