# Normal: Screen Time Control — user reviews > 8 indexed App Store user reviews of Normal by Normal Engineering Inc., rated 4.90/5 from 24 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/normal-screen-time-control/id6768861415/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/normal-screen-time-control/id6768861415.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 22 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Most critical reviews (8 lowest-rated) ### 5/5 — it’s good! *2026-07-07* simple and easy to set up. i use my library card barcode as my key and it works very well. i like that i can choose how long to unlock the apps. genuinely helps me stay off unnecessary websites and mindless scrolling. so far no pieces of feedback. thanks for making an easy and free to use app! **Developer response:** Yeah timing unblock was the main reason I made this, glad it's working so well for you! Feel free to reach out if any more feedback, info@normalengineering.org ### 5/5 — Free, Open Source, Works! *2026-06-23* A fantastic tool, highly customizable, completely free to set up and use. Way better than paying a subscription and buying locked down hardware for other screen time apps. **Developer response:** Thank you! If you have any questions or feedback feel free to reach out! info@normalengineering.org ### 5/5 — A perfect utility app *2026-05-31* Seriously, this is the best and most intuitively/simple apps that just works without fuss or tinkering. Anything you’d want to do works with absolute ease and it makes this a “set it and forget” thing, where you can block things and never have to worry about the app or glitches or anything, unlike other apps. If I had to give any feedback, although it is a really small quality-of-life feature, I would really like a widget and/or shortcut that allows for quick and easy enabling of the scanner so we can just click it and quickly block and unblock without having to manually go in the app and do so. Other than that, absolute delight to use ^^ ! **Developer response:** I’ve just added widgets in the new update, thanks for your suggestion! Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions or feedback info@normalengineering.org ### 5/5 — Best app *2026-05-25* Best screen time control app. Has no stupid paywalls. **Developer response:** Thank you! ### 5/5 — An amazing app *2026-05-24* This app is so good it works perfectly it doesn’t collect data and is free and open source. Try this before buying a new dumbphone. I have one suggestion for the creator, if you can please make it work also for macos. That would be great! **Developer response:** MacOS is actually my next step! Getting user feedback and making the iOS version perfect then MacOS If you have any feedback please don’t hesitate to reach out, info@normalengineering.org ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-23* This app is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for all your hard work. It has been great for limiting my kids screen time. **Developer response:** Thank you so much, great to hear! I was wondering if people would use this to manage their kids screentimes, it makes a lot of sense since you can manage NFC/QRs easily and there’s the physical aspect of that. Really happy it’s working great for you. One thing to note is kids may be able to access ‘Emergency Unblock’. While they only get 3 of these, just wanted to bring it up. The new update next week will have the Emergency Unblock sync up with iCloud so it’s a bit stricter. I was thinking of adding a PIN for emergency unblock for parents/kid use. But not sure if I should anymore. Feel free to reach out if you have any more feedback, concerns or suggestions for your use case, info@normalengineering.org. ### 5/5 — App does what it says it can do *2026-05-21* I was searching for ways to make my smartphone more dumb and this app was able to do that for me! It works by using the “Screen Time Limit” function Apple Products have and removing the option to extend the time limit right in the limited app. There are other advanced options you can use as well. I appreciate this developer’s honesty towards creating a product that is useful and deciding not to profit off of it. They’re doing it purely to help us and nothing more. Thank you!!! **Developer response:** Thank you so much! Feel free to reach out if you have any more feedback or requests info@normalengineering.org ### 5/5 — Works great *2026-05-19* Very good app and it’s free **Developer response:** Thank you! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*