Dopamine Guard vs Earned Time

**Dopamine Guard is a focus-protection app built around the intent you want to protect.** Most screen-time tools start with what to block. Dopamine Guard starts with what you're protecting — launching your app, learning a language, sleeping better — and builds your protection around it. **Protected Intent** — A short quiz captures what you're trying to protect, what steals your best hours, and when you lose control most often. **Your Personal Guard Plan** — Get a plan matched to your risk window and triggers: a recommended guard mode, focus block size, and the companion that fits your style. **Protected Focus** — Run calm, distraction-aware focus sessions with a drift-proof timer, pauses that don't cheat you, and honest completion summaries. Ending early still counts what you protected — no shame mechanics, ever. **Guard Companions** — Kiro, Nara, and Miko grow with your focus energy. Bond levels, habitats, and achievements reward protection, never punish slips. **Reports** — See your protected minutes, strongest days, and weakest windows from your real local data. **Private by design** — Dopamine Guard is local-first. Everything works without an account. If you sign in, only safe data syncs (your plan, focus history summaries, companion progress). Which apps you select for protection stays on your device — always. Dopamine Guard Pro unlocks unlimited guard modes, strict protection modes, longer focus blocks, and more. Monthly, yearly (7-day free trial), and lifetime options. *Dopamine Guard supports focus habits. It is not a medical product and does not diagnose or treat any condition.* Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Earned Time flips the deal on screen time. Instead of guilt-tripping you with a weekly usage report, it pauses your distracting apps until you've done something that actually matters to you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps you want paused — social, games, whatever pulls you in. 2. Set up goals from the activities you want to do more of: reading, studying, language practice, anything. 3. Pick which apps count as productive for each activity. 4. Time you spend in those apps is tracked automatically and converts into unlock minutes. 5. Spend your earned minutes whenever you want. Your paused apps come back for exactly that long, then lock again on their own. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT No shaming. No arbitrary limits you'll disable in a weak moment. You set the exchange rate between effort and freedom, and the app just holds you to it. FEATURES • Automatic tracking — productive app time becomes unlock minutes with no timers to start and no sessions to remember • Focus sessions for offline work that no app can measure • Roll over unused minutes so a strong day can fund a slow one • See exactly how you earned: which activity, which apps, how many minutes • Anti-bypass controls — confirmation delays, a daily cap on manual unlocks, or hide the escape hatch entirely • Streaks and achievements • Daily or weekly goals PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account, no sign-up, and no server. Earned Time makes no network connections at all. Your Screen Time data and your goals never leave your iPhone.