Scrappy: Screen Time Guard Dog

App Blocker & Focus Friend

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Scrappy is a screen-time app with a very good boy standing in front of it. He's small. He's scruffy. He takes his job extremely seriously. His job is standing between you and the apps that eat your evenings. WHO'S GUARDING THE DOOR? HE IS. Pick the apps that always swallow your night. Scrappy plants himself in front of them. First knock, he's polite about it. Fourth knock, he's standing on the doorknob barking his little head off. Swiping away a reminder is easy. Getting past a dog is not. FIRST, THE SNIFF TEST Before he takes the job, Scrappy shows you your own Screen Time: your real week, what it costs in hours (and, gulp, years), and the deal he proposes. Apple draws the numbers right on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. He's a dog. THREE TRICKS, NO FOURTH He knows exactly three tricks, because three is all anyone needs: • Quiet hours: the door is shut between two times. Evenings, work, Sunday. • Daily limit: so many minutes a day, then that's it. • Open limit: six looks a day is plenty. Or grab a ready-made rule off the shelf: The morning shift, Sunday off, Six looks, After midnight. TREATS ARE EARNED, NEVER SOLD Want in anyway? That'll be one treat. Treats come from real life: about 2,000 steps of walking earns one. Throw it, and you get five honest minutes before the guard is back up. We will never, ever sell you treats. His affection cannot be bought. Only walked for. SIT. STAY. Every guarded app gets a resistance level. Negotiable apps open for a treat. Firm apps make you sit for ten seconds first, just long enough to notice you didn't really want to open it. Absolute apps? He will not take the treat. Don't make it weird. HE'S A QUICK LEARNER After a week of watching, he might nudge a ceiling down, but only when your real worst day sits far below it, only ever as an offer, one tap to accept. Nothing tightens on its own. He proposes. You decide. He's a professional. WALKIES Heading out? Start a walk: a named session where he guards everything while you're gone, Live Activity on your lock screen and all. Finish it, and yes, obviously: that's a treat. BUILT TO BE LIVED WITH • Emergency pass: one a month, for boarding passes and genuine emergencies. He doesn't scold. He just... looks at you. • Always-allowed list, so the important stuff never gets caught in the crossfire. • Removal lock (optional, ships off): closes the 11pm delete-and-reinstall loophole. Turning it off takes a day, long enough to outlast an urge, and you're never truly stuck. • Honest stats: what he blocked, what you got back. The numbers never lie and never tease. PRIVATE, BECAUSE HE'S A DOG No account. No sign-up. No server of ours, and no analytics. Your Screen Time is drawn by a sandboxed Apple extension that can't phone home, so not one of those numbers ever leaves your phone. The only thing that does is your purchase, under an anonymous id, so he knows you're subscribed. The rest he buries in the yard. Good boys don't gossip. FREE SCRAPPY, PRO SCRAPPY Free Scrappy guards your worst hour: any one rule, whole and uncrippled, plus every safety rail above. Pro Scrappy runs your whole week: unlimited rules, rules per app, longer walks, weekly reports, and full control of the treat economy for the strict of heart. ONE MORE THING You can pet him. Twelve reactions. One of them is a 1-in-200. People say it's worth it. Privacy Policy: https://scrappy-app.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://scrappy-app.com/terms

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    2 Ratings

He speaks your language now. Everything he says has been translated: the words on the door when he stops you, the bark that reaches you with the phone still in your pocket, the questions he asks the first time you meet. By default he simply follows your phone, and if you would rather be told off in another language, Settings has a Language row. His numbers came with it. If your phone keeps a twenty-four hour clock, so does he, and dates, counts and prices are written the way your part of the world writes them. Two repairs worth naming. On a phone set to Light Mode, the words on the door could come out white on white. They are readable again, with thanks to the person who sent the photograph. And when he had several apps to watch at once, a day's hours could come out short, or yesterday's could still be sitting on top of today's. He keeps every day on its own now, so what he shows you is what you actually spent. Thank you for having him.

The developer, Shrenik Choudhary, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Identifiers

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Seller
  • Shrenik Choudhary
Size
  • 67.2 MB
Category
  • Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 32 more
  • English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Scrappy Forever $39.99
  • Scrappy Pro Monthly $4.99
  • Scrappy Pro Yearly $19.99
Copyright
  • © Copyright 2026 - Scrappy: Your Focus Friend