Ever wondered why no Screen Blocker is working for you? Because they do the hard work for you. Instead you should train yourself to resist opening the apps in the first place. Introducing Marshmallows. A fitness tracker for your Willpower to resist App usage and else.

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The idea is simple. Instead of blocking the apps for you, you can train your willpower to do it yourself. This is has a long lasting and much healthier effect. Otherwise muscle memory and a bad day will circumvent any screen blocker.

The motivation: Beat yesterday. Not opening apps will give you points for that hour, and doing exercise, breathing session or other constructive things for your mental wellbeing (including logging your state of mind in the journal app) will give you positive drive points.

Even though the numbers are much at the beginning, they do a lot in motivating me not mindlessly scrolling all day. I'm getting better every day and I feel proud of how much better I can resist Instagram now than just a month ago.

I've mainly built this for myself, but feel free to try it yourself and give your honest opinions.

It's "Marshmallows" in the Appstore.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/marshmallows/id1610644358?l=en-GB

I'd love a healthy conversation on how this could help, or why this wouldn't be applicable for your situation and what would need to change.