Motion detection
In a monitored session your phone watches for movement. Pick it up and you take a strike, and no button that makes that go away.
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Your apps stay blocked. Earn them back, a minute at a time.
One minute of focus buys one minute of screen time. Which means the evening on Instagram is paid for with the file you finally opened, the chapter you kept postponing, the call you never had time to make. Nothing else fills that balance: not a subscription, not a purchase, not good intentions.
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See how the loop worksKimro is still in development. There is nothing to download yet. This page is here so you know what is coming.
Those hours were never billed to you. You paid for them with something else.
Kimro does not promise to bring any number down. It changes who decides at the moment an app opens.
Focus Card
0credits
= 0m of screen time
Kimro Wallet
This is your Focus Card. Balance: 0 credits.
Nothing fills it for you. Not a subscription, not a purchase, not a good intention. Keep scrolling, we will show you how.
The loop
Four steps. Then the same four again.
01
Pick what to block
The ones that take your evenings and give nothing back. Kimro keeps them blocked by default: not on a schedule you set once and forget, not until you tap “ignore”.
Focus Card0credits
= 0m of screen time
Kimro Wallet
02
Focus to earn
The file, the chapter, the call you never have time to make: whatever you have been postponing for three days. Put the phone down and start the session, and every completed minute credits your card.
Focus Card12credits
= 12m of screen time
Kimro Wallet
03
Withdraw your time
Twenty minutes of scrolling are twenty minutes you earned first. No guilt left in it: it is paid for.
Focus Card30credits
= 30m of screen time
Kimro Wallet
04
The window closes
No reminder, no negotiation, no “five more minutes”. The block returns, and the next hour is yours again.
Focus Card0credits
= 0m of screen time
Kimro Wallet
The rate
One minute earned. One minute spent.
No points, no gems, no rate to look up. An hour of work is worth an hour of screen time. It is expensive, and that is the point: you find out fast what you were willing to pay for a scroll, and what you were not.
You move forward
1 minute
You earn
1 credit
It unlocks
1 minute
1:1
Other apps in this category are open about charging a margin: ten minutes of focus for five minutes of app time. Kimro does not take a cut. What you earn is exactly what you can spend.
Credits are earned, never bought. There is no in-app purchase that adds minutes to your balance, and credits have no cash value of any kind.
Enforcement
Most blockers ask you to be honest. Kimro asks your phone.
AR lock box
Scan the room and place your phone inside a virtual lock box to start. This mode is experimental: results depend on your device and your surroundings.
Failing costs the session
Credits are banked when a session completes, not while it runs. Reach your strike limit and the session is forfeit. Three strikes by default, and you can set it to one or to five.
The stake is the whole point. A timer you can dismiss is just a timer.
The collection
17 cards. One in your pocket.
Four families: Basic, Lock-In, Stripes, Wood. This is the object you will look at several times a day, at the exact moment you decide whether an app opens.
None of them can be bought. They unlock in hours of focus.
The question we get first
“My iPhone already does this, doesn’t it?” It does. Right up to the button that lets you through.
When the limit hits
- Screen Time (Apple)
- A button offers to ignore it.
- Kimro
- Nothing can be ignored. You need a balance.
What reopening costs
- Screen Time (Apple)
- One tap.
- Kimro
- Minutes you earned.
What stops you working around it
- Screen Time (Apple)
- A passcode you chose yourself.
- Kimro
- A monitored session: the phone has to stay down.
What you are left with
- Screen Time (Apple)
- A weekly chart.
- Kimro
- A balance, a history, a card.
What Apple does better
- Screen Time (Apple)
- It is free, it is already there, and it covers the whole device, children included.
- Kimro
- Kimro is one more app, on iPhone only, and it does not replace parental controls.
Apple, iPhone and Screen Time are trademarks of Apple Inc. Kimro is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Apple Inc.
Privacy
We never see what you block.
Kimro uses Apple’s Screen Time API. We never see which apps you block or how you use them. Everything stays on your device.
That is not a promise we are asking you to take on faith. It is a property of how the app is built.
- The API hands us tokens, not names
- Apple hands the app an encrypted token, not a name. Your iPhone resolves the name and the icon locally, on the device itself, and the string never reaches us, so there is nothing to send even if we wanted to.
- Your block list never leaves the phone
- It lives in the app’s local container on your device. It is not uploaded, not synced to us, not shared with anyone.
- No advertising, no third-party SDKs
- The blocking extensions make no network requests and link no third-party code. Kimro is paid for by an optional subscription, not by your attention.
- This site has no trackers
- No analytics, no advertising pixels, nothing loaded from a third-party domain, and the only cookie remembers the language you chose. If that ever changes, you will be asked first.
Before you install
The questions people actually ask
What stops me from deleting Kimro and reopening everything?
Nothing. No iPhone app can prevent its own deletion, and the ones that claim otherwise are telling stories. What Kimro makes expensive is the ordinary gesture: opening Instagram at 11pm without thinking. Deleting it is still possible, but it has become a decision rather than a reflex.
How is this different from the iPhone’s own Screen Time?
Screen Time offers to ignore the limit at the exact moment you do not feel like respecting it. Kimro offers nothing: you need a balance, and the balance has to be earned.
Can I buy credits?
No, and that is the rule that makes everything else credible. No in-app purchase adds a single minute to your balance.
What if I genuinely need an app right now?
You withdraw minutes, if you have them. If your balance is empty, the app stays blocked. Calls, messages and emergency numbers never go through Kimro: it only touches the apps you picked.
How do I block TikTok or Instagram with Kimro?
You pick them in the app’s block list, and they stay blocked by default until you withdraw minutes. Kimro can also block a whole category rather than a single app.
Does Kimro see which apps I block?
No. Apple’s Screen Time API hands the app opaque tokens rather than app identities: your iPhone resolves the name and icon locally, on your device. Your block list stays in the app’s local container and is never uploaded.
Is there an Android version?
No. Kimro is built on Apple’s Screen Time API, which does not exist on Android. An Android version would not be a port, it would be a different application.
How much does it cost?
The price will be shown here and on the App Store listing before launch, not discovered after the download. Kimro is not published yet, so there is nothing to pay for today.
Kimro is coming to iPhone.
The App Store listing is not live yet. This link will start working the day it is.
Coming soon to the App Store