Scrollbreak: reclaim your time

You never planned to scroll for an hour. You opened the app for five minutes. After that the feed decided how long you stayed, and it is very good at its job. That is the part nobody chooses, and the part nobody sees. Scrollbreak gives you the choice back, and gives you the number. HOW IT WORKS Pick the apps that eat your time. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whichever ones they are. From then on, those apps open to a calm breathing break instead of the feed. Thirty seconds of breathing unlocks them for five minutes. After five minutes of real use, the break comes back. That is the whole loop, and it repeats for as long as you keep scrolling. No willpower required. The pause does the work. THE BREATHING BREAK Thirty seconds, in silence. A single line draws itself across the screen, swelling as you breathe in and narrowing as you breathe out. When it reaches the end you are done and your apps open automatically. There is nothing to tap and nothing to read. SEE THE REAL NUMBER Every break is counted. The app shows you your breaks and your scrolling time for today, yesterday, the last 7 days and the last 30 days, plus a calendar of the days you took breaks and your current streak. Most people are surprised by the first week. That surprise is the point. You cannot cut down something you cannot see. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scrollbreak collects nothing. No account, no sign up, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind. Your statistics live on your phone and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud storage so they survive a reinstall. Nothing is ever sent to us, because there is no server to send it to. Scrollbreak uses Apple's Screen Time features to pause the apps you choose. Apple hands the app anonymous tokens, so it never learns which apps you picked and can never see anything inside them. WHAT IT IS NOT It is not a blocker you have to fight. You are never locked out. You can pause the breaks, change your app list, or turn everything off in Settings at any moment. MEMBERSHIP Scrollbreak is a subscription with a 3-day free trial. Monthly or yearly, cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m3pNkzuTJvux58niLyjFyDnQy-ZSG-2QLdzauv0vnCc/edit?usp=sharing Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15AjE4erMn0KD8A6LDwqD_Bx3QzU1g4S9inoOXYwlj28/edit?usp=sharing