Choose what to reduce
Track and limit the categories that pull you into autopilot, like social, games, entertainment, or browsing.
Not all screen time is the same
Make every unlock intentional.
Timo helps you reduce the apps that drain your time and increase the phone time that actually helps you: learning, reading, studying, planning, and making progress. Because one hour of scrolling is not the same as one hour of learning.
Uses Apple Screen Time tools
Payments handled by Apple
No Screen Time data sold or used for ads
How Timo works
Shift your phone time in the right direction
Timo helps you reduce passive apps and build more intentional time for the apps that move you forward.
Choose what to grow
Set targets for useful phone time, like reading, learning, studying, notes, planning, or language practice.
Unlock with intention
Put both distracting and productive apps behind a reason and a duration, so opening them becomes a choice.
Track the balance
Work toward less wasted time and more useful phone time with daily targets, reminders, and history.
App screenshots
Designed around the moment you reach for your phone
Real product screens show how Timo helps you choose what happens next.
Why it matters
Less brainrot. More useful screen time.
The goal is not to hate your phone. The goal is to spend less time in loops and more time on the things that feel good after.
Reduce the loops
Spend less of your day disappearing into scrolling, gaming, feeds, and other habits that leave you feeling empty.
Increase the useful time
Build more intentional sessions for reading, learning, studying, planning, and the apps you want to use on purpose.
See the difference
Track the habits you want less of and the productive phone time you want more of.
What changes
Track both sides of your phone habits
Distracting app tracking
See and reduce the categories that pull you into scrolling, feeds, games, or passive entertainment.
Productive app targets
Set goals for the phone time you want more of, like learning, reading, studying, notes, or planning.
Intentional unlocks
Open apps with a reason and a time limit before the session starts, including productive apps when you want that extra intention.
Practical essentials
Keep essentials like messages, maps, banking, calendar, and utilities available so daily life still works.
Trust and privacy
Built with Apple's privacy controls in mind
- Uses Apple Screen Time and Family Controls permissions for user-enabled blocking and reports.
- Subscriptions are handled through Apple In-App Purchases and managed with RevenueCat.
- Timo does not sell personal data or use Screen Time data for advertising.
FAQ
Common questions
Timo is an iPhone app for replacing mindless scrolling with better phone time. It helps you track distracting and productive app use, reduce the habits you want less of, and increase learning, reading, studying, and other intentional phone sessions.
Yes. Timo can keep essentials like messaging, maps, utilities, calendar, or banking available for day-to-day practicality. Exceptions make the system easier to live with, while Timo's main focus is helping you reduce distracting use and increase productive phone time.
No. Timo works alongside Apple's Screen Time and Family Controls tools, adding guided sessions, flexible app access rules, reminders, and habit-focused support around them.
No. Timo uses Apple permissions to support blocking, limits, and activity-related features you enable. Timo does not sell Screen Time-related data or use it for advertising.
Timo requires an active Pro subscription to use its app features. Subscription details, pricing, and any trial information are shown before purchase through Apple's In-App Purchase system.
Free worksheet + early access
Get the Phone Time Audit
Join the Timo waitlist and download a free worksheet for sorting your phone time, spotting draining loops, and setting a simple 7 day goal.
- Sort phone time into leisure and productivity buckets
- Spot what recharges you and what drains you
- Set a simple 7 day goal for better phone time
Articles
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Not all screen time is equal
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Why screen time limits fail
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How to reduce phone usage
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Legal
Read how Timo handles data, accounts, subscriptions, analytics, and app usage.
A small shift adds up