It blocks porn. That was never going to be enough.

It starts with you.

Bramble asks how often it happens and which apps pull at you, then suggests how tightly it should hold, and you decide. The apps that pull hardest stay shut, or open only in short windows you choose. Sites do not load, and neither do the ways around them, across every app, not only the browser.

It is free. Not a trial and not a tier.

It looks at the picture, not only the address.

Lists of bad sites are always behind. So in Safari, a small image model on your phone looks at the pictures themselves — tuned on about five thousand images, most of them the hard cases: the beach photo, the gym shot, the thing that is not porn and still pulls. When the phone cannot tell, the image is checked privately on our server and never stored.

The same protections reach your Mac, and Chrome. A night curfew, when only what you need will open. Your browsing is not a report anyone reads.

No one sees your screen. A few men see you.

Some tools send pictures of your screen to someone else. That runs on embarrassment, and embarrassment is what kept you hiding. Bramble sends no screenshots. Instead you choose who walks with you: witnesses who hear what you bring them, and a Keyholder who holds your Screen Time passcode and is told if protection comes down.

Weighing it against Covenant Eyes or another blocker? The comparison sets it out plainly.

Tell a brother. He will pray.

When the pull comes, one tap lets your witnesses know. They do not get a report. They get a brother who needs them, and they can write back, or simply pray, and you will see that they did.

And on your brother’s hard night, you are the one who answers.

And a group, if you want one.

A small group of men with a host, a call each week, and a thread for the days in between, where brothers encourage each other and pray for each other. Nobody watches anybody. Men keep showing up for each other, which is most of what getting free turns out to be.

Built on how men actually get free.

Checking in, and being accountable to each other. A check-in each day, at an hour you choose: breathe, name what you are feeling, choose one healthy thing, and share it with your brothers if you want to. No day counter anywhere — a number you can lose turns one hard night into a collapse. Christ-centered, and drawn from the clinical work of Patrick Carnes.

There is going to be a way around it.

There always is, and Bramble says so inside the app, because a tool that pretends to be unbreakable is lying to you. When the pull comes, one button walks you through the next few minutes, and one tap lets your brothers know.

When you find the way around it, I hope there is someone you can tell. A brother who already knows your story, and stays.

— Luke. His story.