Original Summary

I moved to a new country last year and noticed that i started wasting a concerning amount of time on my phone...6 hours, 8 hours, sometimes 10 hours... So I decided to do something about it: i installed a screen time app that was blocking time-sucking apps: - no instagram - no tiktok So did my screen time go down? NO! Because I found myself: - watching Youtube Shorts - checking Reddit daily - checking Instagram from my browser... I shouldn't block the browser, right? RIGHT? That's when I realized that the only thing for this to stop is to have a Phone budget, not just Screen budget. So after a few weeks I built PhoneStop - a Screen time budget app that: - SETS me daily budget for all phone usage - ROASTS me every 10 minutes or whenever - STOPS me when I reached the budget https://reddit.com/link/1wg0tvg/video/c3xhomk50hph1/player Three things happen as it drains: - It warns you while you're still scrolling inside other apps (an hour left, then 30 min, then 10). - At zero, a full-screen "time's up" slides over whatever app you're in (that's the GIF). - It's a soft stop. The Home button always gets you out. But it's the one nudge that actually makes me put the phone down. Free, no account, and your screen time never leaves your phone. There's an optional mode where the notifications roast you, if that's what it takes. Android only right now, iPhone is next. Built it for myself and I've been using it for a few months. Links below. Android , iOS (waitlist, app coming soon) One thing I'd genuinely like to know: does budgeting the whole phone instead of blocking single apps match how you actually lose the hours, or am I wrong about that?   submitted by   /u/ruslanshchuchkin [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/14 19:30:59