Phoneless Garden: Screen Time

Twenty minutes in, you find out it has been twenty minutes.

Phoneless Garden does not block anything. It comes back when your time is up, with the day's total and one question.

Close the app, or keep going. Both are real answers.

HOW IT WORKS

• Pick the apps you want to be more mindful with. Social, video, news, whatever pulls at you.
• Every time you open one, the pause comes first. It shows your time on these apps today, and asks nothing else. Close, or continue.
• Continue and you choose how long. When that time is up, the pause comes back, and this time it asks what you want from the next few minutes.

WHY NO BLOCKING

Blockers punish you, and punishment is easy to switch off. Phoneless Garden takes the opposite approach. It puts one moment of noticing between the reach and the scroll, and leaves the decision with you. Nothing to unlock, no passes to spend, no lockout to wait out.

Not all screen time is wasted time. A long call with a friend is not the same as twenty minutes you cannot account for. This app does not pretend to know the difference. It just makes sure you are the one deciding.

WHAT YOU GET

• A pause with one question, every time you open the apps you choose
• A pause length you can set for each app, from five to ninety seconds
• A daily screen time goal that flexes. The app asks what kind of day it is, so work days and weekends can differ
• A plant that reflects your day. Under your goal it grows, over your goal it rests. It never wilts
• Mood check-ins, so you can see how screen time and mood move together
• A few seconds of journaling when you want it
• Insights into how often you open these apps, when your pauses happen, the timers you pick, and your month as a garden
• Dark mode

PRIVACY

Your data never leaves your phone. No accounts, no email, no analytics, nothing sent anywhere. There is no server to leak.

The pause is free, and stays free. Premium is free to try for two weeks. Two days before it would charge, you get a summary of what it found in your days, so you can decide from your own numbers.

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