LoopCut: Screen Time & Focus

Spend less time in distracting apps. Leave when you meant to. LoopCut helps you reduce screen time, avoid mindless scrolling, and stay focused—without giving up the apps you still need. Before a guarded app opens, choose why and for how long. If you continue past your plan, LoopCut gradually increases the friction—from a simple check-in to a real reset. 🧠 Pause Before Autopilot Before TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Chrome, or another guarded app opens, LoopCut asks whether you really need it now. 🎯 Open With a Plan Choose your purpose and planned duration. Turn an impulsive opening into a conscious, time-limited session. 🪜 When One Pause Isn’t Enough When your planned time ends, stopping remains immediate. If you keep going, LoopCut’s Escalation Ladder makes continuing progressively more deliberate: • Check-in — notice that your plan has ended • Pause — wait before extending • Recommit — define one specific task • Final check — hold to continue once • Reset — step away after repeated extensions Choose Gentle, Balanced, or Strong protection for each guarded app. ⚡ Finish One Quick Task Reply, check a link, scan a QR code, or handle something urgent with short, limited access—without turning protection off. 🌙 Protect Your Sleep Sleep Guard keeps distracting apps blocked during your bedtime window while essential apps remain available. Urgent access is still possible when genuinely needed. 🔒 Privacy First LoopCut uses Android Accessibility Service only to detect when selected apps open and display the correct intervention. It does not read your messages, typed text, browsing history, or personal content. ⚗️Research based: behind the anti-addictive app design are a peer-reviewed PNAS study on app-opening self-nudges and a 2024 MuC study on design friction in infinite-scroll feeds. • PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213114120 • MuC 2024: https://doi.org/10.1145/3670653.3677495 LoopCut combines screen time control, focus support, and app blocker protection for more intentional phone use. 🌍 Available in English, German, and Chinese.