The short answer#
There isn't one “best” quit porn app, because the apps that show up for this search aren't doing the same job. Fortify and Quittr are recovery platforms built around AI coaching and community. Covenant Eyes and Brainbuddy are built around blocking, and Covenant Eyes adds a person who sees your activity on top of that. Firmhold does none of those things. It logs what happens, waits until there is enough data to be honest, and tells you the pattern behind it.
What each app actually does#
Fortify (joinfortify.com) pairs a recovery curriculum with “AI Coaching” as its headline paid feature, plus a community of “allies” and milestone-based “journeys.” Their own homepage describes it as the “1st recovery platform to offer personalized predictive insights.”
Quittr (quittrapp.com) centres on a streak dashboard with collectible achievement tiers, a community forum, a content blocker, a panic button, and an AI companion called Melius, marketed as 24/7 support through urges. In March 2026, 404 Media reported a data breach at Quittr that exposed sensitive information, including age and self-reported habits, with many of the affected users being minors. The cause was a misconfigured database, and independent researchers had warned the company for months beforehand. Their current privacy policy is dated the same day that report was published.
Covenant Eyes (covenanteyes.com) blocks content and sends screenshots of your activity to a person you nominate, an “ally.” That is the entire mechanism, stated plainly in their own marketing: freedom through transparency, with another person providing the transparency.
Brainbuddy (brainbuddyapp.com) is CBT-led: a curriculum, a content filter they describe as the most advanced blocker available, progress statistics, a journal, and community challenges. It is the one competitor here that does not advertise AI.
Firmhold has no blocker, no community, no streak, no AI, and no other person. It records relapses and survived urges, waits until there are enough entries to be honest (fifteen or more), then surfaces the plain-heuristic pattern behind them: time of day, day of week, stress, being alone. Nothing is shown to anyone else, and nothing runs through a language model.
Side by side#
| Firmhold | Fortify | Quittr | Covenant Eyes | Brainbuddy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core mechanism | Finds the pattern behind your urges | AI coaching plus ally community | Gamified streaks plus AI companion | Reports your activity to a person you choose | CBT curriculum plus content blocker |
| Blocker | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Community | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Streaks / gamification | No, deliberately | Journeys | Yes, central | No | Challenges |
| AI on your data | None, ever | Yes, headline feature | Yes ("Melius") | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Shows your activity to a human | Nobody | Allies | No | Yes, by design | No |
| Free tier | Yes: logging, calendar, daily risk, panic button | Yes, limited | No published price anywhere, in-app only | No, 30-day money-back guarantee instead | No published price anywhere, in-app only |
What each one costs#
Checked on each product's own pricing page, live, on 11 August 2026. Firmhold is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Fortify has a free Basic tier and a Premium tier at $12 a month or $120 a year, plus a discounted $6.95/mo student tier and a free teen tier, both by application. Covenant Eyes Victory is $18 a month, $198 a year, or $950 for a lifetime licence, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee rather than a free trial: you pay first, then can get refunded within 30 days if it isn't for you.
Quittr and Brainbuddy are a different case, and worth naming rather than skipping past. We checked both companies' own websites, their App Store listings and their Google Play listings on 11 August 2026, and neither publishes a single price anywhere public. Both sell exclusively through an in-app purchase screen that only appears once you have already installed the app, and several reviews on both listings describe inconsistent billing (a lifetime deal priced against a much higher “regular” price on one, a user billed annually after expecting monthly on the other). We are not going to publish a number we scraped from a review or a stale search result, so if price matters to your decision on either of these two, check inside the app before you commit to anything.
Which one fits you#
- Fortify may fit you if you want AI coaching and a community of allies, and you are comfortable typing what you are going through into a chatbot.
- Quittr may fit you if you want gamified streaks and a large public community, and you have weighed their privacy history and are comfortable with it.
- Covenant Eyes may fit you if you want another person to see your activity, on purpose, as the mechanism, and you have someone safe to nominate.
- Brainbuddy may fit you if you want a CBT curriculum and a blocker, without AI.
- Firmhold may fit you if you want to understand the pattern behind your own relapses, shown to nobody, computed by fixed rules rather than a chatbot, with a panic button that stays free permanently.
What we are not claiming#
Firmhold is new, and we have no results data of our own to publish. So there are no success rates, no testimonials and no user counts on this page, and there won't be until we have real numbers behind them.
That is also a habit worth carrying into the rest of this category. Several of these products advertise specific improvement percentages or user counts on their own homepages. Some link to a source. Several don't. Before a marketing page changes your mind, it is worth checking which kind of number you are looking at.
Try Firmhold free
Logging, your calendar, daily risk status and the panic button are free, with no card. If you upgrade and it isn't for you, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Start free, no card neededCommon questions#
What's the best app to quit porn?
There isn't a single best one, because the main options in this category aren't doing the same job. Fortify and Quittr are built around AI coaching and community. Covenant Eyes and Brainbuddy are built around blocking, and Covenant Eyes adds a person who sees your activity. Firmhold does none of those and finds the pattern behind your relapses instead. Which one is right depends on which of those you actually want.
Is there a quit porn app without a content blocker?
Yes: Fortify and Firmhold. Firmhold doesn't block anything by design. If a blocker is genuinely what helps you, one of the others, or a dedicated blocker, will serve you better than we will.
Is there a quit porn app without AI?
Firmhold, Covenant Eyes and Brainbuddy don't advertise AI features. Firmhold specifically never sends your data to a language model or any third party; pattern analysis runs as fixed, deterministic rules on our own servers.
Which quit porn app is free?
Firmhold and Fortify both have limited free tiers. Covenant Eyes doesn't offer one; it backs a paid subscription with a 30-day money-back guarantee instead. Quittr and Brainbuddy's free-versus-paid split isn't published anywhere outside the app itself, so check there directly before assuming.
Which is cheapest?
Among the apps with a price published anywhere public, as of 11 August 2026: Firmhold at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, against Fortify at $12/$120 and Covenant Eyes at $18/$198. Quittr and Brainbuddy don't publish a price on their own sites or either app store listing; both are set only inside an in-app purchase screen after install, so they can't be included in this comparison honestly.
Sources#
- Fortify, pricing page, checked live 11 August 2026: free Basic tier, Premium at $12 monthly or $120 annual, $6.95/mo student tier and a free teen tier (both by application).
- Fortify, homepage, checked 8 August 2026: “1st recovery platform to offer personalized predictive insights,” AI Coaching listed as a headline paid feature.
- Quittr, own site (quittrapp.com), checked 8 August 2026: feature set including streak dashboard, community, content blocker, panic button, and the Melius AI companion; privacy policy dated 10 March 2026.
- Quittr, App Store and Google Play listings, checked live 11 August 2026: neither lists a price; both require installing the app to see in-app purchase pricing.
- 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg, 10 March 2026 and 6 April 2026: reporting on the Quittr data breach, its cause, and its disclosure timeline.
- Covenant Eyes, Victory plan pricing page, checked live 11 August 2026: $18 monthly, $198 annual, $950 lifetime, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Covenant Eyes, published product description of its screenshot-and-ally mechanism and its stated philosophy of freedom through transparency.
- Brainbuddy, homepage (brainbuddyapp.com) and App Store and Google Play listings, checked live 11 August 2026: feature set and CBT positioning confirmed; no price shown on any of the three.
- Firmhold pricing and feature split as published on our own pricing page and enforced in the product.
Fortify, Quittr, Covenant Eyes and Brainbuddy are products of their respective companies. We are not affiliated with any of them, and this page is our own comparison rather than theirs. Everything stated about their products comes from their own published material or named journalism on the dates shown. Prices and features change, so check each one's own site before you decide.