# Limit Screen Time: Paradox — Stop doomscrolling app blocker

> Stop doomscrolling app blocker (iPhone/iPad app by Paradox App SpA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/limit-screen-time-paradox/id6780225209 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Paradox App SpA](https://appshunter.io/developer/6780225211)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 107 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-03
- Data updated: 2026-11-05

## What is Limit Screen Time?

You meant to read a book tonight. You opened your phone to check one thing. That was ninety minutes ago.

Paradox puts a guardian between you and the apps that take the most, and gives the time you win back to something worth reading.

GUARD THE APPS THAT PULL YOU IN
Pick the apps, whole categories and websites you would rather not open, and the hours they are off limits. The wall goes up and comes down on schedule, even while Paradox is closed. Two rules come ready to use on weekdays, a block from 9 to 5 and a 45-minute daily limit, and both are yours to rewrite.

A PAUSE BEFORE YOU GIVE IN
Open a guarded app and the Paradox shield is there first. If you really do need in, you ask from inside Paradox: your guardian stands in the way, you wait out a short countdown, and you choose 2, 5 or 15 minutes. The pass closes itself when the time is up.

FOCUS SESSIONS
The Focus tab starts a session: an hour of deep work, half an hour, a quick fifteen minutes, or a length of your own. Your guardian rests by a campfire under the night sky, and the apps you chose stay blocked until the session ends, even while it is paused. Follow the clock on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, start a session from the Focus widget on your Home Screen, and look back on your week, month and year in the report.

SOMETHING WORTH YOUR ATTENTION
Grow is a library of short lessons to read or listen to, meant to leave you a little better than they found you. On the pause screen, one tap trades the pass for a read.

YOUR NUMBERS, HONESTLY
Where today, this week and this month actually went, app by app. Put a daily limit on your apps and watch today fill up.

A JOURNEY YOU EARN
Every day you keep a block on earns experience, and so does every focus session. Your guardian travels a map, place by place, and each new place becomes the scene of your block screen. Fill the bar to reach a new level and pick a new guardian or a new attack on the guardian tree. The first time you open Paradox each day, your guardian tells you what you earned.

PARADOX PREMIUM
Blocking, schedules, focus sessions, statistics and the whole library need no subscription, and there are no ads. Paradox Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, that opens the premium guardians and their attacks, the premium backgrounds, and Inferna, a second world with its own road that you reach by ferry. Subscribing needs an account, because the subscription belongs to your account rather than to one phone. Each plan shows its period and how it renews before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings.

YOUR PRIVACY
No ads, and nothing about you is sold to anyone. The per-app times in Stats are drawn by iOS inside a sandboxed extension that cannot hand them to us. We also measure how Paradox itself gets used, and the privacy policy says exactly what that means.

NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
Blocking, focus sessions, statistics, the library, your level and your guardians all work without signing in. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your progress on any phone, or to subscribe.

Paradox needs Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) permission, because it is the only way iOS lets one app hold another back. You grant it on your device, and you can withdraw it in Settings at any time.

Paradox is made by two brothers. Write to us and one of us will answer.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.tryparadox.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://www.tryparadox.app/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paradox Premium Yearly | $63.99 | per year |
| Paradox Premium Monthly | $7.99 | per month |
| Paradox Premium Yearly | $79.99 | per year |
| Paradox Premium Monthly | $9.99 | per month |


## Is Limit Screen Time safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Limit Screen Time.

## Is Limit Screen Time legit?

Limit Screen Time: Paradox has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Limit Screen Time is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.0 — 2026-11-05

- A new world: board the ferry from the Port and cross to Inferna, with its own road (Premium)
- Each world keeps its own progress, and you can always sail back
- A new look for Premium, with what players say about Paradox
- Your map shows where your guardian and the Port are, even off screen
- New landmarks drawn on the map
- Fixes and improvements

### 1.4.2 — 2026-11-02

- Your guardian now lives on the Apps card: see how your day stands at a glance
- A new end to every focus session: see the Focus XP it earned
- When we reply to your message, Profile shows it
- Fixes and improvements

### 1.4.1 — 2026-11-01

- Fixes and improvements

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-28

- The Journey: your XP is a road on a map, and your block screen shows where you are
- Your guardian now ends each day Fresh, Wounded, Broken or Fallen, and the day pays by how it ends
- XP adds up for good: your level comes from everything you have earned
- Invite 2 friends and win a Premium guardian
- Chat with us: send photos, delete a message, and get a notification when we reply
- Fixes and improvements

### 1.3.5 — 2026-10-23

- Send feedback is now a chat in Profile: write to us and read our replies in the same place, with a notification when we answer
- Swipe the fight away to close it
- A cleaner guardian tree and Premium screen
- Fixes and improvements

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