Threshold puts a short pause in front of the apps you choose, so opening one is a decision again instead of a reflex. It isn't a blocker that locks you out. It asks one question, and that's often enough to put the phone down sooner.
A pause like this works. In a six-week study published in PNAS in 2023, a short pause before an app opened cut how often people opened it by 57%.
How it works
• Pick the apps that pause from Apple's Screen Time list, like Instagram or TikTok.
• When you open one, Threshold's question covers it. Close the app, or say what you came for.
• Choose your minutes. The choices change with how much of your daily limit is left.
• When time's up, answer in a tap: Completed, Some of it, or Not this time. Or take five more minutes.
Back for the same thing? On iOS 26.4 and later, the screen over the app lists your last two reasons, so one tap starts the pause.
The pause
It starts at ten seconds, and you can set it anywhere from 3 to 30. Complete three visits in a row in an app, and that app's pause gets shorter. Each time you close an app at the pause, Threshold counts it as changing your mind.
Your day
• One daily limit shared by the apps you pick, and a limit for each app if you want one.
• Home shows the minutes you have left, your streak, and your intention score: how often you did what you came for over the last two weeks.
• Your streak counts the days in a row you stay under your limit. The first day over each week is a rest day and doesn't end it.
• Sessions lists every visit: what you came for, how long you stayed, and how it went.
• Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen show your minutes left, and a Live Activity keeps your reason on the Lock Screen while you're in an app.
Stone you earn
The arch in Threshold is built from stone you earn by staying under your limit: clay at 3 days in a row, sandstone at 7, marble at 30, bronze at 100, and alabaster at 365.
Breaks
Need a day off? Take a break until tomorrow, until Monday, or for a week, and the apps open without the pause until it ends.
Privacy
Threshold uses Apple's Screen Time, which keeps the apps you pick private. There's no account and there are no ads, and nothing you write leaves your phone.
Threshold needs iOS 17 or later and your permission to use Screen Time. It's also a Chrome extension that puts the same pause in front of the websites you choose.
Notes et avis
Cette app n’a pas reçu suffisamment de notes ou d’avis pour en proposer un aperçu.
Le développeur Boston Children's Hospital a indiqué que les pratiques de l’app en matière de confidentialité peuvent inclure le traitement des données tel que décrit ci‑dessous. Pour en savoir plus, consultez la politique de confidentialité du développeur .
Données non collectées
Le développeur ne collecte aucune donnée avec cette app.
Les pratiques en matière de confidentialité peuvent varier, notamment en fonction des fonctionnalités que vous utilisez ou de votre âge. En savoir plus
Le développeur a indiqué que cette app prend en charge les fonctionnalités d’accessibilité suivantes. En savoir plus
Fonctionnalités prises en charge
Interface sombre
Animations réduites
Informations
Fournisseur
Children's Hospital Corporation
Taille
12,4 Mo
Catégorie
Productivité
Compatibilité
Nécessite iOS 17.0 ou version ultérieure.
iPhone Nécessite iOS 17.0 ou version ultérieure.
Mac Nécessite macOS 14.0 ou une version ultérieure et un Mac doté d’une puce Apple M1 ou une version ultérieure.
Apple Vision Nécessite visionOS 1.0 ou version ultérieure.