A private pause before you act

Put a pause between the urge and the message.

Don't Text Your Ex gives you a structured moment to slow down when you want to message, reply or check. No blocking, no spying, no shame — just enough space to choose what happens next.

  • iOS + Android
  • Local-first
  • No account
Don't Text Your Ex home screen showing a growing plant, urge action and No Contact progress
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Nothing is sent for you

The moment that matters

You don't need another dashboard when the urge hits.

You need something useful in the minute before you act. The app turns that minute into a short, deliberate flow — without pretending the feeling is not there.

Trigger and urge intensity screen in Don't Text Your Ex
01Start with what is actually happening.

No Contact you can see

Don't stare at a streak. Watch what you built.

One real No Contact period becomes one plant. Time without contact creates the structural growth. Optional care can add detail, but missing it never takes anything away.

Drag the day. The plant follows the same growth stages used by the app.

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Day 24Growing plant
LIVE

Time creates growth. Care never becomes punishment.

Watered. The stage did not change.

Private by architecture

Your private moment should not become somebody else’s dataset.

The core app works locally. There is no account, no profile and no cloud sync for your private content. It does not read your chats or social media, and it never contacts anyone on your behalf.

If you choose to export or share something, that action starts with you.

  • No account

    No registration or profile is required to use the core app.

  • Local data

    Messages, notes, reflections, settings and history stay on your device.

  • Core works offline

    The main flow does not depend on a remote service to be useful.

  • No automatic access

    No automatic reading of messengers, social media, contacts or private conversations.

Built for the whole pattern

The urge is one moment. Recovery is everything around it.

Write without sending. Ground yourself. Keep a reality check. Reach a trusted person. See patterns without turning your life into a leaderboard.

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Progress

See No Contact, No Checking and patterns without turning them into punishment.

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My garden

Earlier plants stay as a quiet record of the periods you built.

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Write without sending

Get the words out without opening the conversation.

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Journal

Keep factual notes about difficult moments and what happened next.

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Tools

Grounding, Reality Check, trusted person and other practical exits from the impulse.

Questions without the fine print

What the app does — and what it deliberately does not do.

01What is Don't Text Your Ex?

A local-first mobile app that creates a structured pause between the urge to contact or check your ex and the action itself. It also tracks No Contact, No Checking and your intervention history.

02Does the app read my messages or social media?

No. It does not automatically read messengers, social media or private conversations, and it never sends anything on your behalf.

03Do I need an account or an internet connection?

The core app does not require an account, profile or cloud sync and is designed to work locally on the device.

04What happens to my plant if contact happens?

That plant stays in your garden as a record of the period you built. A new plant starts from a seed for the new No Contact stage.

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For the next difficult minute

The message can wait.

Don't Text Your Ex is built for iOS and Android. The product is intentionally small where it should be small: one private place to pause, choose and keep moving.

iOS + Android