How much of your life will you scroll away?
The average person feeds their phone over two hours a day. Feels like nothing. Adds up to years. Calculate your number, then see what happens when scroll time stops being free.
The calculator
Your scroll-life cost
Two numbers. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is tracked or sent anywhere.
of your remaining waking life spent scrolling (by age 80)
The idea
Earn your scroll: focus is the currency
Blockers fail because restriction feels like punishment, and you hold the keys to your own jail. Focus apps fail on the other side: they reward deep work with a cartoon tree while the feed sits one thumb away, still free.
Earn your scroll connects the two. Focused work fills a wallet of scroll minutes. Your feed apps stay locked while the wallet is empty. Spending drains it in real time. No credit, no overdraft, no negotiating with yourself at 11pm.
You are not quitting scrolling. You are paying for it honestly, and that changes everything about how much of it you actually want.
Coming to iPhone
Doomlock: the app that runs the deal
In development now, built in public by an indie developer.
Focus fills the wallet
Run focus sessions for study or work. Every completed session earns scroll minutes at an exchange rate you set once: strict, balanced, or gentle.
Empty wallet, locked feeds
The apps you pick stay locked whenever your balance is zero. No willpower involved. The lock is just math.
Spend it guilt-free
Earned minutes are yours. Scroll without the shame spiral, watch the balance drain, and see your weekly focus-to-scroll ratio become something worth sharing.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is doomscrolling?
Doomscrolling is compulsively scrolling feeds long past the point of enjoyment or usefulness. Endless-feed apps are engineered to keep you swiping, and the average person now spends over two hours a day inside them, which adds up to years of waking life.
What is an earn your scroll app?
An earn your scroll app flips screen time into a currency. Instead of blocking feeds outright, it locks them until you earn minutes through something valuable, like focused work sessions. You are not quitting scrolling; you are paying for it honestly.
How do I stop doomscrolling?
Willpower and cold-turkey blockers fail for most people because restriction feels like punishment. What works better is changing the price of scrolling: add friction, set a hard budget, and tie scroll time to something you must do first, such as a completed focus session. Use the calculator to see what your current habit costs.
What is Doomlock?
Doomlock is an upcoming iPhone app built on the earn your scroll idea: focus sessions fill a scroll wallet, your chosen feed apps stay locked while the wallet is empty, and spending drains it in real time. Deep work becomes the currency for scroll time. Follow the build to catch the launch.
Know your number. Then make scrolling earn its keep.
Calculate your scroll-life cost above, share it, and follow the build as Doomlock goes from prototype to the App Store.