Come About

Your phone,
back on your side.

Come About notices the moment useful time turns into scrolling, inside the apps you pick, and steps in. Everything happens on your phone.

Coming soon to Google PlaySee how it works
Seven days of everything, free. iPhone is on the way.
The Today screen: 65% useful screen time, shown as coloured shapes
The Apps screen: for each app, what counts as useful and what counts as drift
How it works

Same app,
two kinds of time.

Looking something up is not the same as an hour of Shorts. Come About tells them apart inside the app, so you keep the useful part and lose the rest.

A search, and the videos that answer ituseful
Messages and stories from friendsuseful
Shorts, Reels, the endless feeddrift
Whatever autoplay picked nextdrift

You decide what counts. Tap any of them to switch it, or add your own, like “cooking videos”.

Three levels

Choose how firm it is.

After a few minutes of drifting, Come About steps in. How hard is up to you, app by app.

Nudge

A short line at the top of the screen and one button to leave. Ignore it and it goes away.

PausePro

The screen takes a breath and asks what you came for. Stay if you meant to, leave if you didn’t.

EjectPro

Ten seconds, then the app closes. For the apps and the hours where you want no argument.

The moment itself

Breathe.
What did you come for?

No streaks, no guilt, no lock you have to fight. One honest question at the right moment, and the time you get back is counted for you.

The Pause screen: Breathe. What did you come for?
Private by construction

Nothing leaves your phone.

To tell useful from drift, Come About has to see the screen in the apps you picked. So it was built with no way to send anything anywhere.

  • No internet permissionThe app cannot open a network connection. Android enforces that, not a promise.
  • Nothing is savedScreens are read and dropped. Only totals are kept: minutes useful, minutes drifting.
  • No accountNo sign-up, no email, no ads, no analytics. Erase your history whenever you like.
Price

Seven days of everything.
Then you choose.

Free

Nudge, in every app you pick, with your full history. Free for good.

Pro

Adds Pause, Eject and night rules. Monthly or yearly through Google Play, cancel any time.

Take the evening back.

Coming soon to Google Play