Screen-time, reframed

Your life is about 4,000 weeks. Stop handing them to a screen.

DOTS draws every week of your life as a single dot, then shows how many you are quietly giving to your phone. See the cost, set a daily limit, block the apps that steal your time — and earn Premium with discipline, not just dollars.

Built for iPhone & iPad · 100% on-device · No account required
DOTS home screen showing today's screen time, streak, and life grid.
Weeks left
2,437
Make them count
Kept days
7
One dot
1 week of your life
A lifetime
~4,000 weeks
Processing
On-device
Data collected
Zero
The app

The whole of your time, in one honest picture.

DOTS turns an abstract idea — that your life is finite — into something you can see, touch, and defend, every single day.

Card 01

The Life Grid

Every week of your life, drawn as a dot. The ones you've lived, the one you're in, the weeks you're on pace to spend on a screen, and the free weeks still yours to claim. Drag the slider and watch a smaller daily habit hand weeks back.

DOTS life grid with lived, current, on-screen, and free weeks.
Card 02

Time Thieves

Where today actually went, ranked app by app. DOTS surfaces the apps quietly taking your hours and lets you round them up into a daily budget in one tap — so the worst offenders lock themselves down.

DOTS Time Thieves screen ranking apps by time spent.
Card 03

Daily Limit & Focus

Set a daily budget on your chosen apps; when it's spent, they lock until midnight. Or start a Focus Session to block distractions for a set time, right now. Unlock early with five quiet minutes of patience — or money that's meant to sting.

DOTS Focus Session timer blocking apps.
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Earn it back

Stay under your daily goal seven days in a row and earn a week of Premium — free. DOTS rewards discipline, not just spending, so the app pays you back in the currency it cares about: reclaimed time.

DOTS focus presets for setting a session length.
Card 05

Make it a promise

Sign a personal pledge — your name, your goal, your remaining weeks — and share a single card that says it out loud: I'm not handing my weeks to a screen.

DOTS pledge card with the user's commitment.
How it works

From abstract to action in four steps.

DOTS uses Apple's Screen Time framework entirely on your device. Your usage never leaves your phone.

1

See your weeks

Enter your birthday and DOTS renders your life as a grid of weeks, with the time you're on pace to lose to screens.

2

Catch your thieves

DOTS ranks the apps taking your day and shows the real weekly and yearly cost of the habit.

3

Set a budget & block

Choose apps, set a daily limit, or start a focus session. When the budget is spent, they lock.

4

Earn it back

Hold your goal day after day, build a streak, and earn Premium — paid in discipline, not dollars.

Feature tour

Everything you need to take your time back.

A life visualizer, an app blocker, and a quiet accountability partner — together in one private, on-device app.

The Life Grid

Your whole life as weeks, with an interactive slider that shows the cost of every hour on screen.

Daily Limit

A budget on your worst apps. Spend it and they lock until midnight — no willpower required.

Focus Sessions

Block distractions for a set time, starting now — 25 minutes, two hours, or until tomorrow.

Time Thieves

A ranked, honest view of where today went — and a one-tap way to put the worst apps on a budget.

Streaks & Earned Premium

Keep your goal seven days running and unlock Premium for free. Discipline is the price.

Home Screen Widgets

Your weeks-left count and app-guard status, glanceable right on your home screen.

Privacy

Your screen-time never leaves your device.

DOTS is built on Apple's Screen Time framework, which keeps your usage on your phone by design. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no ads.

01

On-device by design

App usage is measured by Apple's Screen Time APIs and stays on your device — DOTS can't and doesn't upload it.

02

Data not collected

No tracking, no advertising identifiers, no analytics SDKs. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected."

03

Private sync

Your profile and streak sync through your own private iCloud — readable only by you, never by us.

App version

Made for iPhone and iPad.

iPhone app

Native SwiftUI app with a Metal-powered life grid, home screen widgets, and full Screen Time blocking.

App Store link coming soon

iPad app

The same engine and features, with a sidebar layout and a life grid that fills the larger canvas.

Universal download

Take your weeks back.

DOTS is coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The download link will live here as soon as it's available.

Coming soon on theApp Store