Champ catches the reach. Open an app you're trying to use less and you get thirty seconds before you decide: one breath, one line, one look at what you're actually working toward. Every reset you take grows your garden.
Open a guarded app→, then30-second reset→, thena flower opens
5.0 from 15 App Store ratings
Free on iPhone and iPad
Shield any apps you choose
Per-app usage stays on your phone
The Champ garden, day 20 of 21
Pink flower: one finished reset ×1Golden sunflower: a day with two resets ×2
A screen recording of the Champ garden on an iPhone: day 20 of a 21-day challenge, an orange tree with white blossoms, pink and golden flowers from finished resets, and the guardians below. Petals drift across the sky.
The loop
The problem isn't willpower. It's that the decision never happens.
Nobody chooses to lose an evening. The phone is in your hand before the thought arrives. By the time you notice, you're four screens deep in something you weren't looking for.
4½ hours
UK adults spend this long online every day, up 10 minutes from last year
Working-age internet users, GWI fieldwork Q3 2024.
Just having it nearby measurably reduced available cognitive capacity, even when people didn’t pick the phone up. Two experiments found that participants with their phone face-down on the desk performed worse on attention tasks than participants whose phone was in another room. The effect was strongest in the people most attached to their phones.
Two experiments, n = 548 and n = 275 undergraduates.
Which is why a weekly screen-time report doesn't fix it. It arrives on Sunday, about a week you can no longer change, and the best score it can give you is zero. The intervention has to happen at the reach.
How it works
Catch the reach. Take thirty seconds. Watch it grow.
Champ is a gamified screen time app: the shield catches the open, the reset fills the gap, and the garden counts what you chose. The everyday shield always has a way through, and it tells you so during setup.
1Open an app you guard, and Champ’s shield catches the reach.
2Take a thirty-second reset instead of the feed.
3Finish it, and a flower opens in your garden.
In a hurry? Skip the reset for 10 Coins, which you earn from resets.
Step 01
Champ catches the reach
Pick the apps you want to use less. When you open one, iOS hands control to Champ and you get a shield instead of the feed.
Built on Apple’s Screen Time framework, the same system-level mechanism as Apple’s own Downtime. Free to shield any apps you choose.
Every reset you finish opens a flower in your garden, and a day with two resets opens a sunflower. Finish all of a day’s self-care cards and the tree grows a stage, across a 21-day challenge. Nothing ever withers.
Pink flower: one finished reset ×1Golden sunflower: a day with two resets ×2
From 15 ratings. That's a small number, and we're not going to dress it up. Check it yourself.
Your per-app usage stays on your phone
Apple’s Screen Time framework hands Champ opaque tokens rather than app names, and the list of apps you guard and your per-app usage never leave your device. Champ’s analytics receive only aggregate events, such as how many apps you guard and that a reset was completed, never an app name; the privacy policy (§4.9) lists every one.
Shields the apps you pick through Apple’s Screen Time API and offers a 30-second reset (a breath, an affirmation, a short meditation, or your vision board) before you decide whether to open them.
Game layer
Every reset you finish opens a flower in your garden, and a day with two resets opens a sunflower. Finish all of a day’s self-care cards and the tree grows a stage, across a 21-day challenge. Nothing ever withers. Six collectible Guardians, one per practice: you choose one in onboarding and unlock the rest with coins. Each reaches a new tier at 25, 100 and 300 held shields and is never demoted.
Strict mode
Champ’s everyday shield is a speed bump: after the 30-second reset, continuing is your decision. Strict routines (free, from the Morning, Focus and Wind Down templates) and Focus Now (Pro) go further: during the window the shield offers only Emergency access, though you can still end the session or turn the routine off inside Champ.
Platform
iPhone and iPad, iOS 18.0 or later. No Android or Mac app.
Price model
Free to download. Free: shield any apps you choose, the 30-second reset, the wake/sleep dial, and the Morning, Focus and Wind Down routine templates. On the screen-time side, Pro adds Focus Now, your own custom routines, and per-app limits and blocks. Pro also unlocks most of the library (five of the six breathing techniques, and most guided meditations, affirmation packs, and book lessons), plus Time Back’s month and year views. Every 30-second reset stays free, whichever practice it uses. Current Pro prices are on the App Store.
Rating
5.0 from 15 US ratings on the App Store (checked Oct 2, 2026).
Privacy
Apple’s Screen Time framework hands Champ opaque tokens rather than app names, and the list of apps you guard and your per-app usage never leave your device. Champ’s analytics receive only aggregate events, such as how many apps you guard and that a reset was completed, never an app name; the privacy policy (§4.9) lists every one.
Champ shields the apps you choose and interrupts the moment you open one, offering a 30-second reset before you continue. It works on the reach rather than the weekly total, because the decision to scroll is made in about two seconds and a Sunday report arrives far too late to affect it.
Is Champ free?
Yes, the core loop is free: shield any apps you choose, the 30-second reset, the wake/sleep dial, and the Morning, Focus and Wind Down routine templates. On the screen-time side, Pro adds Focus Now, your own custom routines, and per-app limits and blocks. Pro also unlocks most of the library (five of the six breathing techniques, and most guided meditations, affirmation packs, and book lessons), plus Time Back’s month and year views. Every 30-second reset stays free, whichever practice it uses.
Can I get past the block if I really need the app?
With the everyday shield, yes. Champ’s everyday shield is a speed bump: after the 30-second reset, continuing is your decision. Strict routines (free, from the Morning, Focus and Wind Down templates) and Focus Now (Pro) go further: during the window the shield offers only Emergency access, though you can still end the session or turn the routine off inside Champ. Blockers that cannot be bypassed get deleted within a week; ones that add a few seconds of friction get kept.
Does Champ see which apps I use?
No. Apple’s Screen Time framework hands Champ opaque tokens rather than app names, and the list of apps you guard and your per-app usage never leave your device. Champ’s analytics receive only aggregate events, such as how many apps you guard and that a reset was completed, never an app name; the privacy policy (§4.9) lists every one.
How is this different from iPhone Screen Time limits?
Apple’s limits are a scheduled cap that ends in a dismissible “Ignore Limit” button. Champ intercepts every open of a shielded app and offers something to do with the interruption (a breath, an affirmation, a short meditation, or your vision board), then rewards taking it.
What devices does Champ work on?
iPhone and iPad running iOS 18 or later. There is no Android version yet; you can join the waitlist and we will email you when there is.
How long does a mindful reset take?
About thirty seconds. That’s the design constraint, not a marketing round number. An intervention longer than the impulse it interrupts doesn’t get used.
Will Champ make me feel bad about my screen time?
That’s exactly what it avoids. There’s no shaming weekly report and no counter of minutes lost. Progress is measured by the resets you completed, so the number only ever goes up.
Try it on the next thing you reach for
Set it up in about a minute. It is free to shield any apps you choose, and every reset takes thirty seconds.
Champ is iPhone-only right now. The app depends on Apple's Screen Time framework, which has no direct Android equivalent. Leave your email and we'll write once, if that changes.
★ 5.0 stars from (15 ratings)Free on iPhone and iPad
