Linger is a calm counter that floats over the apps that pull you in, and gently nudges you back toward what you said mattered. It is the opposite of a blocker. You stay in charge.
You choose which apps Linger watches. Most people start with these.
Average time per user per day, from public app-usage research.
Thirty seconds in, twenty minutes out. That is design, not weakness.
The pull isn't the screen. It's what the screen lets you skip: boredom, loneliness, a quiet minute. Take the app away and the feeling stays, which is why blockers get uninstalled. Linger works on the moment instead.
Force-quitting an app you chose to keep creates rebellion, not change.
A weekly report tells you what already happened. The moment is gone.
The bubble keeps track of the time you spend and shows it to you, live, so you can act on it while it still counts. You stay in charge.
Three quiet moves. They turn on their own, or tap one.
Gentle tools, plain words. No alarms, no shame, no streaks to keep. Everything about your time stays your call.
Three states, disc to pill to full card. Cumulative for the day, so closing and reopening never resets the truth.
A 4-7-8 breathing cycle on a ring in the logo's cobalt. Thirty seconds to come back to yourself.
Rate your eight life areas; the ones you score low surface concrete things you'd rather be doing. "Five minutes with the guitar." Your words, your moment.
Per-app, global, or just for today. Opt out without uninstalling. You can always dismiss an intervention.
Set when the counter turns warm and urgent, and whether it shows time today or time saved. Plain language, no menus to decode.
Linger is not a productivity tracker and it does not care how you organise your folders. Its scope is the doom-prone apps you name, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, the games, and nothing else.
The whole thing runs on-device with no backend. We measure nothing about you unless you explicitly choose to help.
There is nothing to sign up for. Linger is a single-user app that lives entirely on your phone.
Nobody has a clear picture of what actually gets a person off autopilot. Turn one switch on and you help build one, in anonymous signals about how the app is used. Never the words you write, never your screen. It is off until you say so.
Ten dollars, one time. No ads to sell, no profile to build, nothing about you that is worth more to us than the app itself.
No subscription. We are not here to drain your wallet, that would rather defeat the point. On Android today, iPhone soon.
Leave a phone number or an email and we will tell you the moment it is ready.
The goal was never zero screen time. It's using the phone instead of disappearing into it.
Bring intention back to the apps you actually want in your life. Quietly, and on your terms.