Drunk Dial Blocker is a utility app for iOS that restricts access to selected contacts during scheduled windows to prevent impulsive communication.
Product velocity
Unknown
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Utilities
Sentiment
1.0
7 reviews
Nemesis
ALICE Staff
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to create a cognitive and technical barrier against impulsive actions while under the influence, protecting their social and professional reputation.
For Social drinkers who wish to prevent impulsive calls, messages, or orders while under the influence.
What does it look like?
Key features
Restricts access to selected contacts during pre-set windows.
Requires solving a puzzle to bypass blocks, acting as a cognitive barrier to impulsive behavior.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility with no visible monetization, likely abandoned.
Velocity
Steady developmentShow more...
Who built it?
Dropouts Technologies LLP
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans frustrated.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Core functionality failure
Competition
Competitive landscape for Drunk Dial Blocker
How's the Utilities market?
Drunk Dial Blocker holds a #78 Grossing rank in its category but suffers from a 1-star rating across 7 reviews. This low engagement signals that the app is no longer a viable market participant.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By FIVEPALS, LLC
ALICE Staff competes by occupying the professional utility space, representing a more robust, enterprise-grade version of the task-management and access-control logic that Drunk Dial Blocker attempts to solve for personal behavior.
- Offers sophisticated property-specific access control that far exceeds basic personal contact blocking functionality
- Maintains a massive enterprise user base providing deep data moats unavailable to personal utility apps
- Provides complex staff task management workflows that dwarf the simple binary blocking logic of our app
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Key takeaways for Drunk Dial Blocker
Where is it heading?
The utility market has consolidated around stable, enterprise-grade tools, leaving abandoned personal utilities like Drunk Dial Blocker obsolete. The lack of maintenance ensures that the app will continue to lose functionality, so the only logical path is to sunset the product.
- The app has not received an update since 2017, leading to total functional decay on modern iOS versions.
- Users report the app fails to block calls as scheduled, which directly causes the 1-star rating and churn.
The SWOT
- Puzzle-verification mechanism acts as a cognitive barrier to impulsive behavior
- Niche demand for impulse-control utilities remains unserved by stable, modern competitors
Next best moves
Sunset the app because it fails its core blocking promise → eliminate brand drag.
The counter-intuitive read
The app's failure is not a lack of market demand…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Real-time task tracking (available in ALICE Staff but absent here) +1
Since the last report: The report reflects a terminal product state, adding specific technical threats and market rank data while maintaining the recommendation to sunset.
Bottom line
Drunk Dial Blocker is a failed utility that cannot perform its core blocking function, so the PM should sunset the project to avoid further brand damage and focus resources on a modern, stable impulse-control solution.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 2 market threats and the analyst’s take.
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- [1] App Store, source
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