Intent: Open Apps Mindfully

Intent helps you build a healthier relationship with distracting apps by adding a calm pause before automatic opening habits.

Instead of trying to control you, Intent helps you notice what is happening: how often you reach for selected apps, how much time they take today, and whether opening them is really what you want right now.

Choose the apps you want to monitor, such as social media, video, news, or any other app you personally want to use more intentionally. When Intent detects that a selected app is opened, it can show a full-screen pause experience with a short reflection timer, usage context, and a clear choice: continue intentionally or step away.

Intent is built for self-awareness, not punishment.


Key Features
- Mindful pause screen for selected apps
- Track app openings and estimated time spent today
- Real-life time comparisons that make screen time easier to understand
- Daily history for monitored apps
- Lifetime perspective based on today's monitored app usage
- Per-app pause settings
- Home widget for quick awareness
- Clean dark interface designed for calm focus
- Free monitoring for up to 2 apps
- Pro unlocks unlimited monitored apps, detailed past history, breathing pause, and custom note pause


Why Use Intent?

Many app openings are automatic. You pick up your phone, tap Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, or another app, and only realize later that more time passed than expected.

Intent creates a moment between impulse and action.
That moment is the product.
It gives you enough space to ask:

- Do I actually want to open this?
- Is this the best use of the next few minutes?
- Would I rather take a walk, call someone, read, stretch, cook, or simply step away?

Intent does not shame you for opening apps. It helps you make the decision consciously.


Privacy And Trust

Intent is not parental control software.
Intent is not surveillance software.
Intent does not read your messages, feeds, photos, videos, keystrokes, or app content.
Intent uses Android usage metadata for apps you choose to monitor, such as openings and estimated time spent. Overlay permission is used to show the pause screen above selected apps when Android allows it.
You stay in control of which apps are monitored.


Pro Plan
Intent Pro is for people who want deeper self-awareness and more customization.

Pro includes:

- Unlimited monitored apps
- Detailed usage history beyond today
- Breathing exercise pause screen
- Custom note pause screen
- Per-app pause customization

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