Unhooked
Quit porn day counter
Put in the day you stopped. This page counts from it, and day one is the day itself. It shows the next mark on the milestone ladder Unhooked uses, and how many days away it is. The date is written to this browser, so clearing site data clears it — no account, no sign-up.
Your count
Saved only in this browser. Clearing site data clears it.
Day —
Pick a date and the count starts.
- Day 1
- Day 3
- Day 7
- Day 14
- Day 30
- Day 60
- Day 90
- Day 180
- Day 365 — one year
How the day number is worked out
Whole calendar days between today and the date you gave, plus one. The plus one is the whole decision: it makes the day you stopped Day 1, and it is the same rule the app uses, which is why the two numbers never disagree. A date that has not arrived yet gets no count at all rather than a negative one.
Two details in that sentence are doing more work than they look like they are. The date is taken apart into its year, month and day and rebuilt rather than handed to the browser’s own date parser, because “2026-06-30” parses as midnight UTC — which is the previous evening anywhere west of Greenwich, and a whole day off the count for a good part of the world. And the two dates are both reduced to local midnight and then subtracted with the result rounded, never floored, because a day on either side of a daylight-saving change is 23 or 25 hours long and flooring quietly loses one.
The ladder is the nine marks listed above, and it is the app’s own. It is a rhythm and not a schedule: no mark on it is a claim about your body, and the list renders on this page before any script runs, so it is readable with JavaScript switched off. The next mark is whichever one is above your number, and the page says how many days away it is. The numbers themselves are named once on this page, in the questions below, so there is only one sentence to keep true.
Your date is written to one key in this browser’s local storage, and the recovery timeline reads that same key — which is why the two pages always show the same day number, and why clearing site data blanks both of them at once.
What a day count is for
A day count is a record, not a verdict. It says how long it has been and nothing else: not how well you are doing, not whether you will be fine, not what sort of person you are. Its whole use is that it sits there when you look, without you having to remember anything.
And if the count goes back to one, the days before it still happened. A slip does not erase what you built — you learned your own evenings, your own triggers and what an urge feels like when it passes on its own, and none of that is stored in the number. That is the app's law too, and it is why nothing here calls a number good or bad.
What tends to change around each of those marks is set out, milestone by milestone, on the recovery timeline — every line either cited to real research or labelled as reported experience. Unhooked runs the same ladder on your phone, where the count survives a cleared browser.
Questions people ask
Does day one start on the day I quit or the day after?
The day you stopped is day one. It is the hardest single unit of the whole thing and you did it, so it counts. Unhooked uses the same rule on the phone, which is why the two numbers agree.
What are the milestones and where do they come from?
Day 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180 and 365 — the ladder the app uses. It is a rhythm, not a biological schedule, and no mark on it claims anything about your body. What research supports and what people merely report is separated out, mark by mark, on the recovery timeline.
What happens to my date if I clear my browser?
It goes. The date lives in this browser's local storage, so clearing site data, using a private window or switching browsers all give you a blank counter. Put the date back in and the count comes back with it — the arithmetic is the same every time.
What if I slip?
Put in the new date and keep counting. Nothing is undone by it: the weeks you did are weeks you did, and what you learned in them is still yours on the next attempt.
Further reading
- The first week of quitting porn: what to expect Night by night through week one: what is measured, what is only reported, and why the evening — not the day — is the part worth planning.
- Relapsed on NoFap? What to do next Most people slip, and slips cluster early. What the next hour is for, what the evidence says about the verdict you are passing, and the comeback plan.
- Benefits of quitting porn: measured vs reported Sorted honestly into three columns: what is measured, what is only self-reported, and the one benefit that is pure arithmetic — the hours you get back.