Free on iPhone · lowest wins
Your screen time just became a competition.
NIX Scoreboard is a free iPhone app that prices every minute of your screen time in tokens, posts your daily total to a board your friends can see, and ranks you. Lowest score wins.
The problem
4h 30mThe average American’s day on a phone. Every day.
Statista screen-time survey, 2025
Full days of your year, gone into the glass.
4.5 hours x 365, in 24-hour days
Pickups a day. Once every six waking minutes.
reviews.org phone-use study, 2023
Right now
−0 NXScreen-time tokens America has burned since you opened this page.
Rough live estimate: 260M adults x 4h 30m a day, priced at the app’s most forgiving rate
Nobody puts the phone down because a chart asked nicely.
So we made it a game.
A normal Tuesday
Nothing happened today. It still cost you.
Here’s how the game works: every minute of screen time costs tokens, called NX. Feeds cost the most per minute, tools cost almost nothing, and your day adds up whether you watch it or not.
Running total
−382NXAnd that was a good day.Nobody around you is counting. NIX counts.
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Home
One number follows you all day.
Every minute charges it up at that category’s rate. Home shows the damage on its own, no logging, no honor system.
Scoreboard
Your friends see it too. That’s the point.
Groups keep one board, ranked lowest first. Put a reward on the week if you want it to sting properly.
3:47 PM
Devin just found an hour of reels.
That’s 180 NX, and it dropped him below you while your phone sat in your pocket. Standing still is a strategy here.
Friends
You get to see exactly how they lost.
Every friend’s category breakdown is on the board. So is yours. Play accordingly.
Why it works
Willpower is unreliable. Being watched works.
Screen-time apps built on private self-discipline get deleted in week two. A number your best friend checks does not. You will put the phone down for the same reason you show up to the gym when someone is waiting: somebody knows.
What leaves your phone: minutes per category and the score they add up to. Not which apps, not what you did in them, not anything on your screen. Apple walls that off, and we would not want it anyway. Full detail in the Privacy Policy.
The first board
Eight people. One board. The scores collapsed.
The first board has been racing since day one. Nobody set app limits. Nobody got a lecture. Nobody wanted last place. Daily screen time, before the board and after:
The minutes that survived moved, too. Scoreboard charges social hardest, so Instagram fell from one to two hours a day to 25 minutes at most, across the whole group. YouTube settled around a 15 minute average, reels and shorts mostly gone. What came back: Duolingo streaks, time in a brokerage account, learning with Claude, and a lot more time on the home screen deciding a tap is not worth the tokens.
“This app really works. It makes me want to pick up a book, unfortunately.”
“I just really want to doomscroll but know I can’t.”
“Better than screen time limits. I just don’t want to lose, and that keeps me under my limit instead of maxing it like normal.”
“I left my phone in my car so I didn’t pick it up and rack up more points.”
Where these numbers come from: eight users, their first weeks on one board, measured by the app’s own auto-tracking. A small group, not a lab study. It is also every user we had, not a highlight reel.
Find out where you’d rank.
Most people are surprised, and not in a good way. The app is out and free.
Free on the App Store · iPhone, iOS 16.4+ · No ads, nothing to buy