Air | Reduce Screen Time vs HourLimit

We live in a world designed to compete for our attention. Apps, feeds and notifications can turn a small impulse into long sessions of mindless scrolling. Air turns those mechanics around. Air stands for Awareness Instead of Reactivity. It creates a deliberate pause between impulse and action, so you decide how to use your phone instead of reacting to it. A breath before you scroll When you try to open an app you've chosen to limit, air asks you to take a breath first. A short guided pause gives you space to notice the impulse. Then the choice is yours: keep the app blocked, or unlock it knowing it will cost air some energy. A companion that grows when you don't scroll Air is also your companion, a character that reflects the choices you make with your attention. Keep your rules and build mindful streaks, and Air gains energy and evolves through 14 unique stages. Take a break or turn a rule off, and Air loses energy. It's a simple, visible reflection of your choices, not a judgment. Most digital products use streaks, progression and rewards to make you come back. Air uses them to help you stay away. Your progress reflects the time and attention you protect outside distracting apps. The goal is not to make you use Air more. The goal is to help you need it less. Rules you set yourself Create personal rules for the apps that distract you most. Every rule you keep helps air grow. - Schedule: block apps during specific hours and days - Time limit: set a daily budget or a limit within a specific time window - Open limit: choose how many times an app can be opened and how long each session can last You stay in control. Rules can always be paused or removed, but doing so requires opening air and making a conscious choice. Your usage information stays on your iPhone. Air is not about quitting technology. It's about creating enough space between impulse and action to decide how you want to use it. Take air, don't dumbscroll. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Daily screen time limits are easy to break. You burn the whole allowance before lunch, and the rest of the day has no guardrails at all. HourLimit works in hours instead. Give an app 15 minutes per hour, and when those 15 minutes are gone the app is blocked — until the top of the next hour, when the limit resets and you get a clean slate. Every hour, all day. It turns "I've blown it for today" into "I'll get another shot in 20 minutes." HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps that pull you in • Give each one a limit between 1 and 60 minutes per hour • HourLimit blocks the app the moment its limit is spent • At the top of the hour, every limit resets automatically WHAT YOU GET • Hourly limits, not daily ones — a fresh start every 60 minutes • Real blocking through Apple's Screen Time, so it works even when HourLimit is closed • A calm dashboard showing what's left this hour for each app • A heads-up notification when a limit is reached • An optional reminder at the start of each new hour • Quiet hours, so nothing buzzes while you sleep • Adjust or remove any limit at any time — changes apply immediately BUILT TO BE CALM No streaks, no scores, no shaming graphs. HourLimit blocks an app and tells you when it's coming back. That's the whole product. PRIVACY Your limits and Screen Time usage stay on your iPhone. There is no account and no analytics. HourLimit uses Apple's Screen Time framework, which never reveals which apps you limit or how you use them. Purchases are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat. FREE AND PRO Free covers up to 3 apps. Pro removes the cap so you can limit as many apps as you like, as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. REQUIREMENTS HourLimit needs Screen Time (Family Controls) permission to block apps. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/