You probably spend too much time on your phone. But you don’t need me to tell you that. You need your dog to tell you that. So I built an app that does just that.
In the app you can set rules like: “For every X minutes spent on your distracting app of choice, block it for Y seconds.”
When an app is blocked, it is covered with a customizable “shield” and you can put your dog’s photo and a message on the shield.
The short blocks (plus facing your dog’s comments) make doomscrolling super annoying, but they don’t lock you out completely — if you really need the app, you can wait a few seconds and continue.
It’s called ScrollBump: Screen Time Breaks.
All of the features mentioned above are free, although the app offers some premium features like location-based break rules or locking editing of the break rules with a countdown timer.