ScrombieFresh me vs.
Scrombie.
Stop doomscrolling, save face.
Pick a face: one of eight characters, or your own selfie. Every minute on your doomscroll apps drains it, from Fresh to Tired, Drained, Hollow and finally Scrombie. Midnight brings it back.
Coming soon to the App Store
Free for iPhone. Scrombie Pro is optional.
Your screen time has a face now.
Pick who gets drained.
One of eight drawn characters, or a selfie. A selfie is processed on your phone and never uploaded.
Pick your doomscroll apps.
Choose them with Apple's Screen Time picker: social, video, games, streaming, whole categories or websites. Then set a daily budget (an hour, to start).
Watch it happen.
Every few minutes on those apps, the face drains a little more. Hit your budget and you're Hollow. Double it and you're a Scrombie. At midnight you're Fresh again.
Fresh to Scrombie in five stages.
The color goes first, then the eyes, then the whole face hollows out. No gore, no aging, nothing about your body: just a face running out of life. Try it with any of the eight. In the app it runs on your real minutes, or on your selfie.
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Vitality
45m on doomscroll apps · budget 1h
You're fading. The color's almost gone.
Pick who gets drained
Or use a selfie. Scrombie drains your own face, on your phone.
The stages, on a one-hour budget
Hollow starts exactly at your budget: that's the day you blew it. A day only counts toward your streak if it never went Hollow.
Your home screen calls you out.
Put your face on your home screen and every unlock shows what's left of you. The widget doesn't nag. It just looks tired.
Small and medium widgets for the home screen, a ring for the Lock Screen. Free, like the face itself.
Post the damage.
One tap makes a story-sized card: Fresh you beside today's you, the vitality left, and today's total in your own words. Share it, or save it and post it wherever you post.
Every Sunday there's a Scrombie Week card: the week's total, days survived, your worst stage and your streak.
Cards never list which apps you used. A card is made on your phone and goes only where you send it. Daily and weekly cards are free and carry the date.
It's your face. It stays yours.
- Your face stays on your phone.
- A selfie is processed on the phone with Apple's own frameworks and stored in the app. It's never uploaded to us: Scrombie has no servers and no accounts.
- Scrombie never learns which apps.
- Screen Time access goes through Apple's Family Controls, for your own phone only. Apple tells Scrombie when today's total passes a mark, not what you were using.
- No ads. No tracking.
- No ad networks and no analytics. Your usage is never used for advertising, sold or shared.
- Cards leave when you send them.
- Nothing is shared until you tap Share or Save, and only the card you previewed.
The only outside service is RevenueCat, which checks whether you have Pro. It never sees your photo or your usage. Details in the privacy policy.
When the face isn't enough.
Scrombie is a mirror first. If you want it to actually stop you, Scrombie Pro gives it teeth.
Scrombie Pro
- Lockdown: once you hit the stage you pick (Hollow at your budget, or Scrombie at double), your doomscroll apps are shielded until midnight, with your own Scrombie face on the block screen.
- 30 days of history instead of seven.
- Streak insurance: one blown day a month is forgiven.
- Daily cards without the date stamp.
Yearly1-week free trial
$24.99 / year
Monthly
$3.99 / month
US prices. Auto-renews until canceled; cancel any time in your App Store account settings. The free trial is for new subscribers on the yearly plan.
Free, for good
- Your face, all five stages, and the preview.
- Unlimited doomscroll apps and a daily budget.
- Today's view, streak and seven days of history.
- Daily, before/after and Scrombie Week cards.
- Home-screen and Lock Screen widgets.
- Stage alerts: one per stage change, never naming an app.
Coming soon to the App Store
Face look off? Tell us.
We keep tuning how fast faces drain and how each stage looks. If your selfie drains strangely, a stage comes too early or too late, or one of the characters doesn't look like it should, email us: admin@loriccoandco.com
Everything stays on your phone, so an email is the only way we hear about it. A description is plenty; you don't need to send your photo.
Questions
Anything else is on the support page.
Does it block apps?
Not unless you ask it to. Scrombie is a mirror first: it shows you the cost. Turn on Lockdown (Scrombie Pro) and your doomscroll apps are shielded until midnight once you hit the stage you pick: Hollow, at your budget, or Scrombie, at double.
Which apps count?
The ones you pick with Apple's Screen Time picker: single apps, whole categories, or websites. Games and streaming count too. You can change them any time in Settings.
What happens at midnight?
You're Fresh again. Yesterday goes into your history, and if it never went Hollow, your streak grows. The first time you open Scrombie in the morning, it tells you how yesterday went.
Is my selfie uploaded anywhere?
No. The photo is processed and stored on your phone. Scrombie has no servers and no accounts. It leaves the phone only inside a card you choose to share or save.
Can Scrombie see what I'm doing on my phone?
No. Apple's Screen Time framework does the counting and tells Scrombie only when today's total crosses a mark. The app never receives the names of the apps you use. The privacy policy has the details.
How exact are the minutes?
Close, not to the second. Totals update every 5 minutes (every 15 after 3 hours) and stop counting at 8 hours, so the app shows “8h+” after that.
Can I use it on my kid's phone?
No. Scrombie uses Screen Time for your own phone only, not Family Sharing's parental controls. It isn't meant for children under 13.
How much is it?
Free. Scrombie Pro is $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year, and the yearly plan starts with a one-week free trial.
When can I get it?
Soon. It's an iPhone app (iOS 17.4 or later). This page gets the App Store link the day it's live.