GentleLimit

Amrani Yasser, Simon Wallace, and Sulochanal Chellian looked at every screen time app on the market and saw the same thing—a bunch of digital nag screens and app blockers that treat you like a child who can't control yourself. So they built something different. GentleLimit is mindful screen time for macOS that doesn't block anything. No confrontational timers, no guilt trips, no locked apps forcing you to "earn" your way back. Just gentle nudges that make you aware of how much time you're actually spending—and then trust you to do something about it.

Most screen time tools fight human nature and lose. They block, they restrict, they annoy—and people just disable them or use their phone instead. GentleLimit flips the script. It works in the background, tracks your usage patterns, and when you're deep in a doom scroll, it simply... reminds you. No walls, no barriers. Just awareness. It's the difference between a drill sergeant and a meditation app. One shouts, the other whispers. Turns out whispering works better when you're trying to build lifelong habits.

Available on macOS, built for people who are tired of fighting their tools. If you're over screen time products that treat you like a problem to be solved, GentleLimit is the breath of fresh air you didn't know you needed.