How it works

Every minute has a price.

NIX Scoreboard turns your screen time into a score your friends can see. Lowest score wins.

NX tokens

Some minutes cost more.

Every minute on your phone costs tokens, called NX. The rate depends on the category.

Social 3 NX/minGames 2.5 NX/minEntertainment 2 NX/minNeutral 1 NX/minProductivity 0.25 NX/min

You sort your apps into these five categories once, at setup. See the setup guide

An example day

An hour of work costs less than ten minutes of social.

Productivity60 min15 NX
Social10 min30 NX
Entertainment45 min90 NX
Total135 NX

An example day, priced at the app's real rates.

The board

Lowest score wins.

Your score sits on a board with your friends, ranked lowest first. On Day, that's today's total.

Week and longer

Over a week, it's your daily average.

On Week and longer, boards rank by your average over the days you logged. A row with missing days says how many it has, like 5 of 7 days.

Example All friends board on Week with sample players, ranked by NX a day, one row showing 5 of 7 days.
An example board. Sample players, not real results.

Head to head

Tap a friend. See who's ahead.

On Week, the drawer puts your days won against theirs in the middle, then draws the week day by day, theirs against yours. Lower NX takes the day; today counts once it's over.

Example head-to-head drawer with sample players: 4 days to 2, each day's NX on a line, today marked so far.
An example drawer. Sample players, not real results.

Favorites

Star your rivals.

Hold a friend on the All friends board to make them a favorite, up to 5. Home shows your record against each one this week, and they're never told.

Focus

Bad day? Block every app.

Every app is blocked except Phone, Messages, FaceTime, Maps and your Always Allowed list.

1 NXOff per focused minute
20%Of that again if you finish
5 to 120Minutes

On the example day above, a 45 minute session takes 45 NX off, plus 9 more at the finish. End early and you keep the minutes, not the bonus. Focus can take a day down to zero, never below.

Friends see your Focus minutes. More Focus doesn't win days on its own: it counts by taking your score down.

Phones down

One code. Everyone's phone goes down.

One phone hosts and shows a code and a QR. Everyone who joins has their apps blocked until the same end time.

If everyone finishes, everyone gets a group bonus. Pick up early and that session earns you nothing. 2 to 20 phones.

What friends see

Your score. Not your apps.

Friends see your score and how it splits by category; never which apps, never what you did in them, never anything on your screen.

Full detail in the Privacy Policy.

More: Groups · The research behind Scoreboard

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