Impulse lives on your lock screen. One press opens a gameplan built for you. Ground. Reset. Redirect.
ImpulseMode is a short, adaptive loop. It meets you where you are, not where a habit tracker wishes you were.
A single tap to mark what set it off — a person, a place, a feeling, a time of day.
A 45-second physical pattern-break. Breath, cold, or movement — whatever works on you.
50 steps to change the scene. Then an intentional next action — one you actually want.
The hardest part of breaking a pattern is the 4 seconds before it starts. Impulse sits exactly there — a Lock Screen widget, plus a double-tap shortcut on the back of your phone. No unlock, no scrolling, no app to open.
Press it and ImpulseMode takes over the screen until you're through.
After each press, Impulse asks one question: did that help? Over a week, your gameplan reshapes around what moves the needle — and quietly drops what doesn't.
Every press becomes a signal. Impulse shows you when urges spike, which triggers compound, and which resets actually buy you time back.
Four weeks is long enough to see real signal in your data, short enough to actually commit.
Every time the urge shows up, press the button and let the app take the screen. No goals yet. You're collecting a baseline.
Enough presses and the shape appears: the times, the places, the feeling right before. Usually not the one you'd have guessed.
What worked gets promoted, what didn't gets retired. The plan stops being generic advice and starts being yours.
The urge still arrives. The difference is you recognise the run-up, and you have something to do with it.
Free, and anonymous.
No email, no account to create, no subscription. Impulse asks for a behavior to work on, not for your identity.
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