Porn addiction, compulsive use, or just too much of it

Quit porn on your own terms.

Quit, cut down, or find out it was never the problem you were told it was. Research-backed tools for the moment an urge hits, a free course that tells you what the science actually says, and an app built around your triggers, your hours, your rooms — that has no idea who you are.

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Coming to iOS and Android. No account. No email. No name. Nothing to sign up for.

The Panic screen in the Nightshore app: a glowing orb with a droplet swells and settles inside a breathing ring, with the cues 'Breathe in', 'Hold' and 'Breathe out'

Panic, as it ships. Recorded from the app, not drawn.

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Well established

Claims the research supports with consistent, replicated findings.

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Mixed evidence

Contested, or the studies disagree. Labelled as such inside the lesson, not in a footnote.

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Anecdotal

Widely reported, never properly studied. Both facts are told to you.

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Myth

Popular, and wrong. Named so you can stop carrying it.

01Built around you

It learns your hours, your triggers, your rooms — and builds around them.

Two minutes each evening, and Nightshore knows when it happens for you, where, and why. Then it builds for exactly that.

Build my set. Your Panic journeys, assembled from your own history — written for your 2am, your bedroom, your trigger. Set a second one to take over on the nights that go wrong.

Ember. A companion that has read your plan, your patterns and your check-ins, there at any hour to talk it through. Ask it anything. It answers you.

"You told me late nights are where the urges find you. What does the room look like right now?"

Recovery insights: the app scrolls through what the check-ins found — urges cluster late at night, more on Saturdays, boredom before most of them — down to the course card
Your patternsWhat the check-ins found. Yours, not everyone's.
Journeys: a set of three journeys with the button 'Build my set for me'
Build my setJourneys chosen from your own history.
Ember: a message is typed and sent, and the companion replies word by word, naming the user's own late-night pattern and pointing at the Change Your Environment journey
EmberKnows your plan. Talks it through.
02Panic

One tap. Ninety seconds. The urge passes.

Panic lives one tap from your lock screen. Tap it and you're in a journey built to get you through the peak — a paced breath, a concrete move, a game to lose yourself in. Research-backed, completely free, and it works with no signal at all.

Panic: the breathing orb, one full cycle — breathe in, hold, breathe out
PanicOne tap from the lock screen.
A journey: 'This will pass', then the four Change Your Environment steps pressed one by one — stand up, go where people are, find light, drink a glass of water — and 'How are you feeling right now?'
A journeySteps you can do. Games you can lose yourself in.
03Not alone

A room full of people doing the same thing. Not one of them can find you.

Every other app in this category built a social network and then had to police it. Nightshore built something else: a room with no profiles, no followers, no messages, no way to be found. Everyone here is someone.

You see the room breathing — "118 people checked in, 43 got through an urge today" — and the moments people chose to share: someone got through a hard night, someone showed up for the evening check-in, in a line of their own words. You can answer, and you can post your own. Nobody will ever know it was you.

Community: today's pulse, a beacon prompt, and anonymous posts — a reaction is tapped on the first, then the feed scrolls down to 'Told my brother today. He didn't flinch.'
CommunityAnonymous by design.
04Nobody knows

No account. No email. No name. Nightshore has no idea who you are.

There is nothing to sign up for. Open the app and you're in. Your check-ins, your plan, your progress live under an identity that isn't attached to a single thing about you — not an address, not a phone number, not a login. Delete it and it's gone. Built so that it can't be found out.

05Straight answers

Every claim in the course is graded. You can see the grade.

Half the internet says porn is a drug. The other half says there's no such thing as a problem. Nightshore's 41-lesson course sits on 47 sourced claims, each one graded for how strong the evidence actually is — and it tells you inside the lesson when the answer is "nobody knows". Quit, cut down, or decide this isn't your problem: all three are ways to finish it.

Browse the answers →The evidence register →
06What costs money

Premium buys more ways to get better. It never buys back the crisis path.

The line is drawn so you can see it. Everything on the left is free for as long as the app exists. Everything on the right is extra.

Free Always

  • The full 41-lesson course — every claim graded
  • Panic — offline, from the lock screen, with the three core journeys
  • Recovery — the twelve hours after a slip
  • The evening check-in — the profile everything else is built on
  • Community — the whole room, from day one
  • Two of the five minigames, and your time-of-day insight
  • Writing your own journeys — earned in the app, never sold

Premium Subscription

  • Build my set — AI assembles your journeys from your own triggers, hours and places
  • Ember — the companion that has read your plan
  • Journeys for a specific trigger or place — and sets that switch in at 2am, in bed
  • Site blocking — DNS-level, on this device
  • Panic on the Home and Lock Screen
  • All five minigames; all five insight dimensions
  • Export of everything you've logged
07The course

Nine parts. About three minutes a lesson. Readable here, free.

  1. 1Before we startWhat this is, an honest baseline, and where the exit is.
  2. 2What's actually going onThe honest science, and whether this is even a problem for you.
  3. 3Urges, explainedThe mechanism, without the mythology.
  4. 4Choosing your goalYour values, your goal, and what counts as success.
  5. 5The toolkitThe behaviour-change moves that have actually been tested.
  6. 6Slips, shame & staying powerThe part that decides who makes it. Never locked.
  7. 7Bodies, sex & partnersArousal, disclosure, and the conversations that go with it.
  8. 8History & cultureThree hundred years of context, and a filter for everything you'll read next.
  9. 9The long gameIdentity, maintenance, and an honest close.
The course reader: 'What an urge actually does' scrolls from its title, past the urge curve, to the Worth keeping card
In the appEvery lesson, with its grades. Also readable right here.
Open the course Take the five-minute baseline quiz →
08The app

Get Nightshore.

Coming to iOS and Android. Free to install, free to use. Anonymous by design — there is no account to create and nothing to sign up for.

Coming to iOS and Android. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it's out — and send the free course one lesson a day while you wait.