Screen time, without the willpower
Put a breath between you and the scroll.
ScreenNudge guards the apps that distract you, then gives you one calm moment to choose again — backed by a circle of friends who make it stick.
Unlock Instagram?
Breathe with the circle. Let the urge settle.
I'll stay off
The three-second reach
You just wanted to check one thing.
Then twenty minutes were gone. These apps are engineered to keep you scrolling, so willpower alone was never a fair fight. ScreenNudge changes the moment you reach — not just the number at the end of the day.
How it works
Four steps, one calmer habit.
Guard the apps
Pick the apps that distract you. ScreenNudge protects them with Apple Screen Time — nothing ever leaves your device.
Hit the pause
Reach for a guarded app and ScreenNudge steps in first: breathe, take a few steps, wait it out, or answer a quick prompt.
Choose again
Still want it? Open anyway. Changed your mind? Stay off and bank the win. Either way it was your call — not a reflex.
Earn your place
Every resist and every focused minute earns points in your circle's weekly race. Progress you can actually feel.
What you get
One calm system for the apps that never let go.
The pause
Breathe, step, wait, or solve a quick challenge before a guarded app opens. Gentle, balanced, or strong — you set the resistance.
Wind-Down
Guarded apps block themselves at bedtime, so the night doesn't vanish into a feed. Set it once.
The circle
A small, private group of friends. Resist urges and stack focus minutes to climb a friendly weekly leaderboard.
Focus room
Start a timer and your guarded apps lock for the session. See who else in your circle is heads-down right now.
Attention insights
Your resist rate, your peak-pressure hours, and the real time you've won back — week over week.
Pacers
Flying solo? Friendly pacer profiles keep the leaderboard and focus room alive until your friends arrive.
Better together
Willpower is easier as a team sport.
Alone, it's you against an infinite feed. With a circle, every resisted urge and focused minute becomes points on a leaderboard your friends can see. A little friendly pressure goes a long way — and no one ever sees which apps you guard.
The race this week.
See the pattern
Know what your attention is doing.
ScreenNudge turns each pause into a quiet data point: how often you reached, how often you came back, when the pressure peaks, and the hours you reclaimed. Clarity, not guilt.
What your attention shows.
Yours, and only yours
Private by design.
App protection runs on-device through Apple Screen Time. ScreenNudge never sees your messages, your browsing, or the content inside your apps.
We don't sell or rent your data. Ever.
Your circle sees your points and live focus status — never which apps you guard or what you do in them.
Why we built ScreenNudge
We wanted our evenings back.
ScreenNudge began as a personal fix for a familiar problem: reaching for the phone on reflex and losing hours we meant to spend elsewhere. Hard blockers felt like punishment; doing nothing felt like giving up. So we built the gentle in-between — one honest pause, plus the friends who want you to win.
Come back before the scroll takes over.
ScreenNudge is built for iPhone, and free to start.
Coming soon to the App Store.