Earn your scroll time.
Healthy Stuff First blocks the apps you choose until you have done the habits you picked.
You can only use Instagram after you have gone for a walk.
How it works
Two lists and a stopwatch. There is nothing else to learn.
Pick habits worth doing
Go for a walk. Stretch. Thirty minutes of real work. Whatever you keep meaning to do. Each habit is worth however many minutes you decide it is worth.
Pick the apps that eat the day
Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or the websites you lose afternoons to. They stay blocked until you have finished enough habits to unlock them.
Hold a habit down to complete it
Ten full seconds, because a checkbox is too easy to tap without thinking. Swipe to undo it if you tapped the wrong one.
The app is one screen
It reads like a sentence: what you still have to do, which apps stay shut until you do it, and how much time you have earned and spent today. No dashboard, no graphs, nothing to check in on.
When the earned time runs out, Android pulls you out of whatever you were scrolling. iOS has no equivalent, so Screen Time drops a shield over the app instead. Same rules, whatever the platform will let us do.
It all works offline with no account. Sign in only if you want one budget shared across your phone, your tablet and the Firefox and Chrome extension, which blocks websites on the same clock.
Why bother
The apps you are trying to use less are not neutral. Auto-play, infinite scroll and the notification you get for no reason at all are the work of teams paid to keep you there, and they are better at their job than any of us are at resisting it.
So this app does not try to make you disciplined. It puts something small and good in front of the thing you were going to do anyway. Ten push-ups before YouTube cures nothing, but you do end up doing the push-ups.
No streaks
Nothing to protect, nothing to lose on a bad day.
No account needed
Sign in only if you want the same budget on several devices.
No ads, no trackers
Nobody is buying your attention here either.
Your data stays put
Habits and usage live on your phone unless you ask them to sync.
Other people, saying it better
Want some other perspectives on phone addiction and overuse, or just prefer video? These are a good place to start.
Coming to Android and iOS
The store listings are not live yet. Both are being prepared, and this page will link straight to them the day they go up. If you want a note when that happens, send me an email and I will write back.
- Google Play Coming soon
- Apple App Store Coming soon