FR1ENDS

Screen time, but your fr1ends hold the keys.

You set the limits. Your friends decide when you get more. No more sneaking 3 more hours of TikTok at 1 AM.

Coming Soon

You already tried Apple's Screen Time. You blew past “Ignore Limit” inside a week, because the only person standing between you and the feed was you.

How it works

  1. 01

    Pick your poison

    Choose exactly which apps to cap using Apple's own app picker, and set a daily minute budget for each one. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — whatever eats your evening.

    Apps and Websites list showing per-app daily limits and a Today's Screen Time ring.
  2. 02

    Hit the cap, hit a wall

    Real shields, not guilt-trips. When the budget runs out the app is actually blocked at the OS level — there is no override button to press, no “15 more minutes” to tap.

    THAT’S IT BUDDY
    LOCK IN

    Close

    The block screen. That's the whole screen.

  3. 03

    Ask your group

    Need 15 more minutes? Pick the app, enter the minutes, and give a reason. The request lands in your group chat and starts counting down. Your friends vote. You wait.

    Group chat with a pending extension request for Instagram: 5 minutes, 0 of 1 votes, 5 hours 51 minutes left, reason “Bored and don't know what to do”.

Everyone can see who's cooked

Your group sees your daily status, all day, without asking. Peer pressure by design — that's the entire product.

  • Within limits — nothing to see here
  • Requested extension — waiting on the vote
  • Extension active — the group voted them more time
  • Limit reached — shielded for the day
Group Details for a group called Arrakis with three members, each showing a live status: Requested extension, Within limits, and Limit reached.

The rest of it

Squad of 2–5

One accountability group, your closest friends, and that's it. No public lobbies, no strangers, no leaderboard.

Democratic unlocks

You don't get a vote on your own request, so the count is always out of everyone else — and the bar rises once there are four of them to ask.

Approvals required to unlock an extension, by group size. The requester cannot vote, so the total is one less than the group.
Group sizeApprovals needed
2 people1 of 1
3 people1 of 2
4 people1 of 3
5 people2 of 4

Anything from 1 minute to 7 hours

Ask for exactly what you need. Asking for seven hours is allowed — explaining it to your group is your problem.

Real-time push

Requests, votes and resolutions land instantly over APNs, with live-updating group state so nobody's looking at a stale screen.

Group chat built in

Talk shit, coordinate, gloat when someone gets denied. The vote cards live right in the conversation.

Requests expire

A pending ask counts down in the chat and dies after six hours, or at midnight — whichever lands first. Silence is a no.

Daily reset at midnight

Clean slate every night, in your local time. No gaming the timezone to buy yourself a second evening.

History

Every request, vote and reason is logged. Come back next week and see exactly who folded.

Hand your friends the keys.

FR1ENDS is in beta. Tell us who you'd put in your group.