# PhoneAware - Screen Time

> PhoneAware - Screen Time (iPhone/iPad app by Venkat Sharma Aluru Gopalakrishna.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phoneaware-screen-time/id6807178905 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Venkat Sharma Aluru Gopalakrishna](https://appshunter.io/developer/1888511104)
- Category: Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.4 · 8 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Released: 2026-10-02
- Data updated: 2026-10-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phoneaware-screen-time/id6807178905/reviews.md

## What is PhoneAware?

PhoneAware helps you notice how often you reach for your phone, understand where your time goes, and create space to choose what happens next.

It’s easy to lose track of how often a quick check turns into another scroll. PhoneAware makes those patterns visible without turning your phone into another source of guilt.

See your daily phone checks, phone time, most-used apps, first pickup, and how your habits change over time. Look back across recorded days and explore 7, 30, and 90-day trends to understand where your attention tends to go.

When awareness isn’t enough, you can act on it.

Set daily limits for the apps that pull you in. When a limit is reached, PhoneAware blocks the app and gives you a chance to decide: keep the boundary in place, or consciously unblock it until midnight.

NOTICE YOUR PATTERNS

• See how often you check your phone
• Understand your daily phone time
• See the share of your day spent on your phone
• Find your most-used apps
• Explore 7, 30, and 90-day trends
• Look back at previously recorded days
• Keep key numbers visible with widgets
• Use optional Lock Screen and Dynamic Island views
• Share your daily summary

CREATE HEALTHIER BOUNDARIES

Choose up to eight apps and set daily time limits.

When you reach a limit, the app is blocked. Return to PhoneAware to pause, reflect, and decide whether to keep the block or unblock that app until midnight.

The choice stays with you.

PAUSE BEFORE AUTOPILOT

Mindful Pause creates a short moment between opening an app and continuing into it.

You can preview and save a Mindful Pause for free.

PhoneAware Premium lets you schedule Mindful Pauses for multiple chosen apps, select the days and hours they apply, choose a 5, 10, or 15-second pause, and control how soon another pause may appear.

Scheduled Mindful Pauses use a personal Apple Shortcuts automation to bring you into PhoneAware after a selected app opens.

ONE PAYMENT. NO SUBSCRIPTION.

Premium is a one-time lifetime unlock.

No recurring subscription.

BUILT AROUND AWARENESS, NOT SHAME

PhoneAware isn’t about making every minute on your phone feel bad.

Sometimes you want to scroll. Sometimes you want to stay connected. Sometimes you simply didn’t realise how often you were reaching for your phone.

PhoneAware helps make that behaviour visible and gives you a moment to decide what you want to do next.

Screen Time access is required for usage insights and daily app limits. Available readings and historical data depend on information provided by iOS.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-02

No release notes.

## More apps by Venkat Sharma Aluru Gopalakrishna

- [Beeper: Repeat Reminders](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beeper-repeat-reminders/id6761266648)

All apps by Venkat Sharma Aluru Gopalakrishna: https://appshunter.io/developer/1888511104

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