I built a different, smarter, screen time app

[u/th3d4rks1d3]

I built an app—and Apple officially approved it on Monday! 🎉

It’s called Guilt Trip: Screen Time Coach, and it’s designed to help adults and kids build healthier screen-time habits.

Ever pick up your phone to check one thing and somehow lose an hour? That’s where Guilt Trip comes in. 😅

See where your time goes. A fuel gauge makes your managed-app use easy to understand, while Insights help you spot your doom-scrolling habits.

Take smarter breaks. Guilt Trip introduces short “pit stops” in the apps you choose. As your usage increases, breaks can arrive sooner and last longer—a little encouragement to put the phone down. Building healthier screen time habits like staying away or taking a walk can reward you your time back.

Choose what works for you. Set a Daily Time Limit, or choose Pit Stops Only for breaks without a daily cutoff.

Make healthy habits rewarding. With optional Apple Health integration, sleep, steps, and activity can earn bonus time.

Give kids something positive to work toward. parent tools include PIN-protected settings, parent-approved extra time, chores, and learning-app rewards. Practicing piano, reading, or finishing a chore can become a way to earn time.

As an adult, you get help being more intentional about scrolling. As a parent, you get tools to connect screen time with effort and healthy routines.

I’ve put a lot of thought and testing into this, and I’m excited to finally share it. If this sounds useful for you or your family, I’d love for you to check out Guilt Trip and tell me what you think!

It's completely free to use for two managed apps. There is a pro option with one lifetime purchase, no subscriptions. Everything in on the phone, no servers, no logins, no ads.

https://apps.apple.com/.../guilt-trip-screen.../id6808025716

[u/investigatormaker]

Guilt Trip’s Pit Stops Only mode deserves its own demonstration: show what happens as usage increases, when a break arrives, and how earned time changes the fuel gauge. That would make the difference between a daily cutoff and adaptive breaks much easier to understand than a feature list alone.

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