Frictify: Mindful Screen Time

You open Instagram to reply to one message and surface twenty minutes later. Frictify puts a small pause in front of the apps that do that to you. The moment you open one you have chosen, it asks two questions: what did you come for, and how long do you want? When that time is up, it reminds you what you said. You can always continue. That is the point — this is friction, not blocking. The goal is to make the scroll a decision instead of a reflex. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that pull you in — the feed, the reels, the one you check without thinking. 2. Open one. Frictify asks for your intention and a time budget. 3. A quiet countdown floats over the app, so you always know where you are. 4. When the budget runs out, you get a nudge — not a lock. THE RULES YOU CAN SET, PER APP • Intention prompt — name what you came for before you go in • App timer — a time budget for the session, with a countdown while it runs • Daily time limit — a screen time limit for that app, per day • Daily open limit — a cap on how many times you go in. Backing out costs nothing • Waits that grow — the unlock button stays disabled a little longer each time you come back • Schedules — gate the app only during the hours and days you choose, so a focus block or a bedtime holds without you having to think about it SCREEN TIME, MEASURED — NOT ESTIMATED Frictify reads Android's own usage data, so the screen time it reports is the real number, not a guess assembled from whatever the app happened to witness. Insights shows where the time went, per app, by day and by hour — plus two things a screen time report usually cannot: how often you turned back at the prompt, and how often you kept to the budget you set. NOT AN APP BLOCKER Frictify will not lock you out of your own phone, and does not pretend it could. An app blocker you can uninstall in thirty seconds is not self-control, it is theatre. What works is a pause at the moment of the reflex — long enough to notice you are reaching, short enough that you do not come to resent it. FOR THE REFLEX OPEN Frictify is a digital wellbeing app for one specific problem: the reach for a feed that happens before you have decided anything. Doomscrolling is less a failure of willpower than a question that never gets asked — the app opens straight into an infinite feed, leaving no moment in which to answer it. Frictify puts that moment back, a second before the distraction starts. It will not make you focus and it will not make you productive. It buys you the pause, then gets out of the way. FREE, AND COMPLETE Every kind of pause is included — the intention prompt, the timer, the daily limits, the growing waits, the schedules — on every app you want to guard. No trial, no account, no ads, nothing held back for a paid tier. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Frictify has no account and no server. Your intentions, your sessions and your screen time history are stored only on your device and are never uploaded. It cannot read your screen, cannot see what you type, and cannot list the apps you have installed. The only thing that ever leaves your phone is an anonymous crash report when something breaks. TEN LANGUAGES English, हिन्दी, বাংলা, 简体中文, Español, Português, Français, Русский, العربية and اردو — with right-to-left layout for Arabic and Urdu, not merely translated text. ABOUT THE ACCESSIBILITY PERMISSION Frictify uses Android's accessibility service for exactly one purpose: to know the moment an app you selected comes to the front, so the prompt can appear before you start scrolling. The service is configured so that it cannot retrieve window content. It reads the package name of the app that just opened, and nothing else — no screen content, no text you type, no personal data. Privacy policy: https://frictify.in/privacy Terms: https://frictify.in/terms