Android · by Adiram

Screen-time limits you actually keep.

Setting a limit is easy. Keeping it is the hard part — because the person who can undo it is you, at exactly the moment you least want to be stopped. Sworn hands that decision to someone else.

See how it works What we collect

Coming soon to Google Play

Inside the app

Four screens, and that is most of it.

No dashboard to learn, no settings maze. You set a limit, you see where the time went, and the rest happens in the background. Daily, weekly and monthly reports are built on your phone rather than on a server, alongside streaks for the days you kept to it.

The home screen: a ring showing 15 minutes used of a 30 minute daily YouTube limit, with a streak counter below. — Today, at a glance

Setting a goal: choosing YouTube, a 30 minute daily limit, and a commitment window during which raising it needs partner approval. — Set a limit you mean

Inviting a partner to hold you accountable, above the list of today's goals and progress against each limit. — Invite someone you trust

History: today's screen time broken down app by app, sorted by most used, with a percentage against each. — See where the time went

How it works

Four steps, then it stays out of your way.

Pick the apps that take your timeSworn reads per-app screen time from Android's own usage statistics — the same source Digital Wellbeing uses — so you're choosing from evidence rather than a hunch.
Set a daily limit you meanYour limit, your call: Sworn never sets one for you and never suggests a number. Cross it and the app stops opening — not a nudge, not a notification you can swipe away.
Invite someone you trustA friend, a partner, a peer. They hold the key to changes — not your device, and not an administrator.
Ask, when you need toHit your limit and want more? Send a request. They see what you're asking for and approve or deny it from a notification.

Built to be trusted

What Sworn will never do.

An app that watches your phone use has to earn the permission it asks for. These aren't aspirations — they're how it's built, and they're written into our privacy policy.

Never reads your screen. Sworn deliberately does not use Android's Accessibility APIs. It cannot see messages, keystrokes, or page content.
Never sells your data. No ads, no ad networks, no data brokers, no advertising identifier.
Never a parental-control app. Sworn only ever applies to the account that set it up. It can't be installed on someone else's phone to watch them.
Never keeps what it doesn't need. Synced usage history deletes itself after about a month, and deleting your account removes your data.
Never locks you in. Use it as a plain usage monitor with no account at all. Delete your account from Settings whenever you like.
Never pretends to be unbreakable. Sworn detects when protection is switched off and tells your partner. It doesn't seize control of your device.