Guide
Lock apps until you hit your WHOOP strain
A screen time app that reads your WHOOP. Set a strain goal, and your apps stay shut until your strain gets there.
What you need
An iPhone and a WHOOP. Connect WHOOP when Dwar asks which sources to read, or later on You: you sign in on WHOOP’s own page and allow Dwar to read your cycles, recovery and sleep. From those, Dwar reads four figures: strain, calories, recovery and sleep. It never reads your profile, body measurements, workouts or history.
Set it up
- Choose the habit you want less of. For Instagram in the evening, that’s Doom scrolling, then After work.
- Pick your social apps in iOS’s own picker. Dwar never learns their names.
- With WHOOP connected, After work starts at strain 10. Set it anywhere from 4 to 21, in halves.
Until your strain gets there, the lock screen says what’s left, “1.8 strain to go”, credited “Data by WHOOP”, with two buttons: Check again, and Close.
When it checks
With Dwar closed, it checks WHOOP in the background about every sixteen minutes, so the apps open a little after your strain gets there. Opening Dwar checks at once. The lock screen can’t reach WHOOP itself, so Check again uses the last reading.
Two things to know
Strain counts your current WHOOP cycle, which runs from one sleep to the next, not midnight to midnight. And a WHOOP reading more than six hours old keeps the gate shut until a fresh one arrives.
Can I mix strain with steps?
Yes. Add both goals and choose whether any one opens the gate, or it takes them all.
Can I use recovery or sleep instead?
Yes. Both are scored once, when you wake, so a gate on them is settled for the day by morning. Strain is the one you can still earn after that.
What does Dwar keep?
Only the latest reading, on your phone, replaced at every check. Disconnect WHOOP on You and Dwar asks WHOOP to revoke its access, then deletes your WHOOP sign-in and that reading.