Cashout is a small, independent project — one person building an app for quitting gambling, plus a free library of guides for people who need the information now and can't wait for an App Store launch.
I built Cashout because I needed it. The worst nights weren't the losing — they were opening the app again at 2am knowing exactly how it ends. What actually helped was boring and unglamorous: making the next fifteen minutes survivable, bricking up the door so 2am me couldn't get through it, and seeing in plain dollars that stopping was working.
Everything on this site comes out of that: the guides are the research I did for myself, checked against primary sources and written the way I wish someone had written it for me — without shame, without a sales pitch, and without pretending the fix is easy.
Questions, corrections, or something on this site that's out of date? hello@trycashout.com — corrections get priority.
Program rules, helpline numbers, bank policies and statistics link to the primary source — the regulator, the operator, the bank itself — never to another blog summarising it. The source list sits at the bottom of each article so you can check it yourself.
Every crisis number on this site is checked against the operator's own page before publication. The directory carries the date it was last verified — currently August 19, 2026 — and it is re-checked before each release.
The blocker apps, banks and programs recommended here are recommended because they work. Nothing on this site is paid placement, and no page earns a commission when you sign up elsewhere.
The helpline directory and the cost calculator are free and will never sit behind an account or a paywall. Cashout is a paid app; getting help is not.
State self-exclusion doesn't bind offshore casinos. Blockers can be uninstalled. Bank blocks have cooling-off periods. Every guide names the gap rather than overselling the fix.
Cashout is a self-help tool, written by someone who has been through it — not a clinician. It is not therapy, diagnosis or medical advice, and it says so on every page that could be mistaken for it.
Streak and money tracking, a panic button for the fifteen minutes an urge lasts, a day-by-day program built on CBT techniques, and device-level blocking wired to real self-exclusion. One email at launch — nothing else.