Keep the apps.
Lose the autopilot.
Linger is a calm counter that floats over the apps that pull you in, and gently nudges you back toward what you said mattered. It is the opposite of a blocker. You stay in charge.
Built for the feeds that never end.
You choose which apps Linger watches. Most people start with these.
Average minutes per user per day, Android, worldwide excluding China, November 2024. Source: DataReportal, Digital 2025 Global Overview Report (data.ai), monthly hours converted to daily minutes.
App names and logos belong to their owners. Linger is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Doomscrolling is a friction problem.
Thirty seconds in, twenty minutes out. That is design, not weakness.
The pull isn't the screen. It's what the screen lets you skip: boredom, loneliness, a quiet minute. Take the app away and the feeling stays, which is why blockers get uninstalled. Linger works on the moment instead.
Get uninstalled the same week.
Force-quitting an app you chose to keep creates rebellion, not change.
Nobody opens them.
A weekly report tells you what already happened. The moment is gone.
In the moment, gently.
The bubble keeps track of the time you spend and shows it to you, live, so you can act on it while it still counts. You stay in charge.
Present, not policing.
Three quiet moves. They turn on their own, or tap one.
Everything stays your call.
Gentle tools, plain words. No alarms, no shame, no streaks to keep. Everything about your time stays your call.
The floating counter
Three states, disc to pill to full card. Cumulative for the day, so closing and reopening never resets the truth.
A breath, when you need one
Two slow breaths on a ring in the logo's cobalt. About twenty seconds to come back to yourself.
Redirects you wrote
Add the things you'd rather be doing, from our ideas or in your own words. "Five minutes with the guitar." Your words, your moment.
Pause, never block
Per-app, global, or just for today. Opt out without uninstalling. You can always dismiss an intervention.
Tune what the bubble counts
Set when the counter turns warm and urgent, and whether it shows time today or time saved. Plain language, no menus to decode.
Built for the apps that pull hardest, and only those.
Linger is not a productivity tracker and it does not care how you organise your folders. Its scope is the doom-prone apps you name, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, the games, and nothing else.
Your data never leaves your device.
The whole thing runs on-device with no backend. We measure nothing about you unless you explicitly choose to help.
No account, ever
There is nothing to sign up for. Linger is a single-user app that lives entirely on your phone.
Help the research, if you want to
Nobody has a clear picture of what actually gets a person off autopilot. Turn one switch on and you help build one, in anonymous signals about how the app is used. Never the words you write, never your screen. It is off until you say so.
You pay once, so you are not the product
$9.99 at launch, one time. No ads to sell, no profile to build, nothing about you that is worth more to us than the app itself.
Pay once. Keep it forever.
No subscription. We are not here to drain your wallet, that would rather defeat the point. On Android today, iPhone soon.
Launch price, one time. Google Play shows the final price in your currency.
- Three-day free trial, no card to start
- One-time unlock, yours forever
- Every feature included, no tiers
Purchase and refunds go through Google Play. Play's refund policy
Linger is coming to iOS.
Leave a phone number or an email and we will tell you the moment it is ready.
Keep the apps.
Lose the autopilot.
The goal was never zero screen time. It's using the phone instead of disappearing into it.
Bring intention back to the apps you actually want in your life. Quietly, and on your terms.