# Boon: Screen Time & Focus > Earn your screen time with focus. Pause Reels & Shorts. Block apps, no guilt. Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.boonapp.boon](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.boonapp.boon) ## Overview - **ID:** `com.boonapp.boon` - **Platform:** Android - **Type:** Android app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Boonapp - **Category:** PRODUCTIVITY - **Downloads:** 18 - **Version:** 3.25.1 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 - **First published:** 2026-10-07 - **Publisher country:** FR - **Size:** 21 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-11-13 - **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boonapp.boon) - **Privacy policy:** [https://yourtsnatures.github.io/boon-privacy/](https://yourtsnatures.github.io/boon-privacy/) ## Description Boon helps you stop mindless scrolling and take back control of your screen time, without quitting the apps you enjoy. The idea is simple: your productive time unlocks your break time.

HOW IT WORKS
• Earn your screen time: minutes on useful apps (language learning, reading, work) or in a focus session fill your reserve.
• Spend it on your leisure apps: social media, videos, games. Each minute comes out of your reserve.
• When your reserve is empty, your leisure apps pause gently until you earn more. No guilt, no cold turkey.

FOCUS TIMER
Put your phone down and start a timed session for real-life activities: reading, sport, study, work. Looking at the timer doesn't count, opening another app does. Every minute you hold earns break time.

BUILT FOR REAL LIFE
• "How long?": when you open a leisure app, Boon can ask how much time you want to spend there, then checks in when time is up.
• "Time left" bubble: see your remaining minutes without leaving the app.
• Simple sliders: choose your apps and your exchange rate, app by app. No numbers to type.
• Life modes: Balance for everyday life, Push for focused days, Respite for hard days.
• "Real need" passes: a few extra minutes when you truly need them, limited and never judged.
• Time reclaimed: see the hours you have taken back from your phone.

AN ALLY, NOT A PRISON
Boon is not here to shame you. You stay in control: you can adjust, pause or turn everything off at any time. No points, no streaks, no pressure, just better phone habits and more time for what matters.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no ads.
• Everything stays on your phone. Boon reads no content and no browsing.
• Anonymous statistics only if you opt in. Off by default.
• Blocking is free and will stay free.

🔒 REELS & SHORTS ON PAUSE (OPTIONAL): USE OF THE ACCESSIBILITY API
Boon offers an optional feature that pauses short-video feeds: Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels. To do this, Boon uses Android's AccessibilityService API, only if you accept it in the app after a clear explanation.
• What Boon reads: only in Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, the technical identifiers of the elements on screen and the name of the selected tab, to recognise the short-video screen.
• What Boon does: tap the app's Home tab, or the "back" button, to take you back to the app's home. Nothing else.
• Your data: nothing is stored, sent or shared. Boon reads no messages, passwords or video content.
• You choose app by app, and you can turn this feature off at any time in Boon or in Android's accessibility settings.

PERMISSIONS, EXPLAINED
• Usage access: to measure time spent in each app. Required.
• Display over other apps: to bring Boon back when your break runs out, and to show the "time left" bubble.
• Notifications and battery: to keep the protection running reliably.

I built Boon for myself after trying apps that were either too strict or too easy to ignore. Your ideas shape what comes next: write to me from the app's settings. ## Rankings - #2,684,417 — Overall ## Permissions and access ### Permissions - `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE` - `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE` - `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE` - `android.permission.INTERNET` - `android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS` - `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS` - `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED` - `android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS` - `android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW` - `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK` - `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE` - `com.boonapp.boon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION` ## Similar extensions and apps - [Focused: Screen Time Control](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.techdev.focused) — 209 users - [Breaktime: Focus App Blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.breaktimeapp.breaktime) — 918 users - [BrainBreak: Focus & App Block](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.brainbreakbacktoreality.app) — 1 users - [ScreenBuddy](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.phax.screenbuddy) — 33 users - [Screen Time Tracker & Limits](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.worldvisionsoft.screentimetracker) — 18 users - [Bounded Focus: App Blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.dedaldev.bounded) — 185 users - [App Blocker: Stay Focused](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.screentime.focus.blocker.productivity.focusguard) — 750 users - [Stillscreen: Focus & Blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.stillscreen.focus) — 13 users - [FocusTime: Focus & App Blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.curioinnominds.focustime) — 8,495 users - [App Blocker: Screen Time Focus](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.duohub.mindfulness) — 4,726 users - [Seize: App Blocker & Focus](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.iurelabs.seize) — 24 users - [Ripen: Focus & Earn Leisure](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.ripen.app) — 38 users --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.boonapp.boon)