Home screen
No more icons tapped on reflex.
To open an app, you type its name. Two letters are enough, and the urge has time to pass.
Features
Everything Livetime does.
A home screen that breaks reflexes, reins in the apps that hold on to you and leaves you everything else. Every feature is filmed on a real phone.
Compulsive apps
A wait that keeps growing.
For the apps you open without thinking, like your email. One second the first time, then three, six, nine, with every visit of the day. The reflex breaks on its own.
Addictive apps
Your time, decided before you go in.
Before you open Instagram or TikTok, Livetime asks how many minutes you want to spend there. When the time is up, the app closes and reminds you what you had planned to do. You can also set a daily time goal for each app.
Your limit
Soft, flexible or rigid.
You choose whether you can add time once the limit is reached:
- Soft: as often as you like.
- Flexible: 15 minutes a day at most.
- Rigid: never.
Instagram custom
Instagram, without the Reels.
Livetime opens Instagram in a lighter view. You keep your friends, your messages and your stories, and you choose what to remove:
- Hide the Reels button.
- Hide suggested posts.
- Hide the home feed.
- Hide posts on the Explore page.
- Turn Instagram black and white.
YouTube custom
YouTube, without the pull.
You come for one video, then you leave. In Livetime's lighter view, you can:
- Hide the Shorts button.
- Hide home page recommendations.
- Hide suggested videos, below the video and at the end.
- Hide thumbnails.
Modes
One gesture, and your phone changes its role.
In Sleep, Focus or Sport mode, your home screen keeps only the apps for the moment. You schedule the ones that come back: Sleep can start on its own at 10 pm. And you choose the difficulty:
- Easy: stop it whenever you want.
- Moderate: three two-minute breaks.
- Hard: no breaks, no way to cheat.
A mode for every moment
Focus. Work out. Sleep.
Each mode has its own apps. And since Livetime is your home screen, there's no other door to get around it.
Your screen time
Only distracting time counts.
Reviewing on Anki or following a route on Maps isn't wasted time. You choose which apps are distracting, and Livetime only measures the time that slips away from you, day after day and week after week.
And also
Everything that helps you live more.
A check-in to startA few questions, your screen-time guess against the reality of your last few days, what it adds up to over a lifetime, then a plan to win back years. Neither restrictive nor frustrating.
Website blockingThe sites that eat up your time close in the browser too. Unblocking a site only takes effect the next day.
Second BrainA page of quick notes, like a chat, one swipe from the home screen. An idea jotted down in two seconds, without opening another app.
PomodoroWork and break cycles set the way you like. During work, you have to press and hold to quit.
Tasks and habitsA task gets done once; a habit comes back. Both show up on your home screen.
Useful widgetsClock, date, calendar, weather, a photo, the progress of the year and the month.
Photos that inspireChoose photos that make you want to look up: a new one every time you wake your phone.
Always-allowed appsThe apps you choose stay available in every mode.
No adsLivetime doesn't sell your attention. No ads, and the accessibility permission is only used for website blocking: it reads the address shown in your browser, nothing else.
Getting started
Three steps, and you're off.
- 1
Download Livetime on Google Play.
- 2
Do your check-in and estimate your screen time. Then a guided setup installs everything with you, step by step: it's all guided, and very simple.
- 3
Done. You're already starting to cut your screen time. Congratulations.
“Compared with all the other apps, it's the easiest one to get the hang of.”
To be clear
What Livetime doesn't do.
- It doesn't work on iPhone: only Android lets you replace the home screen.
- It doesn't delete any app: everything stays available by typing its name.
- It shows no ads and sells nothing about what you do.
- It doesn't read anything in your apps. The accessibility permission is only used for website blocking, if you turn it on: it reads the address shown in your browser, and that's all.