Features
Everything Unglue does,
and why it works.
You earn your screen time by doing something real first. Here’s how that actually plays out, feature by feature.
Photo verification
Snap a photo when you finish a task. Unglue uses vision AI to confirm you actually did the thing, not just tapped a button.
App blocking
The apps you keep losing hours to stay blocked by default. They don’t open until you’ve earned them.
Focus timer
Sit down with a real task. The timer earns you screen time as you focus, so the work itself unlocks the rest of your day.
Step gating
Set a step target. Your apps stay closed until you’ve actually moved, so getting up is the simplest way back in.
Screen time insights
See where your time actually goes, hour by hour and app by app. No judgement, just the numbers you can act on.
Home Screen widget
Your earned-time balance lives on your Home Screen, with quick unlocks for the apps you’ve already paid for.
Photo verification, because tapping a button isn’t doing the thing
Other habit apps trust you on the honor system. You tick a box, the streak goes up, nothing actually changed in your life. We’ve all done it. It feels gross after.
Unglue asks for a photo. Drank a glass of water? Show us. Cleaned your desk? Show us. Made your bed? Show us. Vision AI checks the photo against the task, so the verification is doing real work, not just collecting your photo.
The point isn’t surveillance. It’s closing the loop between “I said I would” and “I actually did.” That loop is where habits get built.
The focus timer earns screen time while you do real work
Sometimes the thing you’re avoiding isn’t a chore, it’s a problem set. Or a draft. Or the email you’ve been rewriting in your head for three days. Photos don’t really work for those.
Start a focus session instead. The timer runs, your distracting apps stay closed, and every minute you actually focus turns into screen time you’ve earned for later. The work pays you in the currency you were going to spend anyway.
Twenty-five minutes of real focus is worth more than an hour of half-trying. The timer is on your side.
And a small jelly, rooting for you
Every Unglue user gets a jelly. You pick its color. It hangs out in the app and on your widget, and it gets a little happier every time you take care of yourself.
It’s not a productivity tool. It’s a tiny creature in your corner that makes putting your phone down feel less like a chore and more like a choice. Users send us screenshots of theirs. They name them. They get attached.
“I love my jelly :)” — App Store review
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