Precursor vs LoopPDF

Most screen time solutions give you one daily limit. Often we spend the whole limit by late morning, leaving us locked out of our apps for the rest of the day and feeling stranded; all it takes is one vulnerable moment and we hit that tempting "Ignore Limit For Today" button. That one impulsive moment costs you not only your time, but also the motivation to keep working on whatever it is you meant to do. PRECURSOR BREAKS THE CYCLE With Precursor you can finally set an hourly app limit. For example, you allot yourself five minutes of social media scrolling per hour, and you can trust that Precursor will reset that limit at the top of the next hour. Every hour, all day, automatically. You get the brainrot break you needed, but the scroll ends right before it turns into a mindless habit. Your brain doesn't panic because you know you'll get more time to scroll in just a short hour. So you never have to feel guilty for ignoring a limit ever again. No streaks. No guilt. No shame. Just a sustainable screen time solution your day can lean on. HOW IT WORKS - Pick the apps (or group of apps) that you'd like to limit and give them an hourly allowance: 5, 10, or 15 minutes (Precursor+ extends limits up to 30). - Pick the specific days you want your limits to run (for example, on weekdays you can set stricter limits and on weekends you can set more lenient limits). - When the allowance is spent, those apps get blocked. - At the top of the next hour, your limit resets. - You set your limits once and that screen time rhythm repeats every hour, all day, automatically; so you never have to think about them again. - Precursor also allows you to stop your limits, for whatever reason, but we add some friction to help you in those impulsive moments: 1) Before stopping your limits Precursor will prompt you to write a short reflection on why you need to in this moment. 2) You can add a passcode to lock in your limit (consider allowing a trusted person in your life to set it for you if you know you'll likely bypass it). 3) Unlike other screen time solutions that give you an "ignore limit" prompt right there in the blocked app screen, Precursor requires that you intentionally open the Precursor app to stop your limits. Restrictions and punishments don't work. They never have. Precursor is built on one principle: Real change comes from one's own ability to be honest and accountable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Precursor is built on Apple's Screen Time technology. Your app choices are opaque tokens: we never see which apps you pick, and neither can anyone else. Your usage history stays on your phone, and Insights are computed on-device. There are no accounts and no ads. Optional, anonymous usage analytics are off unless you turn them on, and they still never include which apps you choose. HONEST BY DEFAULT Precursor is free to use, with an optional Precursor+ upgrade for more groups, other reset windows, longer limits, scheduled active hours, and Deep Focus sessions. Available as a one-time Lifetime purchase if you prefer to own your productivity tools rather than subscribe. Monthly and Yearly both start with one month free. No subscription is required to keep the core, and the terms are spelled out plainly before anything renews. Please note: Deleting Precursor removes every limit. Precursor is an independently developed app by a one-person studio, Precursor Labs. Precursor+ Monthly and Yearly are auto-renewable subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://precursorlabs.studio/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Apple's Terms and Policies: http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services

Turn paper into clean PDFs and copy text with OCR using LoopPDF, the free document scanner for iPhone, iPad and Mac. POINT, SCAN, SAVE Open the camera and bring all four corners into view. LoopPDF detects the page, counts down and captures it automatically. Tap the scan button whenever you want to capture immediately. Perspective correction straightens pages photographed at an angle. COPY TEXT WITH OCR Recognise text in new scans and saved PDFs with Apple Vision. Select and copy text from one page or copy all pages in order. Recognition runs on your device whenever you open Text, so your saved scans can benefit from improvements to Apple's text recognition. MULTIPLE PAGES, ONE PDF Scan another page, review the result and drag the thumbnails into the right order. Crop, rotate and adjust the colour treatment before saving. Add more pages to an existing PDF whenever you need to. YOUR FILES, ORGANISED Name your PDF and choose a folder inside LoopPDF. Browse subfolders, search by filename and open scans in the built-in PDF viewer. See page counts, file sizes, dates and sync status at a glance. READY ON YOUR OTHER DEVICES Save PDFs to your LoopPDF folder in iCloud Drive and continue on your iPhone, iPad or Mac using the same Apple Account. If iCloud is unavailable, your scans stay on the device and move to iCloud when it becomes available. PRESERVE THE DETAILS Save scans at their original resolution without additional lossy image compression. Keep small details in your documents, with larger files that use more storage. SAVE AND SHARE Send a PDF through Mail, AirDrop or the system share sheet directly after scanning or from the PDF viewer. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Document detection, image processing and OCR happen on your device. We do not receive your scans or add watermarks, logos or other branding. No ads, no subscription, no tracking and no separate LoopPDF account. MAKE IT YOURS Choose an automatic capture delay from 0.5 to 4 seconds. On Mac, use the built-in camera, an external webcam or an available Continuity Camera. Camera access is required for scanning. Syncing requires iCloud Drive and the same Apple Account on your devices. Apple's iCloud storage limits apply. Support: https://murani.nl/apps/looppdf/#support Privacy: https://murani.nl/apps/looppdf/#privacy