What Reddit Says About Screen Time Apps

If the answer is less than four or it only requires your Face ID, the app will lose. Third, does it do one thing? Apps that try to be a habit tracker and a screen-time tool and a mood log all at once tend to become a second feed, which is the opposite of the point.

I like screen zen. It lets you add a timer to opening specific apps so you get a chance to ask yourself if you really need to open it right now, it can limit app use to time, or to number of opens per day, as well as interrupt you after a set ...

I got Norton family, which helps with one aspect of my tech addiction- porn. It doesn’t really limit screen time… at least for Apple phones. Highlyyyy recommend that to anyone struggling with porn, though, and for that alone… it works realllyyy well. Too well, almost hah (blocking some things that a...

One Sec. It's got me down to only opening Facebook twice/day for 5 minutes at a time. I was addicted to doomscrolling before. ... The best app to reduce screen time is deleted app.

Now I just need to slowly roll back my allotted times. ... just uninstall all the apps and only browse through a computer. its surprisingly easy after a week or two of adjustment ... StayFree is pretty good. You can block apps with a pin or with a text (you have to write something and the write it a...

On my computer, I use something called StayFocusd and it works amazing for me (especially their nuclear mode). They at one point had an app but it…

Opal works for me. Set the strictness to maximum and it just locks you out with no option to use the application. If you are really in a pinch, you could always go to screen time and then scroll down to always allowed and then select the application manually.

I tried Opal, Jomo, Screenzen and a few more but I keep deleting them. Have any of you found success with one of those apps? Share ... And don't say you need them, you're happy to delete a screen time app even though you clearly need it.

Also: it can block by app, by website, by keyword, by reels/shorts; block by certain duration, at certain time of the day/week; by number of launches, etc. It is highly customizable in my opinion. ... check out ScreenZen! I can't recommend it enough.

It killed my wifi speed, ate my battery, and sometimes blocked stuff it shouldnt have. Also another subscription. Starting to see a pattern here. The smaller ones that honestly just wasted my time: AppBlock - Bare minimum functionality wrapped in aggressive upgrade prompts. The free tier blocks like...

I wanted a better way to understand how I spend my time on my Mac, so I created a free, privacy-first alternative to ScreenTime. Screenlight is more powerful, works entirely offline, and keeps all your data local. Most of the app is written in Rust, so it stays fast and lightweight.

You need to figure out and treat what makes you pick up the phone, then your screen time goes down automatically as a consequence. Can’t type more now haha, but happy to chat. DM me if you want my help and we’ll figure out your root causes ;) ... Beeper App can help if you regularly use instagram DM...

And it makes you go thru it again after x mins (whatever you tell ir$. ... I've used OffScreen for a couple years now. ... I've used Opal, Screenzen, and all of the other top screen time apps, and the one that actually worked for me was LockMyApps (I still use this for setting time blocks ...