Why is it so hard to protect a day from your phone?
Because the phone never asks for the day. It asks for a minute. A like, a story, one more video: each one is small enough to say yes to, and it lands right when you're between things, finishing a set at the gym or starting the hard part of a task. None of them feels like losing a block. Added up, they are the block. That's the whole game: no single card ruins Tuesday, but the ones that land do.
The game also makes you defend the day in real time, and by 9pm it's tiring on purpose. Deciding card by card, all day, is the hard way to do it. The easier way is to decide earlier: what the day is for, and which apps aren't available while you're doing it. On an iPhone, Screen Time can do part of this with Downtime and App Limits, if you set them up around your actual schedule.
That's what Plan7 is for. It builds your week around one 30-day goal and blocks distracting apps (and websites) during the focus and sleep blocks it schedules, so you don't have to swipe. The game's alarm has a snooze button; Plan7's wake-up alarm missions (iOS 26) don't snooze. iOS always shows a Stop button on alarms, and if you stop it, the alarm rings again a minute later until the mission is done.
Questions people ask
How is the Don't Lose Tuesday score worked out?
Your Tuesday runs from 7am to 11pm, so there are 16 hours to keep. Each distraction that lands eats 15 to 30 minutes of the block it hits, tapping a fake task costs 30 to 45, every snooze costs 15, and the 9pm doomscroll eats half a minute of every game minute it stays up. Once the phone has eaten 8h, your day has fallen, and the label says when. The "% of players lost more" line is approximate: it comes from a fixed score curve written into the game, not from live scores, because nothing you play is stored.
Why does everyone get the same Tuesday?
The day's notifications, their timing and the wake-up sum come from a random seed made from the date (UTC), so everyone playing on the same day gets the same Tuesday, numbered from the first one. A challenge link plays your friend's Tuesday, so you face the same distractions they did.
Is it free? Do I need an account?
It's free and there's no sign-up. The game runs in your browser and doesn't store your score. If you share a result, the score goes in the link so it opens as a challenge, and the share image is drawn from that link each time.