Scrollbreak: reclaim your time

Setup breaks for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube... Short breaks will drastically reduce your scroll time !

You never planned to scroll for an hour. You opened the app for five minutes. After that the feed decided how long you stayed, and it is very good at its job. That is the part nobody chooses, and the part nobody sees.

Scrollbreak gives you the choice back, and gives you the number.

HOW IT WORKS

Pick the apps that eat your time. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whichever ones they are.

From then on, every time you reach your scrolling limit in those apps, they are blocked for a 5 minute break. When the break is over they open again on their own. That is the whole loop, and it repeats for as long as you keep scrolling.

No willpower required. The break does the work.

THE 5 MINUTE BREAK

Every break lasts 5 minutes. Scrollbreak shows you exactly how long your apps stay blocked, and when the time is up they open again on their own. There is nothing to tap and nothing to read.

You do not have to sit and watch it. The break runs on the clock whether the app is open or not, so you can put your phone down or go and do something else, and if what you were doing was important, come back to it 5 minutes later.

SEE THE REAL NUMBER

Every minute of scrolling is counted. The app shows you your total for today, yesterday, your 7 day and 30 day averages, your week by week trend, your lowest days and how many days in a row you stayed under an hour.

Most people are surprised by the first week. That surprise is the point. You cannot cut down something you cannot see.

COMPETE WITH YOUR FRIENDS

Add your friends by name and see who has the lowest daily average. You can hide your number from them at any time.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No account, no sign up, no advertising. Your statistics live on your phone and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud storage so they survive a reinstall. Scrollbreak uses analytics to see how the app is used, with no advertising identifier. The friends leaderboard is optional: if you join it, your name, your figures and your picture are shared with the friends you add.

Scrollbreak uses Apple's Screen Time features to pause the apps you choose. Apple hands the app anonymous tokens, so it never learns which apps you picked and can never see anything inside them.

WHAT IT IS NOT

It is not a blocker you have to fight. A break is only 5 minutes, and you can change your app list in Settings at any moment. With Pro you can also pause the blockers for up to 15 minutes a day for something important, or use a joker to skip a break.

FREE AND PRO

Scrollbreak is free with one blocked app and today's figures. Pro adds every app, your full history, a choice of 1, 3, 5, 10 or 20 minutes between breaks, 15 minutes of pause a day and a daily joker.

Pro is a subscription with a 3-day free trial. Monthly or yearly, cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.

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