SoftOff Live

Set the time you mean to stop. For the half hour before it, the screen warms and dims. At that time it is black, and it says good night. Warming the screen is something your phone already does. It does not end the evening. ■ Slowly, hard to notice Blue goes first, and the brightness comes down from wherever you had it. The change is meant to be difficult to catch happening. It finishes at the time you picked — not the time it starts finishing. ■ Getting back in takes a moment To bring the screen back you press and hold. The real problem is changing your mind at 1am, so that is where the friction is. Calls always come through. The notification stops the routine outright. This is not an app that locks you in. It is one that asks once more. ■ It follows you out of the app Nobody spends the half hour before bed looking at a bedtime app. The filter carries into whatever you are actually reading. Move the brightness slider mid-routine and the app takes your value as its new starting point and carries on from there. ■ And once in the morning A silent notification at your wake time. No sound, no vibration — it waits for the next time you pick up the phone. Your body clock is set more strongly by morning light than by evening dark. Not an alarm; a line for someone who is already up. ■ Every night, by how many minutes The time you actually put the phone down, kept. The streak is free. On Sunday morning you find out how the week went. It measures when you put the phone down, not when you fell asleep. A record of a bedtime habit, not sleep tracking. ■ Pro — one payment, not a subscription · A different bedtime for every day of the week · Locks that are hard to talk yourself out of · Two months of nights, scored and trended · What keeps you up, counted · Wind-down length from 10 to 120 minutes No account. No ads. Nothing collected, nothing sent anywhere. No server.