The average person loses 4+ hours a day to mindless scrolling. Unscrol blocks the apps that steal your attention, protects your study and work sessions, and turns quitting the scroll into a streak you'll actually want to keep.
Free to start · iPhone & Apple Watch
27-day streak
going strong
Feeds are engineered by thousands of engineers to keep you scrolling. Willpower alone is not a fair fight — you need a system.
4h 37m
average daily screen time spent on phones worldwide — over 70 full days a year.
2,617
the average user touches their phone thousands of times per day, mostly on autopilot.
23 min
how long it takes to fully refocus after a single "quick check" of your phone.
The real cost
Set your average daily scrolling and watch what you'd get back.
Unscrol helps you win a big chunk of that back — one focus session and one streak at a time.
Features
Not just another timer. Unscrol combines real app blocking, honest screen time data, and habit science in one app.
Pick the apps that eat your day and Unscrol shields them using Apple's Screen Time technology. When you try to open them, a calm wall reminds you why you quit scrolling.
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Remember why you quit scrolling. Your focus is protected.
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Studying for an exam? Deep in work? Start a focus session and Unscrol blocks your distraction apps until you're done — with a Live Activity countdown on your Lock Screen so leaving your phone alone feels like winning.
Gamification
Study, learning, creativity, brain health, calm and daily life — 45+ challenges across 6 categories. Timed ones launch a linked focus session in one tap; the day is credited when the session is logged. Miss a day? Streak Saver rescues it.
Current streak
last 5 weeks
Featured challenges
45+ challenges25-min Pomodoro study
Finish a book in 21 days
Daily sudoku
Meditate 10 minutes
Phone-Free July
Leaderboard
A taste of the catalog
…and 20+ more. Timed challenges connect straight to a focus session via a "start N-minute focus" button.
Your streak, focus timer, and daily progress live on your Apple Watch and home screen widgets — so staying accountable doesn't require opening your phone (which is the whole point).
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Log the pull to scroll and its trigger in one tap. Track your mood as your screen time drops and watch the correlation appear.
Sit down, start a session, and distractions go dark until you're done. From pomodoro to deep work.
A sanctuary mode with breathing exercises for hard moments. Small interruption, big change.
Who it's for
However the scroll pulls you, Unscrol meets you there.
Protect study sessions and beat exam-week procrastination.
Guard long focus blocks from the constant pull of notifications.
Break the late-night loop and get your evenings back.
Build a calmer relationship with your phone, one day at a time.
For students & deep workers
You sit down to study. Ten minutes in, a notification — and 40 minutes vanish into a feed. Unscrol was built to break exactly this loop.
Protect your next study sessionChoose your duration — a 25-minute pomodoro or a 3-hour deep-work block.
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — whatever you picked is shielded until the session ends.
A Live Activity counts down on your Lock Screen. Finish, log the session, grow the streak.
Three habits, five minutes a day. That's the whole system.
Guess your screen time, then see the truth. Most people underestimate by hours.
Shield your distraction apps during focus, study, and evenings. Apple's Screen Time does the enforcing.
Check in daily, complete challenges, protect your focus. Your streak becomes the habit that replaces scrolling.
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Apple Screen Time can hide apps. Unscrol changes the habit underneath.
Unscrol uses Apple's on-device Screen Time frameworks. Which apps you block, how long you use them, your usage stats — none of it ever reaches our servers. We couldn't sell your attention data even if we wanted to. That's the point.
Read the privacy policy →A screen time control and digital detox app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It blocks distracting apps using Apple's Screen Time technology, runs focus sessions that protect your study and work time, shows honest reports, and uses streaks and challenges to make reducing screen time a habit that sticks.
Unscrol uses Apple's official Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls and Managed Settings). You pick the apps you want to block in a system picker, and iOS shields them during sessions or scheduled times. Because the blocking is enforced by the OS, it's far harder to bypass than a simple reminder.
Yes — free to download and use, including check-ins, streaks, screen time insights and focus sessions. Unscrol Pro unlocks premium features like Streak Saver and the full challenge catalog with a monthly or annual subscription.
No. Apple's Screen Time APIs are privacy-first by design: Unscrol only receives opaque tokens for the apps you select, never their names. Your usage statistics are processed on-device and never sent to our servers.
A single missed day doesn't have to erase months of progress. Unscrol Pro includes Streak Saver, which can rescue one fully-missed day (up to twice a week). Two or more consecutive missed days can't be rescued — the streak stays honest.
Most blockers stop at blocking. Unscrol combines system-level blocking with the habit side: guess-vs-real screen time, a unified daily streak, 45+ challenges, mood and urge tracking, a leaderboard, and Apple Watch support. It's designed to change the habit, not just interrupt it.
Join thousands earning their time back. Download Unscrol free and start your first streak today.
Download Unscrol on the App Store