LoopCut: Screen Time & Focus

Modern apps are designed to make opening easy and stopping hard.

LoopCut adds smart friction against addictive app design — so you can pause before distracting apps turn into doomscrolling.

It is not a harsh app blocker. It helps you use your phone with intention.

It works to counter the modern Addictive App Design:
🧠 To easy to open an app → Pause first
Before TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Chrome, Reddit, or other distracting apps open, LoopCut gives you a short pause to decide: do I really need this right now?

🎯 No reason to open an app→ Open with intention
Choose why you are opening the app before you enter. This turns autopilot into a conscious decision.

⏳ Infinite scroll → Set a timebox
Set an intention timer before entering. LoopCut reminds you before “just two minutes” quietly becomes much longer.

🔁 Can not stop → Checkpoints → Stronger break
If you keep drifting, LoopCut can add checkpoints and stronger breaks to help you cut the loop.

⚡ Need quick check or answer → Quick Task, possible without friction
Need to reply, check a link, scan a QR code, or do something important? Quick Task lets you go straight in for a short, limited session — without turning it into another scroll.

🌙 Scroll until midnight → Sleep Guard
Block distracting apps during your bedtime window, while keeping essential apps available.

🔒 Privacy-first
LoopCut uses Android Accessibility permission only to detect selected app openings and show the right pause, timer, Quick Task, or Sleep Guard screen.
It does not read your messages, typed text, browsing history, or personal content.

⚗️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 is for screen time control, focus, digital wellbeing, and intentional phone use — without quitting your phone and no hard blocker.

🌍 Available in English, German, and Chinese.

🎉Premium features are currently free for limited time,
Compare: Basic version is only free to use with one app.