Gentle paces the apps that pull you in — sessions and rest, on repeat. Your apps still open. You just meet them at a calmer pace. Not a limit. A rhythm.
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A session opens your paced apps for a while. Then a short rest closes them — just long enough to break the pull. Then you're back. Over and over, gently, all day.
Gentle watches the apps you choose — never anything else on your phone, and never what's inside them. The timer runs while you're in a paced app. Leave it, and it quietly pauses.
When a session ends, your paced apps take a brief break and open again on their own — no streaks to lose, no walls to argue with. The pause is just long enough to interrupt the scroll, never long enough to feel like punishment.
Pair your kids' phones, set a gentle pace for each child, and see how the day is going — all from your own phone. It helps the family find a rhythm together, and skips the nightly fight over the screen.
Tell Gentle which apps tend to pull you in. Everything else on your phone carries on untouched.
A small, deliberate moment before you dive in — so screen time is something you decide, not something that just happens.
Use your apps, take a short rest, and they open again on their own. The rhythm carries you through the day.
Gentle only ever sees the apps you choose to pace — never what's inside them, never your messages, never your browsing. It paces; it doesn't surveil.
The pacing happens on your phone, using Apple's Screen Time framework. Your activity isn't sent anywhere.
Gentle knows an app is open. It never sees, stores, or reads a single thing you do inside it.
Use Gentle on your own without signing up. Sign in only when you set up a family.
Download Gentle, choose a few apps, and find your rhythm today.