Screen Time Tracker is a productivity utility for iOS that allows users to filter and block specific apps to manage screen time.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Productivity
Sentiment
3.9
87 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to enforce stricter usage limits than native system tools allow, serving the need for digital habit control without subscription costs.
For Students and professionals seeking to monitor and restrict their device usage habits.
What does it look like?
Key features
Excludes specific apps from screen time totals to isolate unproductive usage patterns.
Enforces restrictions on selected apps and websites to prevent user override.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free, non-monetized utility with no current revenue-generating mechanisms.
Velocity
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Screen Time Tracker has been inactive for approximately 290 days, falling well outside the threshold for active development. The last recorded update consisted only of minor bug fixes and improvements. Given the lack of any feature releases or maintenance patches in over nine months, the development momentum is classified as a zombie state.
Who built it?
Jack Finnis
4 apps tracked · Productivity
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Users report: The recent review mood reads excited. Users appreciate granular categorization of productive versus unproductive app usage provides actionable insights for digital habit adjustment and subscription-free model provides a high-value alternative to native tools without hidden recurring costs or scams.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Granular categorization of productive versus unproductive app usage provides actionable insights for digital habit adjustment
- Subscription-free model provides a high-value alternative to native tools without hidden recurring costs or scams
- Accurate tracking of active screen time avoids inflating usage data when the phone remains idle
- Technical instability following the latest update prevents some users from accessing the application interface entirely
14 of 14 recent reviews analyzed · moderate confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Screen Time Tracker
How's the Productivity market?
The app occupies a niche in the Productivity category as a free, non-monetized utility. With 87 ratings, it relies on its differentiator of hard-blocking capabilities to compete against native system settings.
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Key takeaways for Screen Time Tracker
Where is it heading?
The market for screen time management is consolidating around native system tools, leaving independent utilities like this one exposed if they fail to provide unique, stable value. The lack of updates over the last nine months suggests the developer is not actively competing, which will likely lead to a decline in user retention as iOS updates break existing functionality.
- Technical instability in the latest update prevents users from accessing the interface, which erodes trust and accelerates churn.
- The nine-month development gap suggests the app is in maintenance mode, leaving it vulnerable to system-level changes in iOS.
The SWOT
- Granular categorization of productive versus unproductive app usage provides actionable insights for digital habit adjustment
- Home screen widgets could provide quick access to screen time statistics without opening the app
Next best moves
Ship stability patch for launch failures because reviews report the app fails to open post-update → restore daily active usage
The counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of monetization is its greatest risk: without a revenue stream…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains in a stagnant state with no changes to features, pricing, or sentiment, continuing to suffer from unresolved technical instability.
Bottom line
Users report: Screen Time Tracker succeeds by offering a more precise, non-predatory alternative to native system tools, but the nine-month development gap and recent launch failures threaten to alienate its core user base, so the developer must prioritize immediate stability fixes to prevent total churn.
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- [1] App Store listing, source
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