PlayTime
A field guide, not a feed
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
PlayTime is a small illustrated encyclopedia that lives where your feeds used to. When you reach for your phone, it offers a few beautiful pages instead.
Open it and the shelf is yours: ten hand-illustrated worlds to wander, from Australian animals and the deep sea to space, maps, flags and machines. Every fact is real, checked, and told the way a favourite teacher would tell it.
READ A LITTLE, PLAY A LITTLE Each outing is one short chapter and five quick questions. It ends at camp, a natural stopping point with a curio worth keeping. There is no endless scroll and nothing autoplays. The book simply closes.
ASK THE BINDERY Tell the bindery what you are curious about. Formula 1, whales, chess, the city you just moved to. It presses an illustrated volume on that subject, just for you, and puts it on your shelf.
TAKE THE LONG WAY Choose a pace of 7, 14, 21 or 28 days and a volume becomes a journey: one chapter each day, read then play, pressed into your journal as you go.
THE CLEARING With your permission, PlayTime keeps a gentle ledger of the scrolling time you take back. It counts in about-numbers, never to the minute, and it never takes anything away. Reclaimed hours grow a clearing and press special editions of your journal.
CATCH YOURSELF REACHING An optional one-time setup with the Shortcuts app turns the reach for a feed into an open book: your phone opens today's chapter instead.
A QUIET BOOK No ads. No streaks, timers or guilt. No comments and no strangers. Nothing to buy inside. Your journal fills with stickers and editions you earned by reading, and that is all.
WORKS OFFLINE The whole shelf travels with you. An account exists only so your journal can follow you onto a new phone, and you can delete it, and everything with it, from inside the app.
Made in Canberra, Australia.
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Information
- Seller
- Samvit Jain
- Size
- 32.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © PlayTime Copyright 2026