# Scream Blocker: Screen Time — Face down focus, or it screams

> Face down focus, or it screams (iPhone/iPad app by Ivan de Cabo.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scream-blocker-screen-time/id6809571560 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ivan de Cabo](https://appshunter.io/developer/1819509449)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 49 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-27
- Data updated: 2026-10-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scream-blocker-screen-time/id6809571560/reviews.md

## What is Scream Blocker?

Your phone has one job during a focus session: stay face down. Lift it and it screams.

Scream Blocker is a screen-time blocker with a physical rule instead of a screen you can dismiss. Start a session, put the phone face down on the desk and it goes quiet. Pick it up and it starts screaming, softly at first and louder the further you turn it over, until it is face down again. You don't argue with a button. You smother the phone.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Pick a length on the ruler, from 5 to 120 minutes.
2. Put the phone face down. Nothing screams yet: the session arms once the phone is face down and still.
3. Lift it and the scream ramps with the angle. Face down again means silence.
4. At the end, a gentle chime tells you it's over.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• A scream that grows with tilt, not an on/off alarm. Volume goes to maximum and it plays through the silent switch.
• Two screams free, from comedy to terror, and seven more in the Scream Pack, a one-time in-app purchase: an opera singer who will not stop, a metal growl, an inconsolable baby, a demon, a horror-film scream, a man in full panic and nails on a chalkboard. Tap any of them to hear it before you buy.
• Surface check: the proximity sensor knows whether the phone is actually resting on something, so holding it above your face doesn't count as face down.
• Schedules: pick weekdays and hours when sessions should run, with a reminder at the start.
• History: sessions completed, how many times you lifted the phone and how long it spent in the air.
• Give up, if you must: hold for three seconds while it keeps screaming.

GOOD FOR
Deep work, studying, exam prep, reading, meals without a phone and winding down before sleep. Anyone who has learned that a plain app blocker is one tap away from being ignored.

HONEST ABOUT LIMITS
• The scream needs a running session: the app open, or the screen locked with the session still going.
• Orientation comes from the motion sensors, so it wants a real iPhone lying on a real surface.

PRIVACY
No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your sessions and settings stay on your phone.

Scream Blocker. Put it down. Or else.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scream Pack | $2.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 0.2 — 2026-09-30

New: the Scream Pack. Seven more screams, from an opera singer who will not stop to an inconsolable baby. One purchase, yours for good, and you can hear every one of them first in Settings.

### 0.1 — 2026-09-27

No release notes.

## More apps by Ivan de Cabo

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- [Dinodoku: Sudoku Brain Puzzle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dinodoku-sudoku-brain-puzzle/id6776742315)

All apps by Ivan de Cabo: https://appshunter.io/developer/1819509449

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