# Silex — Stop Gambling

> An iPhone and Android app that blocks gambling across the phone, runs a 90-day evidence-based quit program, and tracks the money you keep. No accounts, no ads, and nothing a user writes leaves the phone. Built by Kyrylo Lozovyi. Weekly $2.99 or annual $29.99 with a 7-day free trial.

Each link below is the Markdown version of a page; drop `index.md` for the web page.

The full text of every page, in one file: https://trysilex.com/llms-full.txt

Product documentation (setup, blocking, subscriptions, privacy): https://trysilex.com/docs/llms.txt

## Pages

- [Quit gambling for good. Keep the money.](https://trysilex.com/index.md): Silex blocks gambling across your iPhone or Android phone, walks you through a 90-day evidence-based quit program, and counts the money you keep. No accounts, no ads, no profile of you.
- [Who builds Silex](https://trysilex.com/about/index.md): Silex is built by one developer, Kyrylo Lozovyi, in Kyiv. No investors, no growth team, nothing that profiles you — and a short list of rules the app will not break.
- [The best gambling blocker apps, compared honestly](https://trysilex.com/best-gambling-blocker-apps/index.md): Gamban, BetBlocker, GamBlock and the rest — what each one covers, what it costs, and which to pick. Prices verified from each vendor's own site, with a disclosure: we make one of these.
- [How to block gambling on Android](https://trysilex.com/block-gambling-apps-android/index.md): Android's built-in Private DNS blocks gambling in every app and browser for free, in about two minutes. Plus Digital Wellbeing, Family Link, and which third-party blockers are worth it.
- [How to block gambling sites and apps on iPhone](https://trysilex.com/block-gambling-sites-iphone/index.md): Every working method for blocking gambling on an iPhone — Screen Time, a system-wide DNS profile, Safari content blockers, bank blocks and self-exclusion — with what each one actually covers and how easily you can undo it.
- [How to make your bank decline gambling payments](https://trysilex.com/block-gambling-transactions-bank/index.md): Bank gambling blocks decline payments to betting operators and take days to lift. Which UK banks offer one, what US cardholders can do instead, and why the cooling-off period is the whole point.
- [Silex documentation](https://trysilex.com/docs/index.md): How to set up and use Silex, the iPhone app that blocks gambling and runs a 90-day quit program: protection, the SOS button, the program, subscriptions and privacy.
- [Getting started](https://trysilex.com/docs/getting-started/index.md): What Silex asks during onboarding, why it asks it, the risk score and plan it builds, and the three setup steps that run after you subscribe.
- [Notifications and widgets](https://trysilex.com/docs/notifications/index.md): Every notification Silex sends and when, the discreet wording for shared phones, and the Home Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center widgets.
- [Privacy and your data](https://trysilex.com/docs/privacy-and-data/index.md): What Silex stores, where (your phone and your private iCloud), the two services it uses, how to turn analytics off, and how to delete everything.
- [The 90-day program](https://trysilex.com/docs/program/index.md): How the Silex 90-day program is structured: three phases, one short lesson a day, how days unlock, milestone days, and what happens after a lapse.
- [Progress, money kept and orbs](https://trysilex.com/docs/progress/index.md): How Silex counts gamble-free days, your current run and the money you've kept, plus the daily pledge, the journal and all 20 orbs.
- [Protection layers](https://trysilex.com/docs/protection/index.md): How Silex blocks gambling: the system-wide DNS shield, the Safari content blocker, and the self-exclusion, bank-block and promo layers you set up outside the app.
- [Settings reference](https://trysilex.com/docs/settings/index.md): Every option in Silex Settings: money display, goal and currency, notifications, support links, restoring and managing your subscription, and analytics.
- [The SOS button](https://trysilex.com/docs/sos/index.md): How the Silex SOS flow works step by step, and how to open it from Control Center, Siri and Shortcuts.
- [Subscriptions](https://trysilex.com/docs/subscriptions/index.md): Silex plans and prices, how the free trial and its reminder work, how to cancel, restore a purchase or get a refund, and what keeps working if your subscription ends.
- [Troubleshooting](https://trysilex.com/docs/troubleshooting/index.md): Fixes for the common Silex problems: the DNS shield stuck on Installed, the Safari blocker missing, the paywall after paying, and notifications not arriving.
- [Gamban alternatives](https://trysilex.com/gamban-alternatives/index.md): Gamban costs £4.99 a month or £29.99 a year. Here are the free and paid alternatives that cover the same job, what each does better, and when Gamban is still the right answer.
- [Gambling debt: where to start](https://trysilex.com/gambling-debt-help/index.md): How to deal with debt from gambling — stop the bleeding, work out what's actually owed, get free charity debt advice, and avoid the consolidation traps aimed at people in exactly this position.
- [Gambling loss calculator](https://trysilex.com/gambling-loss-calculator/index.md): Put in what you lose in a typical week and see the yearly, 5-year and 10-year total, plus what the same money would have compounded to. Runs in your browser; nothing is stored.
- [What happens when you stop gambling](https://trysilex.com/gambling-recovery-timeline/index.md): Withdrawal, sleep, mood, money and the danger points — what the first 90 days after quitting gambling commonly look like, and which weeks people actually relapse in.
- [I gambled again — what to do now](https://trysilex.com/gambling-relapse/index.md): A slip is not the end of quitting — how you interpret it decides what happens next. The abstinence violation effect, the practical first hour after a lapse, and how to turn it into information.
- [The 9-question gambling self-check (PGSI)](https://trysilex.com/gambling-self-check/index.md): Take the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) — the same 9-question screener clinicians and helplines use. Runs entirely in your browser, stores nothing, sends nothing.
- [Someone you love is gambling](https://trysilex.com/help-someone-with-gambling-addiction/index.md): Practical steps for partners and families: protect the household money first, why paying the debt backfires, how to have the conversation, and where to get support for yourself.
- [How long do gambling urges last?](https://trysilex.com/how-long-do-gambling-urges-last/index.md): A gambling urge behaves like a wave: it rises, crests and falls, usually inside 20 to 30 minutes, whether or not you bet. What the first weeks feel like, and the urge-surfing technique that uses the pattern.
- [How to stop gambling](https://trysilex.com/how-to-stop-gambling/index.md): A practical, evidence-based plan for quitting gambling: the three barriers to put up first, how to ride out an urge, what the first 90 days look like, and where to get free human help.
- [How to stop sports betting](https://trysilex.com/how-to-stop-sports-betting/index.md): Sports betting is harder to quit than casino gambling because the trigger is the sport itself. What to block, what to do about watching games, and how to handle the group chat.
- [How the program was built, and from what](https://trysilex.com/methodology/index.md): The clinical and academic sources behind Silex's 90-day quit-gambling program: CBT for gambling disorder, the PGSI self-check, relapse-prevention research, and the literature on how gambling products are engineered.
- [A gambling recovery tracker for Notion](https://trysilex.com/notion-recovery-tracker/index.md): One click sets up a quit-gambling tracker in your own Notion: an urge log, a money-kept table and your reasons for stopping. Free, and Silex keeps no copy.
- [Privacy Policy](https://trysilex.com/privacy/index.md): Silex stores nothing about you on any server, holds no accounts, and cannot read anything you write in the app. The full GDPR and UK GDPR notice, including the few places data does leave your phone.
- [Self-exclusion: the strongest block there is](https://trysilex.com/self-exclusion-guide/index.md): How gambling self-exclusion works in the UK via GAMSTOP and in the US state by state, what it covers, what it misses, and why it is the strongest layer available — free, and irreversible on purpose.
- [Support](https://trysilex.com/support/index.md): Help with Silex: subscriptions and cancelling, restoring a purchase, the DNS shield, the Safari blocker, and how to reach a human.
- [Terms of Use](https://trysilex.com/terms/index.md): The terms for the Silex app, this website's free tools, the browser extension and the Notion recovery tracker. Short, plain, and honest about what Silex is not.

## Other languages

- [Glücksspiel auf dem iPhone sperren](https://trysilex.com/de/gluecksspiel-sperren-iphone/index.md) (Deutsch): Glücksspiel auf dem iPhone sperren: Bildschirmzeit, ein DNS-Profil fürs ganze Gerät, Safari-Blocker und OASIS – und was jede Sperre abdeckt.
- [Mit dem Glücksspiel aufhören](https://trysilex.com/de/mit-dem-gluecksspiel-aufhoeren/index.md) (Deutsch): Ein praktischer Plan gegen Spielsucht: drei Sperren für heute, wie du Spieldruck aushältst und wo es in Deutschland kostenlose Hilfe gibt.
- [Spielsucht-Test: die 9 Fragen des PGSI](https://trysilex.com/de/spielsucht-test/index.md) (Deutsch): Mach den PGSI, den Standard-Fragebogen mit 9 Fragen zum Risiko von Glücksspielsucht. Läuft in deinem Browser: nichts wird gespeichert oder gesendet.
- [Verlustrechner fürs Glücksspiel](https://trysilex.com/de/verlustrechner-gluecksspiel/index.md) (Deutsch): Gib ein, was du in einer normalen Woche verlierst, und sieh die Summe nach einem, fünf und zehn Jahren – und was aus dem Geld geworden wäre.
- [Wie lange dauert Spieldruck?](https://trysilex.com/de/wie-lange-dauert-spieldruck/index.md) (Deutsch): Spieldruck verläuft wie eine Welle: Er steigt, bricht und fällt, meist innerhalb von 20 bis 30 Minuten. Was dich in den ersten Wochen erwartet.
- [Deja de apostar para siempre. Quédate con el dinero.](https://trysilex.com/es/index.md) (Español): Silex bloquea el juego en tu iPhone o Android, te acompaña en un programa de 90 días basado en evidencia y cuenta el dinero que guardas. Sin cuentas.
- [Cómo bloquear apuestas y casinos en el iPhone](https://trysilex.com/es/bloquear-apuestas-iphone/index.md) (Español): Cómo bloquear el juego en iPhone: Tiempo de uso, un perfil DNS para todo el dispositivo, bloqueadores de Safari y autoprohibición, y qué cubre cada uno.
- [Calculadora de pérdidas en apuestas](https://trysilex.com/es/calculadora-perdidas-apuestas/index.md) (Español): Pon lo que pierdes en una semana y mira el total en uno, cinco y diez años, y en qué se habría convertido ese dinero. No guarda nada.
- [Cómo dejar de apostar](https://trysilex.com/es/como-dejar-de-apostar/index.md) (Español): Un plan práctico para dejar el juego: las tres barreras que conviene poner hoy, cómo aguantar un impulso y dónde pedir ayuda gratuita en España y Latinoamérica.
- [¿Cuánto duran las ganas de apostar?](https://trysilex.com/es/cuanto-duran-las-ganas-de-apostar/index.md) (Español): Las ganas de apostar son una ola: suben, rompen y bajan, normalmente en 20 a 30 minutos. Qué esperar las primeras semanas y cómo aguantar.
- [Test de ludopatía: las 9 preguntas del PGSI](https://trysilex.com/es/test-ludopatia/index.md) (Español): Haz el test PGSI, el cuestionario estándar de 9 preguntas para valorar el riesgo de adicción al juego. Funciona en tu navegador: no guarda ni envía nada.
- [Arrêter de jouer aux jeux d'argent](https://trysilex.com/fr/arreter-de-jouer-aux-jeux-d-argent/index.md) (Français): Un plan concret pour arrêter les jeux d'argent et les paris : trois barrières à poser aujourd'hui, tenir face à l'envie, et l'aide gratuite en France.
- [Bloquer les sites de paris et casinos sur iPhone](https://trysilex.com/fr/bloquer-sites-paris-iphone/index.md) (Français): Bloquer les jeux d'argent sur iPhone : Temps d'écran, un profil DNS pour tout l'appareil, bloqueurs Safari et interdiction de jeux — ce que couvre chacun.
- [Calculateur de pertes aux jeux d'argent](https://trysilex.com/fr/calculateur-pertes-jeux/index.md) (Français): Indiquez ce que vous perdez en une semaine normale et voyez le total sur un, cinq et dix ans, et ce que cet argent serait devenu. Rien n'est enregistré.
- [Combien de temps dure une envie de jouer ?](https://trysilex.com/fr/combien-de-temps-dure-une-envie-de-jouer/index.md) (Français): L'envie de jouer fonctionne comme une vague : elle monte, culmine et redescend, souvent en 20 à 30 minutes. À quoi s'attendre les premières semaines.
- [Test d'addiction aux jeux : les 9 questions de l'ICJE](https://trysilex.com/fr/test-addiction-jeux-argent/index.md) (Français): Faites l'ICJE, le questionnaire de référence en 9 questions sur le risque d'addiction aux jeux d'argent. Anonyme : rien n'est enregistré.
- [Como bloquear bets e cassinos no iPhone](https://trysilex.com/pt-br/bloquear-apostas-iphone/index.md) (Português): Como bloquear bets no iPhone: Tempo de Uso, um perfil DNS para o aparelho todo, bloqueadores do Safari e autoexclusão — e o que cada um cobre.
- [Calculadora de perdas com apostas](https://trysilex.com/pt-br/calculadora-perdas-apostas/index.md) (Português): Coloque quanto você perde numa semana normal e veja o total em um, cinco e dez anos, e o que esse dinheiro teria virado. Nada fica salvo.
- [Como parar de apostar](https://trysilex.com/pt-br/como-parar-de-apostar/index.md) (Português): Um plano prático para largar as bets: as três barreiras para colocar hoje, como segurar a fissura e onde buscar ajuda gratuita no Brasil.
- [Quanto tempo dura a vontade de apostar?](https://trysilex.com/pt-br/quanto-dura-a-vontade-de-apostar/index.md) (Português): A vontade de apostar é uma onda: sobe, quebra e desce, normalmente em 20 a 30 minutos. O que esperar nas primeiras semanas e como segurar.
- [Teste de vício em apostas: as 9 perguntas do PGSI](https://trysilex.com/pt-br/teste-vicio-em-apostas/index.md) (Português): Faça o PGSI, o questionário padrão de 9 perguntas para avaliar o risco de vício em apostas. Roda no seu navegador: não salva nem envia nada.
- [Как бросить играть в азартные игры](https://trysilex.com/ru/kak-brosit-igrat/index.md) (Русский): Практический план, как бросить ставки и казино: три барьера на сегодня, как переждать тягу к игре и где найти бесплатную помощь.
- [Калькулятор проигрышей](https://trysilex.com/ru/kalkulyator-proigryshey/index.md) (Русский): Введите, сколько вы проигрываете за обычную неделю, и посмотрите сумму за год, пять и десять лет — и во что превратились бы эти деньги.
- [Сколько длится тяга к игре?](https://trysilex.com/ru/skolko-dlitsya-tyaga-k-igre/index.md) (Русский): Тяга к игре похожа на волну: нарастает, достигает пика и спадает, обычно за 20–30 минут. Чего ждать в первые недели и как её переждать.
- [Тест на игровую зависимость: 9 вопросов PGSI](https://trysilex.com/ru/test-na-igrovuyu-zavisimost/index.md) (Русский): Пройдите PGSI — стандартный опросник из 9 вопросов для оценки риска игровой зависимости. Работает в браузере: ничего не сохраняется и не отправляется.
- [Как заблокировать казино и букмекеров на iPhone](https://trysilex.com/ru/zablokirovat-kazino-iphone/index.md) (Русский): Как заблокировать азартные игры на iPhone: Экранное время, DNS-профиль для всего устройства, блокировщики Safari и самоисключение — что закрывает каждый способ.
- [赌博成瘾测试：PGSI 的 9 道题](https://trysilex.com/zh/du-bo-cheng-yin-ce-shi/index.md) (中文): 做一下 PGSI——评估赌博成瘾风险的标准 9 题问卷。在你的浏览器里运行，不保存也不发送任何内容。
- [赌博损失计算器](https://trysilex.com/zh/du-bo-sun-shi-ji-suan-qi/index.md) (中文): 输入你一周通常输掉多少，看看一年、五年、十年的总额，以及这笔钱本可以变成多少。不保存任何内容。
- [赌瘾发作能持续多久？](https://trysilex.com/zh/du-yin-chi-xu-duo-jiu/index.md) (中文): 想赌的冲动就像一道浪：升起、到顶、退去，通常在 20 到 30 分钟内。头几周会经历什么，以及怎样熬过去。
- [如何在 iPhone 上屏蔽赌博网站和 App](https://trysilex.com/zh/iphone-ping-bi-du-bo/index.md) (中文): 在 iPhone 上屏蔽赌博的全部方法：屏幕使用时间、整机 DNS 描述文件、Safari 拦截器和自我禁制，以及各自能覆盖什么。
- [如何戒赌](https://trysilex.com/zh/ru-he-jie-du/index.md) (中文): 一套实用的戒赌方法：今天就该设好的三道屏障、如何熬过想赌的冲动，以及香港、台湾、新加坡的免费求助渠道。