NOPECUBE

What we don’t do

Version 1.1 · 24 September 2026

NOPECUBE should become a reflex in your own moments, then get out of the way. For a boundary tool, dependence would be a failure. This page lists what we will not build, even if a metric would go up. It is a product decision, not an experiment: no test result, competitor or drop in numbers reopens an item. The list only grows, and every change is dated in the changelog.

Mechanics we will never use

  1. No streaks, and no streak repair.
  2. No points, badges, gems or any other virtual currency.
  3. No leaderboards, no comparison between people and no “X% of users” social proof.
  4. No single wellbeing, focus or “boundary” score.
  5. No guilt, shame or loss-framed messages, no sad mascot, and no “you missed”, “you broke” or “you slipped” language.
  6. No random rewards, surprise boxes or variable reward loops.
  7. Nothing that dies, fades or sulks, and no group penalties.
  8. No scarce “emergency exits”, and breaks never become a currency. OPEN is always one movement away, without limit.
  9. No weekly subscriptions.
  10. No sales, upgrades, cube promotion or rating prompts at a ritual moment: the NOPE or OPEN movement, the closing bell, the closing or the first boundary screen.
  11. No mode you cannot cancel and no mode OPEN cannot lift.
  12. No endless daily content and no feeds.
  13. No AI therapist, and no model that answers what you write with emotional or clinical interpretation.
  14. No automatic NOPE from sensors, location, mood, usage or inference.

How NOPECUBE brings you back

We do want NOPE to become a habit, and we say so openly. We will not be the ones calling you back; your own moments will. Some of these arrive in later versions.

  1. Triggers you set. The app notifies you only for appointments you set yourself, such as the closing bell.
  2. The same movement and the same NOPECUBE click, every time. A sensory pleasure, never a random reward.
  3. Loops you want closed. What you put in the cube comes back once, at the time you chose. In development for 0.7.
  4. A visible effect. If you turn it on, your boundary shows where the cube would sit: the lock screen and your wrist. It never shows what you wrote, and OPEN undoes all of it. Coming with 0.8, in development for internal testing. A quieter phone with NOPE Mode on Android is planned; it reaches testers only once it turns off reliably on every phone.
  5. A record that belongs to you. Off by default. It lists closures in both directions, with no numbers or totals, and never breaks. In development for 0.7.

How we offer a feature

What we will never count as success

What we care about is the number of loops closed each week: a NOPE you started at a moment of your choosing and ended deliberately, with OPEN or by planning, letting go of or answering what you set aside. Your device never totals them for you; if you keep your own record, it lists them there and nowhere else. We learn from pilots people agree to join, not from tracking.

Pricing principles

  1. The core is free, for good: the ritual, all four doors and what each door remembers, the closing bell and the other signals you turn on, the shortcuts and other ways in, the watch apps and sync.
  2. Protective features are never paid: OPEN, Undo, deleting your data, exporting it, turning notifications off, privacy settings and clearing any effect NOPE had.
  3. NOPE Guard would be free. Guard is an iPhone feature we are only exploring. It needs Apple’s approval and may never ship, and we promise no date. If it ships, it will be optional for each ritual, OPEN will always lift it, and we will describe it as a commitment aid that can break after an iOS update. You will not pay for it: Apple’s rules do not allow charging for Screen Time features, and protection is never paid.
  4. A subscription only for a real server cost. It could exist only for a documented, recurring server cost, and only for the feature that causes it.
  5. No weekly plans, and no trial that turns into a weekly charge.
  6. No billing in the app at version 1.0. Our income is meant to come from the cube. When it goes on sale, it will be sold on the web, never as an in-app purchase.
  7. Sales only in Settings, in About and on this site. Never at a ritual moment, in an offer or in a notification.
  8. A cube is never required. Later, anything a cube unlocks in the app will also be available to buy in the app, and functions that need the cube itself are free. Prices are fixed: no drops, seasonal or limited-time sales. Editions are alternatives, not upgrades, and the free default click stays as good as it is today. Regional prices, including Turkish lira.

How we talk about evidence

Privacy and what others see

The full details are in the privacy policy.

Changelog