Zario: Screen Time & Focus AI

This app helped me reduce my screen time, but I was getting tired of their “facts” on the screen that made jokes about people enjoying gang r*pe, racist jokes about Chinese accents that sound like sex, jokes about domestic violence and killing exes with a bus, and honestly, a lot more. I reached out to their customer service line which apparently goes right to the ceo, and was apologetic and said they’d do an update, but that was a while ago and I got hit with the gang r*pe promote multiple times in a row. As a victim of relationship abuse myself, this doesn’t make me want to use this app that’s supposed to support my habits while using my experiences as jokes to get me to break that habit. Seems a bit counter productive and… tone deaf to the people they’re supposed to support.

Got the pro version and it is great to see the vast amount of options it has compared to the standard offerings from Apple. I also love the “strict mode” having the user pay to get into apps. Like most people I have had some times in my life that I would do anything just to have my phone be a phone and to have this functionality to completely block everything out and hit the user with a pay wall is perfect for me. Already feeling more productive every day with Zario! Thank you Zario Team - David K

I am blown away with how simple and effective this app is. Easy to use timers set in predetermined intervals makes it easy to take brief chunks of time in the apps you want to reduce wasting time on, but also doesn’t make it burdensome to use them. Total time is also easily tracked. And the app just works. My only complaint is the expensive lifetime subscription. However, I can’t fault the developer as they have made a quality product.