Features
Everything TimePaws does.
Limits that make sense, reminders people like, and insights that show progress. All in one small app that respects your privacy.
Animal friends
Eight characters, five moods each.
Every animal has a full range of expressions. They start happy, get a bit sad if you keep scrolling, and grumpy if you really push it. Leave early and they celebrate. Tap a mood to see the whole crew.
Free plan: the sheep. Pro and Family: all eight. Give any of them a name and they wear a little name tag when they visit.
Reminders
A nudge you notice, in the app you're using.
When a limit is reached, your animal appears over whatever is on screen. Tap it and it leaves. It never blocks the app or locks the phone.
Four ways to cross the screen
Three reminder moods
- Calm. Every reminder is the same gentle visit.
- Playful (default). Ignored reminders bring the animal back bigger, faster and a little grumpy.
- Persistent. Grumpy and noisy: extra chimes and stronger buzzes until it's break time.
Prefer something quieter? Switch to a plain notification, or turn reminders off and just keep the statistics. Use Preview reminder to see exactly what it will look like.
A visible "2 more minutes" button (or press and hold the animal) pauses reminders once per session, so a video or a message can be finished. After that, the animal is back.
Limits
Two limits that cover real life.
Daily limit
A total budget across all tracked apps for the day. The home screen shows how much is left, and the reminder arrives when it's used up.
Session limit
Catches the "just one more video" spiral: a reminder after a set number of continuous minutes in one app, even if the daily budget isn't used up.
Streaks & celebrations
Reward the good days.
Screen-time tools usually only say "no." TimePaws also says "nice job."
- Celebrations. Close a social app before your session limit and your animal throws a little party on the way out.
- Streaks. Every full day under your goal adds to your streak. The flame on the home screen shows it, along with your best ever.
- Free for everyone. Moods, celebrations and streaks are part of the free plan.
Insights
See where the time actually goes.
The Insights tab (Pro and Family) turns raw minutes into patterns you can act on.
- Time reclaimed. How much time you won back compared with the week before.
- Per-app breakdown. Which apps take the biggest share.
- Sessions. How many times a day apps get opened, and how long a typical session runs.
- Hour-of-day heatmap. Spot late-night scrolling or the after-school spike.
2 h 15 min won back
Daily average: 41 min (was 60 min)
morningevening
Illustration with example data
Home-screen widget
Your budget, visible without opening anything.
A budget you can see is a budget you think about. Place the TimePaws widget on your home screen and today's minutes update live as you use your apps. Tap it to open the app.
Illustration
Apps & languages
Works with the apps that matter.
Choose which ones to track. The free plan tracks any two; Pro and Family track all ten.
Speaks your family's language
The app is available in seven languages and follows the phone's language setting.
Ready to meet your animal?
Start free with the sheep. Upgrade once if you want the whole crew.
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