Awareen

Platform

Android 8.0+

Built with

Kotlin, Android Views

Privacy

No internet permission

Users

350+, all organic

Awareen (awareness plus screen) does not block anything. It puts a small timer over every app that shows how long you have been on your phone today, and trusts you with the number. Seeing it is usually enough.

How it works

The timer moves through three stages as the day goes on. Each stage has its own name, colours, position, size and optional blinking, and every setting applies the moment you change it, with a live preview on screen.

• Shown your way. Always on, for a few seconds every minute, or never, with a home screen widget instead.
• Out of the way. Tap the timer to hide it for five seconds; drag it and it stays where you put it.
• Your day. Analytics splits 24 hours into sleep, work, free time and screen time, next to your daily average, trend and a lifetime projection.
• A reset you can trust. The day resets at the time you choose, even while the phone is asleep.
• Yours to keep. Settings and history export to JSON and move to a new phone. No account, no ads, and no internet permission, so your screen time cannot leave the device.

Architecture

Plain Kotlin and Android Views, one preferences file, no database and no DI framework. ui talks to service, service talks to data, and overlay is shared by both. Overlay decisions, analytics keys and reset maths live in a pure domain package so they can be tested without a device. The artwork, from the launcher icon to the Play listing, is generated by a single script so it stays consistent across releases.

Distribution

Awareen started as a sideloaded APK and now has more than 350 users on Google Play, all of them organic.