Set a screen time limit. Blow past it. Get personally roasted. Four tones, zero sympathy. Repeat until something changes — or until you accept that it won't.
Free · iPhone · iOS 18.6+
These numbers come from researchers. Peer-reviewed researchers, with grants and everything. They studied you. Well, not you specifically. But close enough that you should feel something.
Not in a row. Just... accumulated. Slowly. One scroll at a time. While something else was waiting.
Once every ten minutes. Without deciding to. Without meaning to. Just: hand, pocket, screen. You didn't know you were doing it. That's the part that should worry you.
A full calendar month. Evaporated. And that's the conservative estimate, which assumes you only scroll for two hours a day, which: sure. Okay.
Bold Choice didn't invent these numbers. We just put them on a website and aimed them at you. Whether that does anything is genuinely, completely, entirely up to you. We're rooting for you. In the same way someone roots for a very stubborn horse.
Screen time accountability that requires no willpower to set up — only to actually use. That part's on you.
Choose the apps draining your life. Set a daily limit you genuinely intend to stick to. Be honest about the number. You won't be.
You'll exceed it. Bold Choice watches. A notification arrives. The tone you chose is the tone you get. You made that choice. That was bold.
Daily roast counts. Weekly worst-offender reports. A full record of who's winning between you and your apps. (It's the apps. It's always the apps.)
Choose how Bold Choice talks to you. There is no tone that lets you off the hook. We checked.
Hey, you've been here a while — totally up to you! Just thought you should know. No judgment. (There is judgment.)
Overstaying your welcome — again. Your ambitions asked us to pass along their disappointment.
Put it down. We're done here. You already know this.
I'm not going to say anything. I'm just going to sit here until you figure out what you did. Your mother and I have been talking.
These are genuine responses from people who set Bold Choice to Brutal and then had to reckon with that decision.
"I used Brutal mode for one week. I am a changed person in the sense that I now use Sarcastic mode."
"My screen time is down 8 minutes this week. Truly revolutionary. Sending this to my therapist with a note that says 'see'."
"Set it to Disappointed Dad on day one. Haven't been able to look at my phone the same way since. Would recommend. Cried once."
Written about your habits. Based on available evidence. Try not to see yourself in all of it.
Denial, bargaining, anger, more bargaining, and finally a brief window of clarity at 11pm on a Tuesday. You've been through this before. You'll be back.
OpinionFrom "I was doing research" (#1, extremely common, almost never true) to "I just needed to decompress" (#4, more defensible, still a pattern).
Thought ExperimentWe imagined a world where your device told you what it actually thought about your usage habits. It was uncomfortable. We published it anyway.
Bold Choice does not sell your data. Does not know your name. Does not have an ad network. It just watches the apps you told it to watch, and roasts you when you overstay your welcome.
There is no server. No data is transmitted. Bold Choice runs entirely on your device and has never met the internet in a personal capacity.
No sign-up. No email. No profile. Bold Choice doesn't know your name, age, or location. It couldn't tell you apart from anyone if it tried.
Usage data stays in Apple's DeviceActivity framework — designed to keep this data on-device. Apple's privacy model, all the way down.
You already know your screen time is embarrassing. Bold Choice just makes sure you can't pretend otherwise. Free. iPhone only. Try not to cry.