Touch.Grass vs Gloam

At 4 hours a day, your phone will quietly cost you 8.3 years over the next 50. TouchGrass is here to help you keep some of them. Meet Sproutly, your green plant buddy whose mood is tied directly to your daily phone usage. Stay under your goal and Sproutly blooms. Blow past it and the garden wilts. No shame, no streaks held over your head. Just an honest cause and effect loop you can feel. WHY TOUCHGRASS IS DIFFERENT Most screen time apps show you a number. "5h 23m." That number is meaningless. You can't feel it. TouchGrass turns your screen time into something you actually care about: a tiny plant that lights up on a good day and droops on a bad one. WHAT YOU GET • A live read of your daily screen time, powered by Apple's Screen Time framework. • A health score that reacts to time lost on social, games, and entertainment, while productive use stays neutral. • A Reality Check that turns today's pace into the lifetime cost: years of your life on the phone. • A 3x3 garden you tend each day. Water, plant, and harvest seeds, unlocking rare species over time. • Three Protect tiers (Lite, Standard, Lockdown) that let you choose which apps Sproutly guards and shield them when you cross your daily limit. • Six themes: Forest Dark, Morning Meadow, Golden Dunes, Deep Tide, Twilight Garden, Sakura. • A Focus mode for deep work. Set a timer, watch Sproutly meditate, finish stronger. PRIVACY YOU CAN ACTUALLY VERIFY TouchGrass has no server, no analytics, and no account. Every number lives on your device. Your Screen Time data never leaves your iPhone. Delete the app and it's gone. There's no copy in the cloud, because the cloud isn't part of the design. REQUIREMENTS • Requires iOS 16 or later. iPhone only. • Uses Apple's Family Controls and Screen Time framework. You'll grant Screen Time access during setup. The app still works without it in calibration mode, but the garden's main loop assumes it's on. NOT FOR PARENTAL CONTROL TouchGrass is built for adults managing their own screen time. It is not a parental control product, doesn't use Family Sharing, and exposes your data to no one but you. Stop scrolling. Watch your garden grow.

Gloam is the screen-time app that's actually fun. Most screen-time tools nag, shame, or bore you into deleting them. Gloam does the opposite. It turns cutting back into a game you actually want to play, with a currency to manage, a creature to keep happy, and friends to beat. HOW IT WORKS Every day you get Elixir, your right to screen time. The apps you are trying to avoid cost Elixir to open. The apps that are good for you cost nothing, and can even earn a little back. Watch the balance and you finally see what mindless scrolling really costs, in a way that feels tangible instead of preachy. Sort your apps into three tiers. Green apps are free. Amber apps cost a little. Red apps, the endless-scroll ones, cost more the longer you stay. Run out of Elixir and those apps rest until tomorrow. It is a gentle nudge, never a hard lockout. MEET YOUR CREATURE At the heart of Gloam is a companion that thrives when you do. Bank your leftover Elixir and it grows, glows, and evolves. Blow your budget and it droops, but it never dies and it never shames you. Give it a name, feed it in the Den, and watch it react to your day. EARN YOUR TIME BACK Go for a walk, finish a workout, solve a quick puzzle, or take a mindful minute. Gloam turns your steps and activity into Elixir, so time off your phone quietly buys you a little more when you want it. BEAT YOUR FRIENDS Add friends and climb a fair leaderboard that compares how well each of you sticks to your own goals, not raw hours. Go head to head in matchups, chase group goals together, and send a friend some Elixir when they are running low. TRACK, DON'T ENFORCE Gloam is built on one idea. Make the cost of scrolling visible and a little bit fun, and you spend less without feeling deprived. It cheers you on. It never locks you out of your life. Your solo world works fully offline. Add friends when you want the social side. MEMBERSHIP Gloam is an auto-renewing subscription. Try it free for 7 days, then continue with the plan you choose. Elixir is never sold for money. It is only earned, topped up daily, or gifted between friends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://api.gloam.works/terms Privacy Policy: https://api.gloam.works/privacy