Attention Fund

Stay off your phone. Keep the cash.

Every other screen time app charges you a subscription. This one pays you back.

You put money on yourself and set a daily screen time limit. Every day you stay under it, you earn part of that money back. Attention Dividends.

Go over, and the apps you picked get blocked.

You can break through the block. It just costs you that day's share.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Pick the apps that actually take your time.

2. Pull your real numbers from Apple's own screen time report, so your target is built on what you actually do and not a guess.

3. Choose how much to cut and how long to run it. Seven days at 25 percent less is where most people start.

4. Put money on it. Five dollars is enough.

Stay under your limit and it comes back to you, day by day, until you have all of it.

THE BLOCK SCREEN IS THE WHOLE PRODUCT

When you hit your limit, your apps stop. What you see is not a generic timer.

It shows the exact amount you are about to lose today. It shows your current streak. And it shows the sentence you wrote when you signed up, about what you were going to do with the time instead.

Then two buttons. Put it down. Or forfeit and keep scrolling.

Nobody has to judge whether you followed through. Your phone already counted.

HITTING YOUR LIMIT IS NOT FAILING

The app says so. Cap reached, day still safe. Nothing is lost unless you choose to push through it, and you get warnings before you get anywhere near it.

TAKE THE TIME BACK

Every time you do something instead of scrolling, log it. Study, sleep, gym, whatever it was. It builds into a record you can look at.

At the end of a challenge you see the hours next to the money.

WHAT YOU GET TO LOOK AT

A ring on your home screen showing how much of today's limit is left. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, so it is there every time you pick up the phone. A day by day log with the dollar amount on every day. Your streak. A full recap when the challenge ends.

YOUR SCREEN TIME STAYS YOURS

Your per app breakdown opens in Apple's own on-device report. Those numbers never leave your phone and we never see them.

WHAT IT COSTS

Nothing, if you stay under every day. Meet your goal every day of a challenge and you get one hundred percent of your deposit back and pay us nothing. There is no subscription.

You can never get back more than you put in. Nobody else's money is on the table. Money you forfeit stays with Attention Fund. That is how the company makes money, and it is written into the rules in the app and at attentionfund.app/terms-and-rules.

THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE

Most people will not put money on themselves, and that is a completely reasonable thing to decide.

If reading this made you want to try it, it is probably for you.

BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD

Attention Fund needs an iPhone with Screen Time, and it uses Apple's Family Controls framework to block the apps you choose.

A deposit is required to start. Deposits are sent by Venmo or Zelle, outside the app, and confirmed by hand, so there is a short wait between paying and your dollar figures appearing. Enforcement starts immediately either way. No payment is processed inside the app.