Choosing a blocker

The comparison genre is mostly worthless because the comparisons are mostly written by the winner. Eleven tools reviewed, and by an extraordinary coincidence the one at number one is the one paying for the page.

The fix is not to pretend we have no stake. It is to write the paragraph that a dishonest review cannot afford to write: the one that says if this is your situation, buy theirs. Post 43 opens by naming who should stay on Opal. Post 48 is honest about the ceiling of our own approach, which a physical key genuinely beats.

Then there is one piece that sorts every app in the category on a single axis nobody else uses, because nobody else would survive it: how many seconds it takes to get past each one when you really want to. The method is published so anyone can check our work.

Where to start

Start with the ranking that matters, see what each free tier is holding back, read the honest case for the market leader, then understand why the pet apps work at all.

1. Forest, Study Bunny, Finch: what the pet apps get right Why caring for a small imaginary thing works better than a timer, and where the trick runs out.

The rest of it