Editorial Policy and Corrections

One person writes this site

Every article, guide and comparison on stopbiting.today is written by Igor Gazivoda, who built Stop Biting. There is no editorial team, no staff writers and no guest contributors. His name is the byline on every page because he is the only person it could be.

He is not a clinician, and this site does not pretend otherwise

Igor is a software developer. He bit his nails for more than 20 years — automatically, without noticing, until the damage was already done — and built this app after bitter polish, reminder bands and willpower had each failed him. That lived experience is the qualification this site actually has, and it is the only one it claims. He is not a doctor, dermatologist, dentist, psychologist or researcher. Nothing published here is medically reviewed, and no article is a substitute for a professional who can examine you.

Health topics carry a standing disclaimer

Articles that touch on infection, medication, supplements, children, pregnancy or mental health end with a note saying they are general information rather than medical advice, and pointing readers to the TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors directory of BFRB-informed clinicians. All nine comparison pages carry the same note.

How claims are sourced

• Citations point at the study itself — PubMed, PMC or the publisher — rather than at a news write-up of it.
• Every citation is opened and read against the sentence it is attached to before it ships. Links that turned out not to support their claim have been repointed or removed: one led to a dental-news digest instead of the study, one credited a paper with a characterisation its full text does not contain, and one pointed at a health agency page carrying no nail guidance at all.
• A claim that cannot be traced to a source is softened or deleted. It is never handed a citation that does not support it, and no figure stays on the page merely because it was written down first.

How claims about competing products are checked

Every statement about another company's product is checked against that company's own website — and against the app store listing that site links to, when the two disagree. Each comparison page closes with a dated "How we verified this page" section naming what was checked and when. Competitor details are re-checked quarterly, and the date shown on a page is a date on which a check actually ran.

Corrections that make us look worse get published too

The most recent pass added a fifth behaviour a rival covers that we had left out of its column, credited a progress tracker our copy had implied only we shipped, withdrew a "no Mac version" claim its own store listing contradicted, and stopped asserting a competitor's price that the same vendor's store listing put at something else. Each of those corrections is described on the page it affected, in the reader's view, not in a changelog.

What the dates mean

The updated date on a page is derived from a fingerprint of the text a reader actually sees. Restyling a page, rewriting its markup or changing its structured data does not move that date; changing a sentence does. The same value feeds the visible page, the sitemap and the structured data, so the three cannot disagree with each other.

Commercial disclosure

Stop Biting is a paid product and this site exists to sell it. The pages that compare it head-to-head with a competing app say so in their own opening paragraph rather than leaving you to work it out.

Corrections and contact

If something here is wrong, email hello@stopbiting.today. Corrections are made in the page itself rather than filed in a separate log — one person maintains this site, and a fix a reader can see is worth more than an archive nobody opens. When a correction changes what a page claims, the change is described in that page's own verification section, and the page's updated date moves with it.