Do Porn Blockers Work?
Not for long. You can uninstall a porn blocker in a moment of weakness — and at 1 a.m., alone, you will.
That’s the catch with every blocker: you hold the key, so the wall stands only until you decide to take it down. So we skipped the wall and added a person.
What’s a Clamp?
Your Clamp is the one person you put in charge of your accountability — spouse, sponsor, best friend, whoever you’d least like to disappoint. You hand us their email, and when the app flags something, your Clamp hears about it. You can delete an app in a weak moment, but you can’t un-tell someone who already knows. That’s the thing a blocker can never give you: not a wall, but a witness you’d have to look in the eye.
Your Clamp never sees anything embarrassing.
We’ll say this loud — here and everywhere else on this site: your Clamp never sees your web addresses, your screenshots, or your history. They see how many flagged events happened in each category — never which sites or what was on them. A number, by category. That’s the whole report. The app sorts activity into a category right on your phone, and that label is the only thing we keep and the only thing your Clamp ever sees. The address and the screen are never stored and never shown to anyone. Exactly what we do and don’t see →