UrgePocket
Gambling cessation app
UrgePocket is an in-the-moment survival tool for gambling. When the urge hits, you do something with it. You don’t wait to write it down later.
Freezing one gambling urge at a time.
UrgePocket
Ride the wave, then freeze it
Gambling cessation · Confidential
Freezing one gambling urge at a time
0
Frozen
$0
Saved
Tap the drop. It freezes, and $12 lands in Saved.
The urge, made physical
01
That blue drop is the urge. Liquid moves inside it, and three drops fall off the bottom. Tap “I am having an urge” and it freezes solid into icicles, with a haptic hit. A mental craving becomes something you can hold still.
02
Not a generic stress tracker. UrgePocket is for the loop that actually pulls people back in: an ad, a casino nearby, payday, a win you keep replaying, loss chasing, a sports game, a notification on your phone.
03
The freeze is the front door. Behind it: a panic pause, a journal, a shield, and numbers that matter — urges frozen, and money you didn’t send back to the house.
When it usually starts
These aren’t vague moods. They’re the situations that turn a quiet thought into a bet.
What’s in the pocket
The wave, the freeze, the icicles. Tap when the urge hits and watch it lock into ice.
A breathing timer, grounding, and a 60-second lock so you can’t act on the impulse.
Log the trigger, how strong it felt from 1 to 10, and what you were feeling.
Blockers and coping tools, including the gambling sites to shut out before the next urge.
Urges frozen, and money saved. Set each freeze to $12 — or whatever that urge would have cost — and it adds up fast.