# Ubrutt: Screen Time & Focus — Put the phone down on purpose > Put the phone down on purpose (iPhone/iPad app by Kjetil Dyrland.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ubrutt-screen-time-and-focus/id6797823020 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kjetil Dyrland](https://appshunter.io/developer/1811346692) - Category: Health & Fitness, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 4 MB - Languages: American English, Norwegian Bokmål - Released: 2026-08-10 - Data updated: 2026-08-21 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ubrutt-screen-time-and-focus/id6797823020/reviews.md ## What is Ubrutt? You opened Instagram fourteen times before lunch. Ubrutt knows, because you asked it to count. Ubrutt does not lock your phone. It puts a deliberate pause in front of the apps you chose, counts what actually happened, and tells you the truth about it. HOW IT WORKS 1. You pick the apps. Instagram, TikTok, the news — whatever is eating your hours. You write, in your own words, why each one is on the list. 2. The pause arrives when you open them. One breath. Your own words. Today's number: "You have opened TikTok 7 times. You turned back 4." Then two buttons: Put it down, or Open anyway. Ubrutt never blocks — you decide, every single time. But you decide with your eyes open. 3. The ledger remembers. How many times you opened it. How long you stayed. How many times you turned back. Real numbers from your own phone, not invented "hours saved". No points, no flames, no tree that dies when you slip. SESSIONS YOU CAN SEE Start an unbroken session from Control Centre, the Lock Screen, the Action Button or Siri. The countdown sits in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen for as long as it runs. Visible to you — and to the people sitting with you. WORK AND LIFE, KEPT APART Your rules follow the clock and the weekday. Slack and Teams without friction from eight to five, with friction after. Instagram gets fifteen minutes at lunch. Because your job lives in the same apps as your distraction. THE LADDER You get three unlocks a day, and each one you spend makes the next breath longer — five extra seconds, then thirty, then two minutes. The budget is visible, it resets at midnight and not because you ask, and the ledger records what you spent it on. THE SUNDAY LETTER One letter, Sunday evening. How many unbroken hours you held, which app pulled hardest, how often you turned back — and one concrete suggestion. Not ten. One. A PARTNER Share your week with one person you trust. They see that you held the evening. They never see which apps you opened or what you wrote. A witness, not surveillance. THE SEAL For when you mean it: a guided walkthrough where someone you trust sets the Screen Time passcode — iOS's own locks, step by step, pitfalls called out. Ubrutt cannot verify any of it happened, and does not pretend to. But the ledger remembers the day you did it. HONEST ABOUT MONEY Ubrutt Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Two plans: NOK 399 per year, with a seven-day free trial first, or NOK 79 per month with no trial. Norwegian prices include VAT. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and cancelling is one tap away inside the app. We remind you 48 hours before the trial converts. No weekly price, ever. HONEST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE The pause is built on a Shortcuts automation you set up yourself. We walk you through every step and test that it works before you pay anything. It is dependable when you open an app from the Home Screen, and less dependable from the App Switcher and from Spotlight. That is written inside the app too, not only here. PRIVACY No account to get started. No analytics. No third parties. Everything you do in Ubrutt stays on your phone — the only thing that ever leaves it is what Makker needs, and only if you use Makker. You can export everything whenever you want. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Supplementary terms for Ubrutt: https://ubrutt.app/vilkar Privacy policy: https://ubrutt.app/personvern Made in Norway. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Ubrutt Pro – monthly | $5.99 | per month | | Ubrutt Pro – yearly | $29.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-10 Fixes from the first days out: • «Test the automation» never turned green if the App field in the Shortcuts action was empty. The pause now runs either way, and the app names the field that is missing. • The setup guide matches Shortcuts as it looks today, and answers whether «Open When Run» should be on. It should not. • If you subscribe, a cold start now brings you the pause — not the payment screen. • The ledger stops guessing: a pause you walked away from is no longer recorded as «no rule applied», and Ubrutt pulling itself to the front no longer counts as time spent in the app. • A running session is no longer ended silently by a widget tap or a Siri command. • Quiet hours set to the same time no longer disarm every rule, and a rule no longer loses its window when the last weekday is unticked. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-09 No release notes. ## More apps by Kjetil Dyrland - [Glimt - Disposable Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/glimt-disposable-camera/id6790474917) - [Hyttefred](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hyttefred/id6792740405) - [ZEBRA - Social Deduction](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zebra-social-deduction/id6794045328) - [Clearhour: ADHD Work Day](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clearhour-adhd-work-day/id6794854016) - [Taleark: Befaringsrapport](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/taleark-befaringsrapport/id6794867329) All apps by Kjetil Dyrland: https://appshunter.io/developer/1811346692 --- *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 2026-08-21.*