See Your Screen Time While You Scroll
Sandflow shows a real-time timer when you open distracting apps, so you can catch unconscious scrolling before it turns into another lost hour. Built for iPhone and iPad with Dynamic Island, Live Activities, widgets, and private iCloud sync.
Most Screen Time Apps Report Too Late
Apple Screen Time is useful, but reports usually arrive after the session is over. Sandflow makes app usage visible while you are still inside TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, games, shopping apps, or any app you choose to track.
That small moment of awareness is the point: you see the timer, notice the pattern, and choose whether to keep going.
How Sandflow Tracks App Usage In Real Time
Sandflow uses Apple Shortcuts automations because iOS does not let apps silently watch every app you open. You stay in control of what gets tracked.
Choose apps
Pick the social, streaming, shopping, or game apps that usually pull you into automatic use.
Set automation
Create a simple Shortcut automation that starts and stops Sandflow when those apps open and close.
See the timer
Watch your current session in Dynamic Island, Live Activities, widgets, and inside Sandflow.
Review patterns
Check daily totals, all-time usage, app opens, session length, and leaderboards.
Built For Conscious Phone Use
Sandflow is for people who do not want to block their whole phone, but do want a visible cue when an app session starts running away from them.
Social Media Addiction
Notice how long you have been scrolling TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and the feeds that quietly steal your attention.
Streaming Apps Addiction
Keep YouTube, Netflix, Twitch, and other video sessions visible while you are still able to stop.
Gaming Addiction
Track mobile games in real time and turn short breaks back into short breaks.
Benefits
Turn Less Screen Time Into A Friendly Challenge
With Game Center leaderboards, you can compare app usage with friends, family, or the rest of the world.
For once, the lowest time wins.
Awareness At The Moment It Matters
Weekly charts can help you reflect. A live timer helps you interrupt the pattern while it is happening.
Reduce Doomscrolling Without Punishing Yourself
Sandflow is not about guilt or extreme blocking. It gives you a visible cue, clear usage patterns, and a better chance to choose something more intentional.
Simple. Private. Made For iPhone.
Track the apps you choose, customize the way timers look, and keep your data away from ad networks.
- Real-time awareness
See a live timer while you use distracting apps, instead of waiting for a weekly report after the habit already won.
- Private & Secure
No account, no ads, and no data selling. Your usage history stays on your device and in your private iCloud.
- Built for Apple devices
Use Dynamic Island, Live Activities, widgets, Shortcuts automations, iCloud sync, and Game Center leaderboards.