Inside the app
Sale Armor blocks your shopping apps on payday, late nights and every sale you fall for — then tracks the money you didn't spend.
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Pick your shopping apps and when to shut them: payday, 9pm–2am, weekends, 11.11, Black Friday, or any dates you choose. It arms and stands down on its own.
Still want it? Put it in Sale Armor instead of your basket — the name, the price, the link. It waits three days while the urge wears off.
After three days Sale Armor asks once: still worth it? Everything you turn down is added to your Not Spent total. That number is the whole score.
The schedules are built around spending risk, not screen time.
| Sale Armor | App blockers | Budgeting apps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intervenes | Before you buy | Around attention | After you spend |
| Schedules | Payday, sales, late night | Focus sessions | — |
| Success is | Money not spent | Screen time down | Knowing where it went |
| Bank access | Never | — | Required |
| Account needed | No | Usually | Yes |
Sale Armor is not a budgeting app. It never connects to your bank, imports a transaction or categorises a purchase. Budgeting apps tell you where your money went. This one stops it leaving.
iOS hands Sale Armor a sealed token it cannot read, so the app never learns which apps you blocked. That is a limit of the system, not a promise about careful handling. No account, no analytics, no ads, and nothing leaves your phone except whether you've paid.
No streaks. No goals. No notification telling you you've slipped — only one question, three days after you park something.
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, in Settings, at least a day before the period ends. Lifetime is one payment and never renews. iPhone, iOS 17 and later.
It blocks the shopping apps you choose during the windows you overspend, using Apple's Screen Time. When you still want something you park it in the app instead of buying it. After three days Sale Armor asks once whether you still want it, and anything you turn down is added to your Not Spent total.
No. There is no bank connection, no transaction import and no spending categories. It works before the money leaves, not after.
Those are built for focus and screen time. Sale Armor is built for spending triggers — payday, late nights, 9.9 and 11.11, Black Friday — and it holds the purchase you were about to make rather than only blocking the app.
No. iOS returns a sealed token the app cannot read. Prices in your parked list are ones you typed yourself, and they stay on your phone.
Your parked list and Not Spent total are gone, because nothing is stored anywhere else. Your subscription survives — reinstall and tap Restore. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
Not yet. iPhone only, iOS 17 or later, because it is built on Apple's Screen Time.