Phoneless Garden: Screen Time

Twenty minutes in, you find out it has been twenty minutes. Phoneless Garden is a screen time app that does not block anything. It puts a gentle pause between you and the apps you choose, so less of your day disappears into doomscrolling. Think of it as a small digital detox at the moment you reach for your phone. Close the app, or keep going. Both are okay. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps you want to be more mindful with. Social media, video, news, whatever pulls at you and breaks your focus. • Every time you open one, the pause comes first. It shows your time on these apps today. 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 • Your own words on the pause: write what you would rather do, and the pause shows it every other time • Gentler questions on days you log your mood as Low or Hard • 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 and the timers you pick • A pause length you can set for each app, from five to ninety seconds (Premium) • Your month as a garden (Premium) • Home screen widgets (Premium) • Dark mode HOW THE PAUSE APPEARS Phoneless Garden uses Android's Accessibility service to notice when you open one of the apps you chose, so the pause can appear right away. It only sees which app is opened. It never reads what is on your screen or what you type, and nothing leaves your phone. You turn it on during setup and can turn it off in Android settings at any time. PRIVACY Your pauses, moods and notes stay on your phone. No accounts, no email, no tracking. Purchases go through Google Play and RevenueCat. 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. Terms of Use: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/privacy