Why Escape's Safari blocker is free, and stays free
Escape's Safari blocker is free. Not free-for-a-week, not free-until-you-hit-a-wall. Free, with no account and no time limit. There is a simple reason for it, and it is worth saying plainly.
The reason
Shutting the door on adult sites should not sit behind a paywall. The hardest part of quitting is the moment an urge hits, and in that moment nobody should be stopped by a payment screen from the one thing that helps, a site that simply will not load. So the blocking is free, for everyone, with no account to create and no email to hand over. If money is the thing standing between you and a blocker, that is exactly the wrong place for a barrier to be.
What is paid, and why that is fair
The paid upgrade is the deeper work. The 90-second urge tool, the panic button, the 27 short courses, and the ability to add your own custom blocks. That is the part that takes ongoing building, and paying for it is what keeps the whole thing running. It also keeps the model clean. There are no ads, and nothing about you is sold, so the free Safari blocker is not quietly paid for with your data. You are the user, not the product.
Why no account, even for the free part
A free tier is often where apps start quietly collecting, an email here, a login there. Escape does the opposite. The free Safari blocker needs no account and no email, because the most private version of blocking is the one where there is nothing tied to you at all. Free and anonymous are not in tension here, they are the same decision. More on that in the most private way to block.
You can turn on the free Safari blocker in about a minute and never pay if that is all you want, and plenty of people do exactly that. If you are ready, here is the one-minute setup.
Escape blocks porn in Safari for free, extends to every browser with Deep Block, and adds a 90-second urge ritual, practice games that retrain how you meet an urge, and 27 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
More on this topic in Blocking porn on iPhone and iPad, or go deeper with the You grew up on this course.