Scrappy

Doomscrolling? Not on his watch.

Scrappy is a screen time app with a very good boy standing in front of it. He is small. He is scruffy. He takes his job extremely seriously.

Get Scrappy on the App Store

Free to start. iPhone, iOS 17 and later.

Who is guarding the door

He is.

Pick the apps that always swallow your night. Scrappy plants himself in front of them. First knock, he is polite about it. Fourth knock, he is standing on the doorknob barking his little head off.

Swiping away a reminder is easy. Getting past a dog is not.

Three tricks, no fourth

Three is all anyone needs.

  • Quiet hours

    The door is shut between two times. Evenings, work, Sunday.

  • Daily limit

    So many minutes a day, then that is it.

  • Open limit

    Six looks a day is plenty.

Scrappy blocking an app at 1am with the message: nothing good is happening in there, come to bed. A walk session running, with everything shut until you get home and a treat waiting at the end. The Scrappy home screen showing eight nights clean. Weekly stats showing rot time down 34 percent and 3 hours 12 minutes given back.

Treats are earned, never sold

His affection cannot be bought. Only walked for.

Want in anyway? That will be one treat. Treats come from real life: about 2,000 steps of walking earns one. Throw it, and you get five honest minutes before the guard is back up.

We will never, ever sell you treats.

Private, because he is a dog

Good boys do not gossip.

No account. No sign up. No server of ours, and no analytics. Your Screen Time is drawn by a sandboxed Apple extension that cannot phone home, so not one of those numbers ever leaves your phone. The only thing that does is your purchase, under an anonymous id, so he knows you are subscribed. The rest he buries in the yard.

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Free Scrappy, Pro Scrappy

Start free. He works either way.

Free

Free, forever

  • Any one rule, whole and uncrippled
  • Treats earned by walking
  • Emergency pass, once a month
  • Always allowed list
  • Every safety rail

Pro

$19.99 a year with a 7 day free trial, $4.99 a month, or $39.99 once

  • Unlimited rules
  • Rules per app
  • Longer walks
  • Weekly reports
  • Full control of the treat economy

Prices are in US dollars and vary by storefront. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Full details in the terms.

Support

Something wrong? Tell a human.

Email [email protected] and you will get a real reply. Bugs, refunds, feature ideas, or photographs of your own dog: all welcome.