Grubblin: Screen Time Goblin

The anti-doomscroll goblin

Only for iPhone

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

iPhone

The swamp is alive. Lock your doom apps - Grub feasts, guards, and naps in a living pixel world. Your creatures greet you and leave little gifts. No accounts, no cloud. Meet Grub. He is small, green, and extremely judgmental about your screen time. Grubblin turns quitting the doomscroll into keeping a pet alive. You pick the apps that melt your brain, you swear a daily vow of locked hours, and Grub lives or rots by whether you keep your word. That is the whole deal. It is simple, it is brutal, and it is surprisingly fair. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your doom apps. Instagram, TikTok, whatever owns you. 2. Swear the daily vow. How long do they stay locked each day? 3. Lock them. One tap for 30 minutes, an hour, three hours. Or set a nightly schedule and let it happen by itself. 4. Keep the vow and Grub heals, your streak grows, and good things wash up in the swamp. Miss it and he rots. He will also say something rude about it. THE TOLL GATE Outside your locks, the doom apps stay shielded. Want to scroll anyway? Knock, and beg Grub for a 15 minute pass. Every pass costs him a little health and comes out of a daily allowance. When the allowance is gone, the gates close until midnight. You can always break through in an emergency. He will remember. THE GOBLIN GROWS Clean days build streaks. Streaks evolve Grub from a sprout into a lurker and, if you are truly reformed, a swamp elder. Every day the widget sits on your home screen, thriving or rotting in real time. It is the most effective guilt ever shipped in 4 by 2 inches. GRUBBLIN PLUS Keep a 7 day streak and an egg washes up in the swamp. Keep it warm with clean days and something strange crawls out. There are 12 creatures to hatch and raise, from babies to elders. They can take over duty from Grub, they build trust with you, and they take betrayal very personally. Plus also unlocks HD exports of your weekly time lapse. One subscription or a single lifetime purchase, your choice. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Grubblin collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no ads, no cloud. Apple's Screen Time system hands us scrambled tokens, so we cannot even see which apps you picked. Everything lives on your phone and deleting the app deletes it all. THE FINE PRINT, HONESTLY Grubblin cannot read your mind or your apps. It blocks what you tell it to block, it frees what you beg it to free, and the escape hatch always works. The only thing standing between you and the scroll is a small green creature who believed in you. Do not let him down. Privacy policy: https://grubblin-support.karolisvalatka0.workers.dev/#privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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The swamp is alive now. Grub potters, guards, feasts, and sleeps in a real place that changes with the time of day. Your creatures stand around the swamp, sleep at night, greet you when you visit, and leave you little gifts when they trust you. A Live Activity counts your lock down right on the lock screen. First-timers get one honest 15-minute promise instead of a lecture. Locks got fairer too: apps now unlock the moment the timer ends, Grub celebrates the second a lock finishes, and ending early keeps every minute you served (the feast is off, though). All-day gates are now an opt-in hard mode. If anything feels off, tell us: karolisvalatka0@gmail.com

Version 1.1

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    Information

    Seller
    • Karolis Valatka
    Size
    • 18.7 MB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.1 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • Grubblin Plus Lifetime $49.99
    • Grubblin Plus $24.99
    • Grubblin Plus $4.99
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    Copyright
    • © 2026 Karolis Valatka
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