# Whittle: Reduce Screen Time — Digital detox without blocking

> Digital detox without blocking (iPhone/iPad app by MUSTAFA EMIR.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whittle-reduce-screen-time/id6796709153 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [MUSTAFA EMIR](https://appshunter.io/developer/1887126931)
- Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 46 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) and 1 more
- Released: 2026-08-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whittle-reduce-screen-time/id6796709153/reviews.md

## What is Whittle?

Whittle doesn't block anything.

It measures one week of your own screen time, tells you the number, and then lowers it by 8% a week for twelve weeks. That's the whole app.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Pick the apps that take your time.
2. Whittle measures for seven days. It doesn't interrupt and it doesn't judge.
3. On day eight it shows you one number: your daily average.
4. Every week after that, the number goes down 8%.

Eighty-two minutes a day becomes about thirty by week twelve. Not by locking you out — by giving you a slightly smaller target each week, and one honest question on the day you go past it.

WHAT IT WON'T DO

No red. No streaks to lose. No badges, no confetti, no comparison to anyone else. When you pass the day's target, "Open anyway" is the same size and the same colour as "Close". The door isn't locked, and it isn't hidden either.

WHAT YOU GET BACK

Whittle turns minutes into something you can feel: 82 minutes a day is 20 days a year. Twelve weeks later it's about seven.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT

No account. No login. No analytics. Your minutes never leave the phone that measured them, and they go when you delete the app. The subscription is the one thing that talks to the outside, and it never carries a minute with it.

ONE NOTIFICATION A WEEK

Sunday morning, one sentence: this week's number and next week's. No sound, no badge. Nothing else, ever.

FREE AND PRO

Measuring is free: choose your apps, get your number, see today's total and your history. No account, no payment.

Whittle Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. It adds the weekly target that falls 8%, the shield on the day you pass it, and the Sunday summary. Annual or monthly, with one week free. It renews unless cancelled, and you can cancel any time in your App Store settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: http://mustafaemir.com/whittle/privacy.html


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-27

Measuring is now free.

Choose your apps, measure a week, see your number. Today's total and your history stay free too - and there is still no account, ever.

Whittle Pro is the part that lowers the number: a target that falls 8% a week, the shield on the day you pass it, and one summary each Sunday. There is a free trial, and now a monthly plan alongside the annual one.

Also in this version:

- Start today. If you don't want to wait a week, pick a starting limit and begin now.
- A first number after three days, quietly corrected as the week fills in.
- A Home Screen widget: what's left of today, at a glance.
- Hold a week. If the target was too steep, keep the same one for another week. The program stretches, and thinks no less of you.
- Time reclaimed, counted honestly: only the days that were really measured.
- Repairs to the measuring. On some phones the Screen Time data never arrived and the week read zero. Fixed.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-17

Whittle Pro subscriptions are now available, so you can start your twelve weeks.

Fixes and improvements throughout.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-10

No release notes.

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