About Champ

Why Champ exists

Because the weekly screen-time report never once changed what I did on a Tuesday night. It told me a number about a week that had already happened, and the only feeling it produced was a small private shame that made me want to stop opening the report.

The moment that actually matters is about two seconds long: the reach. Champ lives in that gap. It puts a shield in front of the apps you pick, offers thirty seconds of something else, and then lets you through either way — because a blocker you can't get past is a blocker you delete.

And it counts what you chose rather than what you failed to avoid. That is the garden.

What we won't do

• Inflate the numbers. Champ has 5.0 stars from 15 App Store ratings. That is a small number. An earlier version of this site claimed 50,000+ downloads, a 4.8 rating from 2,500 reviews, and six testimonials from people who do not exist. All of it is gone, and none of it should have been written.
• Cite research that doesn't exist. Every statistic on this site links to a primary source. Widely repeated figures with no traceable study behind them do not get used, however good they sound.
• Upload your usage data. Apple's Screen Time framework keeps app-usage data on the device, and Champ works inside that boundary. There is nothing to upload and nowhere for it to go.
• Pretend to be a health service. Champ is a habit tool. If you are struggling with something heavier than a scrolling habit, please talk to an actual professional.