Screen Grove vs Ransom

Screen Grove turns your daily screen-time budget into a single tree. Choose the apps, categories and websites that take up too much of your day, and give yourself a budget. As your time adds up, your tree takes chops and starts to tip over. Go over and it's cut down for the day. Every morning a new tree grows. Yesterday's tree joins the grove behind it, standing if you stayed under budget, or a stump if you didn't. Tap any day in your grove to see how it went. Plant real trees with Grove+. Every good day (a day your tree is still standing at midnight) counts toward a real tree, planted by our partner Veritree as mangroves in Kenya and Brazil, with every planting recorded with GPS and photos. Planter plants a real tree every 5 good days, Grower every 2, and Guardian every single good day. • One screen, one tree. No feeds, no streak pressure, no ads. • Exact numbers from Apple's Screen Time, shown only on your iPhone. • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. • A notification when your budget is reached. • Budget and app changes start the next day, so today's tree can't be rescued by moving the goalposts. Private by design: no accounts, and your Screen Time data never leaves your phone. With Grove+, only your subscription's transaction ID and the dates of your good days go to our server, to count your trees. Grove+ is a monthly auto-renewing subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Get your evenings back. Keep your apps. Ransom locks Instagram, TikTok and whatever else eats your day, and asks for push-ups, squats or steps before it opens them. Most of the time you'll decide it isn't worth ten push-ups. That is the whole trick. WHAT CHANGES You stop opening apps by reflex. A set standing between you and the feed makes you notice your hand reaching for the phone, and noticing is most of the battle. The hour before bed comes back. Set a wind-down rule and scrolling takes twice the reps right when you'd normally lose the evening to it. You get a bit stronger without meaning to. Ten push-ups a few times a day adds up faster than you'd think. You watch the number drop. The Progress tab shows today against this time yesterday, and your whole week. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that eat your day. 2. Rex, a buff T-rex with tiny arms, locks them. 3. Do a set. The front camera counts push-ups and squats. The pedometer counts steps. 4. A set earns coins, and coins are minutes, one for one. 15 coins opens your apps for 15 minutes. Spend them on whatever you like. When they run out, your apps lock again until your next set. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up. Your screen time never leaves your phone. The camera looks at your form on the device and never records, saves or uploads a frame. Your screen time is your business. EVERY DAY IS A FRESH START Coins clear at midnight, so unspent minutes never pile up. Had a bad day and scrolled through all of it? Tomorrow starts at zero, and Rex is not going to bring it up. REX COUNTS PROPERLY Half a push-up is not a push-up. The camera looks for real depth, so a bounce doesn't earn a minute. It also means the minutes you do earn actually feel earned. RULES FOR THE HOURS THAT MATTER Name an hour. Dinner, gym time, wind down. During it, opening your apps takes twice the reps. You still can, it just takes more work. PICK YOUR LEVEL Chill, Standard or Beast. Start easy. Move up when ten push-ups stops being a reason to put the phone down. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO It doesn't delete your apps. It doesn't shame you. It doesn't nag. Full access is a subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms: https://lucascoles.github.io/ransom/terms/ Privacy: https://lucascoles.github.io/ransom/privacy/