In one line
Window is an iOS app that locks the feed apps you choose outside one daily window you set within 10 AM to 10 PM. Inside the window they're open; outside it they're locked, apart from a few short daily passes for quick checks. Mornings and nights stay protected.
The longer version
Most "screen time" apps are pause buttons. You set a limit, you blow past it, you turn the limit off when you really want to scroll. The number of people that helps is small.
Window is built on a different premise: the boundary has to be steadier than the urge to scroll. You pick one window in your day, somewhere between 10 AM and 10 PM, when the apps you've locked are open at all. Inside it they're fully open, with no time limit. Outside it they're blocked, apart from a handful of short passes for quick checks. There's no "Ignore Limit" button and no all-day override. You can shift your window or ease into a tighter one over weeks, but you can't push it into the early morning or late night. Those edges stay protected by design.
The premise is that real change in phone use isn't about rationing minutes. It's about cutting the reflexive opens, the all-day reaching that turns every free second into a scroll.
"You can't out-discipline an app that's optimized for your weakest moments. You can only put it behind a door you can't open."
Quick facts
- Product
- Window
- Maker
- BetterFeed
- Platform
- iOS 17+
- Status
- Beta (TestFlight). App Store launch summer 2026.
- Price
- Free in beta.
- Built by
- A solo, independent developer.
- Tech
- Apple's Family Controls + DeviceActivity frameworks. Runs entirely on-device; no account, no server.
- Privacy
- See the privacy page.
What's distinctive
Built to be hard to wriggle out of. Most apps in this category let the user disable them with a setting or a fee. Window leans the other way: there's no "Ignore Limit" button and no all-day override, and a window can never cover the protected early-morning or late-night hours. You can ease into a tighter window over weeks, but you can't switch the boundary off the moment the urge hits. This is the part journalists and podcasters tend to find interesting.
It's about the opens, not the minutes. Window doesn't cap your time inside the window — once it's open, it's open. The lever is the number of times you reach for these apps, not the minutes you spend. One daytime window plus a few short passes replaces the dozens of scattered checks that fragment a day. Cut the reflexive opens and the time follows.
No account, no data collection. Window has no sign-in, no email, no profile. Anonymous event counts (via Aptabase) and install-date sync (via iCloud) are the only data that leaves the device. Everything else stays on the phone.
Solo, indie, no VC. One developer, built nights and weekends. The product's posture toward the user reflects that.
Assets
Logos, the app icon, App Store screenshots, and a one-page PDF fact sheet are bundled in the press kit below.
If you need anything not in the kit (a specific resolution, a longer founder bio, a quote on a particular angle), email and we'll send it.
Press contact
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