Put it down.
Sit with it.
the root cause of your screen addiction, not the next productivity gimmick
You don't have a productivity problem.
You have a relationship problem — with the thing in your pocket.
Every productivity app assumes the same thing: that you'll use your phone more carefully if you just have better tools for it. But the phone isn't the tool. It's the habit. Another app promising to help you focus is still an app asking for your attention — one more tab, one more notification, one more reason to look down.
A lock you commit to. A reflection you sit with. Time that actually counts.
Offscreen is built around one motion: lock your phone away for a session, then reflect on what came up while you waited. No streaks to protect, no dashboard to check obsessively — just cumulative time spent away from your screen, and a quiet record of what that time actually felt like.
It isn't trying to be the app you open most. It's trying to be the one you need least, over time.
What OFFSCREEN does
One shake. Locked in.
No dashboard to scroll, no feed to check. The home screen stays out of your way — shake your phone and the lock starts immediately.
Put your phone down. Really down.
Start a lock session and the countdown holds you to it — from a few minutes to a full day, depending on where you are in your progress. No shortcuts, no dismiss button. Just the time, and the choice to sit with it.
Progress measured in time and pattern tracking. Not streaks broken.
Offscreen tracks cumulative time locked away from your phone — not calendar-day streaks that reset and shame you. Every session adds up toward the next status tier, permanently.
Name the pattern before you can pretend it isn't there.
Before the lock starts, pick what's actually driving you to reach for your phone — escape, impulse control, doomscrolling. Not a mood emoji, the real behavioral trigger.
Say it out loud. Nothing else to do.
This is the real reflection: hold to speak, let go when you're done. No prompts, no formatting, no audience — just your own voice, transcribed and kept for you.
Every session brings the next tier closer.
The time you spend away from your phone adds up. Reach a new status tier as your total grows — progress that stays with you, one session at a time.
Simple, on purpose.
- The lock — included
- Reasons — included
- Voice journals recorded — included
- OFFSCREEN status — not included
- Life regained — not included
- Tier status — not included
- Weekly AI reports — not included
- Behavioral patterns — not included
- Saved reflections — not included
- The lock — included
- Reasons — included
- Voice journals recorded — included
- OFFSCREEN status — included
- Life regained — included
- Tier status — included
- Weekly AI reports — included
- Behavioral patterns — included
- Saved reflections — included
What's shipped lately.
More ways to make OFFSCREEN yours
This update adds support for lifetime access alongside subscription options, improves how paid access is recognized, and adds an easy way to rate OFFSCREEN from the account menu.
You don't need another app demanding your attention.
You need OFFSCREEN.
Built for iOS only.Android coming soon.