Someone you care about is using Redirect, or thinking about it. This page is for you: partners, friends, family, therapists, coaches, and faith leaders. It explains what you can and can't see, and how to help without becoming the thing they're trying to get away from.
What you can and can't see
Redirect has no account, no dashboard, and no reports. There is nothing for you to log into, and you won't be told when they pause, slip, change a setting, or remove the app. Their journal, check-ins, and history stay on their phone.
That isn't a gap waiting to be filled. Software that watches people tends to teach them to hide, and hiding feeds the very loop they want out of. Redirect keeps the keys with the person using it, so that what they share with you is something they chose to share.
The only way anything reaches you is if they send it.
How to be a good ally
- Ask how you can help, rather than asking for access. "What would be useful from me?" goes further than any setting.
- Meet a hard week with curiosity. "Thanks for telling me" is often the most helpful thing you can say. What they tell you is information, never a verdict.
- Nothing resets. In Redirect a slip doesn't erase progress. Try not to reset anything in your conversations either.
- Let them hold the keys. Don't ask for their app lock or to set their protection for them. If they want help choosing a protection level, help them think it through, then let them press the button.
- Look after yourself too. Their habit isn't yours to fix, and it's fine to want support of your own.
For therapists and coaches
Anyone using Redirect can export a readable JSON file of their own records (profile, logged moments, check-ins, journal entries, weekly reflections, plans, and lesson progress) and choose to share it with you. Exports deliberately leave out guarded apps, allowed sites, and protection-change details, because exported files may be shared with a supporter. Redirect is a self-support tool, not treatment, and is designed to sit alongside your work, not replace it.
What Redirect is not
It isn't parental control, monitoring software, or a way to watch another adult. It can't be set up on someone else's behalf to report back. If that's what you're looking for, Redirect isn't the right tool, and that's on purpose.