ScrollTax: Earn Screen Time

What if doomscrolling had a price?

ScrollTax locks your most addictive apps. Earn them back by reading, focusing, doing chores, working, walking, working out, or going outside. The system enforces it.

Every 5 minutes of screen time costs 1 tax point. Hit zero and your apps re-lock automatically. Go over budget and the overage becomes debt — it carries into tomorrow, so you start the next day already in the red until you work it off.

Your phone, on a budget.

HOW IT WORKS

Pick your apps.
Select any apps to put on a budget using the iOS Screen Time picker. Social media, games, news, browsers — they're locked by default.

Earn tax points.
· Reading — 10 min = 1 point
· Focus — 10 min = 1 point
· Chores — 15 min = 1 point
· Work — 60 min = 1 point, tracked by your iPhone Work Focus
· Steps — 2,000 steps = 1 point
· Workout — 15 min = 1 point
· Mindfulness — 10 min = 1 point
· Standing — 3 hours = 1 point
· Sunlight — 15 min outside = 1 point (Apple Watch)
· Sleep — 7+ hours = 2 points, from Apple Health or your Sleep Focus
Each source has a daily cap, so no single habit can buy the whole day.

Spend your budget.
1 point = 5 minutes of screen time. Tracked automatically in the background. Hit zero and your apps re-lock on their own. You also get 30 free grace minutes every day.

MEET ZUNŌ

A little brain that lives on your Home screen. Its mood follows your balance: bright when you're earning, frazzled when you're scrolling. Poke it, pet it, keep it happy. Prefer a quieter look? Switch to Classic.

WORK MODE AND SLEEP MODE

Add ScrollTax to your iPhone Work or Sleep Focus. While the Focus is on, your taxed apps stay locked, and the time counts as work or sleep. When it turns off, they reopen.

THE LOCK IS REAL

ScrollTax uses Apple's own Screen Time enforcement. There's no dismiss button, no three-tap override. If you want Instagram, you have to earn it. Yes, that means walking 2,000 steps.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS

ScrollTax never sees which apps you open or what you view. No account. No ads. Your history syncs through your own iCloud.

FREE
· All ten earn sources
· Work mode and Sleep mode
· 30 grace minutes per day
· 1 emergency unlock per day
· Debt carryover — overage rolls to tomorrow
· Live Activity and widgets
· Hard mode — disable the emergency unlock
· Your last 7 days of progress

SCROLLTAX PRO
· Custom earn rates and grace
· Debt controls
· Trends, patterns and your full history

ScrollTax. Your phone, on a budget.

Legal:
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://scrolltax.hipporasy.dev/privacy
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