Know when you're at risk.
Not after.

Relapse cycles are behavioral, driven by time of day, stress levels, emotional state, and specific triggers that compound. Motivation is a poor defense against a deeply wired pattern, because motivation is highest when you don't need it and lowest when you do. Firmhold works the other way round: it finds the specific hours and days your own relapses cluster in, then tells you when you're inside that window, while you're in it rather than afterwards. You can't out-willpower a pattern you can't see, but you can plan around one you can.

Brainbuddy and similar apps are built around streak counting, a number that resets to zero every time you relapse. Firmhold doesn't have a streak. Instead, it analyzes your behavioral data over time and delivers insights like 'Thursday nights after 10pm are your highest-risk window based on 47 entries.' That's something you can act on. A reset counter isn't.

Covenant Eyes, Ever Accountable and similar apps work by sending what you do to a person you choose, an accountability partner. That's the entire mechanism, and it helps people who have someone safe to nominate. Firmhold does the opposite: nobody sees your activity, including us. It computes the pattern behind your relapses with fixed rules on our own servers and shows the result to nobody but you. Different tools for different situations, not a replacement for one another.

Open the Panic Button. It's free and never requires a subscription. It takes you through a 3-minute grounding exercise anchored to your personal reason for changing. It won't make the urge disappear, but it creates distance between the impulse and the action. Distance is where the decision happens.

15 entries, a threshold enforced in the code, not a guideline. Below it you're shown nothing, because a pattern drawn from ten data points isn't a pattern, it's a coincidence with a chart. After 15 the engine runs automatically, and every insight carries its own confidence level, so you can tell an early signal from a settled one. You don't have to spend a month logging in real time to get there either: a 30-day backfill lets you enter the relapses and urges you already remember, so your first report can be ready the day you sign up.

Your data lives in your account and is never sold or shared. The pattern analysis runs on our servers using only your logs. No third-party AI models process your entries. You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time.

No. It checks your open tabs locally, including ones open in the background rather than just the one you're looking at, to notice sites you've chosen to monitor. It never reads page content and never uploads your full browsing history. The only thing that ever leaves your device is the domain, duration, and time of a detected session on a site you picked, and nothing is saved to your history until you confirm what actually happened.

Yes. Unlimited logging, the 30-day behavioral calendar, your daily risk status, and the Panic Button are free forever, with no trial expiry and no feature removal. What Pro adds is the reasoning: why your risk is what it is today, your full pattern report after 15 entries, Financial Bleed and Time Recovered, and 6-month history ($9.99/month or $99.99/year).