Compete with friends to reclaim your attention.

The PCL exists to help you spend less time on your phone. The app is simple: create or join a private group, invite friends to do the same, log your average phone screen time once a week, then see how you stack up on the leaderboard over a season. There's also a bunch of other stats and charts for all you data nerds out there!

We think you'll get the most out of the PCL by competing with people you know (especially IRL). Nominate a group leader to communicate regularily about progress, highlight championship-level performances, and nudge people to enter their time. Encourage each other throughout the season, and consider an in-person gathering at the end to celebrate with each other! Maybe that includes a trophy ceremony, too!?

The person who creates a group — the group "owner" — can define a range of time within which a particular competition runs. If no season is defined for a group, the system defaults to displaying results for "All Time", i.e. across all logged entries in the group.

Rankings are based on your season average screen time, and just like in golf, lower is better. The leaderboard shows each member's average for the current season, so steady improvement matters more than one great week.

Log once per week, on Sunday: enter your average daily phone screen time for the past seven days (Sunday - Saturday).

Use the daily average (for the prior week) from your phone's built-in screen time report (Screen Time on iPhone, Digital Wellbeing on Android). Enter the number in hours and minutes.

We looked into that! But we decided to stick with just a website + manual entry for three reasons: 1) Privacy and security, 2) Technical limitations, and 3) Simplicity. Both Apple and Google rightly treat screen time as sensitive data and do not provide sanctioned APIs to ship that data off-device.

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Other than using it to provide this service to you, nothing. We don't sell it, use ad networks, or track you. Our web analytics are privacy-first, and our sole purpose is to provide a fun way to work toward reducing your screen time, being more present with people you love, and reclaiming your attention from companies that want to consume it.