Hey everyone,

My name is Chris Nagy, I'm the founder and solo dev behind Curfew*.*
It's my first time releasing an app I made into the world!

TLDR;

>Curfew locks your Mac at night so you go to sleep instead of staying up late. You set a time when it should lock (eg. midnight) and it then covers your whole screen automatically. If you need to finish up something, you can snooze for 5 minutes by holding 5 random keys for 30 seconds. This is just enough annoyance to disrupt your dopamine stream and let you step away.

Problem

I couldn't get off my computer late into the night. I believed I must keep grinding and sleep is secondary. My mornings usually started around 3PM (!) because of this, and it was messing up my entire life. I don't really have self control to stop working, so I made something that just makes me step away.

How It Works

• Choose a bedtime between 10 PM and 2 AM.
• Curfew covers every display and Space automatically.
• It releases the screen at 6 AM and returns the following night.
• Hold five random keys for 30 seconds to get five minutes of use.
• Subsequent snoozes require a 60-second hold.
• It cannot be quit during curfew and restarts if force-killed.

Comparison

vs Cold Turkey? Cold Turkey has you build detailed blocks for websites, apps, or the whole computer. It is technically more customizable but it means you need to do all that customizing. Curfew is simple and focused on a single task. Instead of setting custom rules and blocksets, you just pick your bedtime and it takes over the whole screen automatically every night. CT is a general blocking app, while Curfew has one job: getting you off the Mac and into bed.

vs Freedom? Freedom is also a general blocker for apps, websites, and the internet across your devices. It can not block your whole screen though. Curfew is built specifically for bedtime. It covers the whole screen, so there is no unblocked app to drift into. The only way back is the five-key hold, and five minutes later Curfew locks again. Freedom would let you go into your Finder and watch old videos in your downloads folder until the sun comes up.

Pricing

• $19 once for up to 2 Macs
• Three full nights free, no credit card
• Free 10-second bedtime reminder after the trial
• 60-day money-back guarantee

👉 Download: usecurfew.app

Transparency

• App works fully offline, only uses the internet for initial licensing and updates.
• A paid copy does not check its license ever again, forever yours offline.
• There is no tracking in the app.
• Needs Accessibility permission to reliably lock and prevent unwanted keypresses.
• Signed and notarized .dmg by my company Sentium Inc.
• Privacy & Terms
• Song in the video was made with Suno but I wrote the lyrics!
• AI: I wrote all the text in this post, except some of the how-it-works and comparison sections.

Let me know what you think of Curfew as a whole! I am bringing updates to it weekly and patching all the bugs that come in. Feel free to DM me here if there's anything or contact me at Support.

FourFiveSeconds came on the radio and wanted to show a friend its the only song I ever bought! And then it wasn't in my Apple Music app. And then it wasn't in iTunes app. Thought I went crazy but I found the actual purchase from 2015.

So in short, Apple simply took my song away from me. Very nice!