Phoneless Garden vs DebtScroll

Twenty minutes in, you find out it has been twenty minutes. Phoneless Garden does not block anything. It comes back when your time is up, with the day's total and one question. Close the app, or keep going. Both are real answers. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps you want to be more mindful with. Social, video, news, whatever pulls at you. • Every time you open one, the pause comes first. It shows your time on these apps today, and asks nothing else. Close, or continue. • Continue and you choose how long. When that time is up, the pause comes back, and this time it asks what you want from the next few minutes. WHY NO BLOCKING Blockers punish you, and punishment is easy to switch off. Phoneless Garden takes the opposite approach. It puts one moment of noticing between the reach and the scroll, and leaves the decision with you. Nothing to unlock, no passes to spend, no lockout to wait out. Not all screen time is wasted time. A long call with a friend is not the same as twenty minutes you cannot account for. This app does not pretend to know the difference. It just makes sure you are the one deciding. WHAT YOU GET • A pause with one question, every time you open the apps you choose • Your own words on the pause: write what you would rather do, and the pause shows it every other time • Gentler questions on days you log your mood as Low or Hard • A pause length you can set for each app, from five to ninety seconds (Premium) • A daily screen time goal that flexes. The app asks what kind of day it is, so work days and weekends can differ • A plant that reflects your day. Under your goal it grows, over your goal it rests. It never wilts • Mood check-ins, so you can see how screen time and mood move together • A few seconds of journaling when you want it • Insights into how often you open these apps, when your pauses happen and the timers you pick • Your month as a garden (Premium) • Dark mode PRIVACY Your pauses, moods and notes stay on your phone. No accounts, no email, no tracking. Purchases go through Apple and RevenueCat. Terms of Use: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/privacy

Your screen time problem isn't a willpower problem. It's an accountability problem. DebtScroll turns your social circle into your strongest habit enforcer. Set limits on the apps that steal your time. The moment you try to sneak past them, your friends find out — and the debt starts ticking. Here's how it works: Set a daily time limit on any app: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever your poison is. When you hit your limit and try to keep going, two things happen simultaneously: your accountability partners get an instant notification, and a debt entry lands in your shared tab. At the end of the month, you settle up. In real life. With people who were watching. For the apps you truly can't be trusted with? There's the Vault. The Vault is a 24/7 hard block — no time budget, no grace period, no sneaking through. Vaulted apps stay locked until you either pay a penalty or get a one-time unlock code from your accountability partner. They generate it. They decide if you've earned it. You don't get to unlock your own cage. Why this works when everything else hasn't: Screen time apps fail because breaking them costs nothing. There's no embarrassment, no consequences, no one watching. DebtScroll changes the equation. Now every slip has a price — social and financial — and the people in your life are witnesses. You don't need a therapist or a detox retreat. You need to know your best friend will see exactly how many times you opened Instagram after midnight. Features: — Set custom daily time limits per app — Vault: permanent 24/7 hard blocks on your worst offenders — Warden unlock codes — only your accountability partner can open the Vault — Instant notifications to your accountability partners when limits are broken — Automatic debt tracking per breach, per partner — Monthly settlement view — see exactly what you owe and to whom — Invite friends as free accountability partners (they never pay) — Clean, simple dashboard showing your streak, your debt, your discipline Most habit apps are a private conversation between you and your phone. DebtScroll makes it public — or at least, visible to the people whose opinions actually matter to you. That's what makes the difference. The debt isn't legally binding. The shame is. Who it's for: — Anyone who's downloaded a screen time app and ignored it within a week — People who want external accountability, not just internal motivation — Friend groups or couples who want to hold each other to better habits together — Anyone tired of handing hours of their life to apps designed to be addictive Download DebtScroll. Your friends are already waiting.