Shutout

Lock yourself out of Screen Time & stop doomscrolling

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Shutout locks you out of Screen Time so that you don't have to rely on willpower to beat your screen addiction. No "Ignore Limit" button, no turning off your limits, and no workarounds. Set it, forget it, and enjoy a life without doomscrolling.
Why I built Shutout:
I was tired of mindlessly scrolling on my phone, so I opened Settings and set a Screen Time limit to try and stop myself.

The next day, I saw the "Time Limit" screen pop up as I scrolled, and without so much as a second thought, I pressed "Ignore Limit" and moved on.

I tried third-party blockers, like Opal and Clearspace. Those were just as easy to get around, all I had to do was flip a switch in Settings and they were completely useless (Proof: www.bit.ly/opaldoesntwork—it literally took me 5 seconds to instantly brick both apps) and were super expensive.

I looked for something different: an app with no workarounds at all, something I could set up and forget about. I couldn’t find one.

So I built my own. Shutout locks y