Drunk you doesn't get a vote.

The methods that hold are the ones you can't reverse on your own. Blocking a number and deleting a contact both take under a minute to undo. On iPhone, set Screen Time Downtime from 21:00 with Communication Limits set to Specific Contacts, and have someone else set the passcode — that combination is free and survives a bad night. This app adds the piece Screen Time doesn't have: somewhere for the message to go. You write it, it's locked until 9am, and by then you usually don't want to send it.

No phone setting can veto a purchase inside an app you've already opened, so every workable barrier sits earlier in the chain: remove stored cards, set a limit or freeze in your banking app, and block the apps and sites on a nightly schedule. If the spending happens on a website, block every browser on the phone as an app too — website blocking only reaches Safari, which is the single most common reason people think blocking doesn't work.

Yes, several. Apple's own Screen Time does it free — Downtime on a schedule plus App Limits set to one minute — and you should try that first. Paid options include Opal, one sec, Jomo and AppBlock. What none of them have is a vault: somewhere to put the thing you wanted to send, so the urge has an exit that isn't the send button.

No, and nothing on a phone can. This app is a clock. It shields what you chose during the hours you chose, and it makes no assumption about why tonight feels urgent — which for a lot of people has nothing to do with drinking at all.

It costs less than one bad hour. The apps beside it charge $89.99 to $99.99 for a lifetime licence, and the subscriptions pass that inside three years. One bad night on a creator platform runs to four figures, and one late-night email during a custody case costs a great deal more than that. If the number still feels steep, you might not need this — and that's a fine answer.

No. Messaging an ex is one of the ways money leaves your account at 9pm, and it's the one people talk about. The others — the spending, the trade, the email to your boss — are the same failure with a bigger invoice attached.

No. No subscription, no ads, no trial that turns into one, no locked features. You pay once and everything works from the first launch.

There isn't one, and that's the point. No unlock button, no override, no emergency purchase — nothing to buy at 9pm, ever. Your ways out are: answer ten questions and one app opens for ten minutes, write it in the vault, ring the mate you nominated, or wait until morning. Calls, emergency services and maps are never blocked. And if you genuinely need it all off, your phone's own settings do it in seconds — we don't obstruct that, we just tell you in the morning that it happened.

On iPhone it can't: Apple hands the app anonymous tokens for what you pick, so it never learns which apps they are. On Android it does know — that's how the shield can name the app it just stopped — but knowing and sending are different things, and there is nowhere for it to send anything. No account, no server, no analytics. Any number you see is one you typed yourself.