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Pailtime

Stop doom scrolling with a daily bucket of scrolltime

An iPhone app that locks the apps you doom-scroll and gives you a daily bucket of scrolltime. Do something good for yourself to earn time back.

Screenshots

  • Pailtime home screen with a scrolltime bucket showing 2h 52m left and Scroll and Recharge buttons
  • Pailtime Half Plan chart stepping daily scrolling down from 3 hours to a 1 hour 30 minute goal
  • Pailtime pledge screen with a signed commitment to scroll with intention
  • Pailtime daily bucket with 1 hour of scrolltime above blocked YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and X, and a Scroll for 20 min button
  • Pailtime brain game screen for earning a few minutes of scrolltime

Sketch to Ship

Your scroll time as a pail that empties.

The shipped Pailtime home screen: Your Scrolltime, a glowing purple pail showing 2h 52m of scroll time left, Scroll and Recharge cards, and the Home, Insights and Settings tabs.Shipped
Hand-drawn sketch of the Pailtime home screenSketch

Stack

  • iOS
  • Mobile app
  • Screen Time framework
  • Dynamic Island
  • Digital wellbeing
Status
Live
Type
Mobile apps
Platforms
iOS
Released
Published by
Banimo
Price
Free

The problem

You open an app to check one thing, and forty minutes later you're still scrolling.

What it does

Pailtime gives your scrolling a size: a daily bucket of scrolltime. The apps you pick stay locked. To scroll, you first choose 5, 10, or 15 minutes; the bucket drains live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and the apps lock again when time runs out. Walking, reading, working out, or focusing earns time back.

How it's built

An iOS app from Banimo, built on Apple's Screen Time framework. Pailtime cannot see what you do inside your apps, and your data stays on your iPhone: no account, no ads, no tracking.

Key features

Scrolltime

  • Scrolltime bucket: your daily scrolling budget, shown as a draining bucket
  • App blocker: chosen apps stay locked until you start a scroll session on purpose
  • Live countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island

Earn time back

  • Recharge: every 2 minutes of focus, meditation, reading, workouts, walks, learning, creating, or connecting earns 1 minute of scrolltime
  • Brain games as another way to recharge

Cut down gradually

  • Half Plan: lowers your daily limit a few minutes at a time toward scrolling 50% less, with the full projection from day one
  • Resist: turn the urge to scroll into a challenge and climb the ranks
  • Insights: today's scrolltime, weekly trends, and urges resisted
  • Streaks to build momentum

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