LimeTime: Screen Time Bank

Screen time your kids earn — and a bank that actually enforces it.

LimeTime turns screen time into a currency. Kids earn minutes by doing chores, keeping daily routines and reaching milestones, then spend those minutes on the apps you choose. When the balance runs out, the apps lock again. No arguing, no nagging — the rules are the same for everyone, and everyone can see them.

It is a parental control app built around earning rather than punishing.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Set up your family bank and add each child.

2. Create contracts — chores, homework, reading — and what each one pays.

3. Your child does the work, you approve it, the minutes land in their balance.

4. They start a timer to spend minutes, and the blocked apps unlock while it runs.

5. Time is up, the apps lock again.

REAL APP BLOCKING

• Choose which apps stay locked on your child's device

• On Android, LimeTime covers a blocked app whenever no timer is running (needs usage access and display-over-other-apps, granted once in Settings)

• On iPhone and iPad, blocking runs on Apple's own Screen Time system

• Parent mode is never blocked, so you can always manage the device

EARN, SAVE, SPEND

• Contracts — chores and habits that pay in minutes

• Daily promise — a short checklist that has to be ticked and approved before apps unlock, with a bonus when you sign it off

• Milestones — longer goals with a bigger reward

• The grove — a tree that grows with every visit and drops golden limes for bonus time

• Requests — your child asks for extra time, you approve or decline from your own phone

SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT

• A full statement of every minute earned and every minute spent, by source

• Children get a 30-day balance trace; parents get earned against spent, broken down by where it came from

• Week and month charts, and family standings

POCKET MONEY MODE

Set what an hour is worth and every amount switches from minutes to money — balances, rewards, statements, charts, requests. Tap the coin to switch back. Balances are always stored as time, so changing the rate never adds or removes a second. Free for every family, on every plan.

BUILT FOR FAMILIES

• Several children, each with their own avatar, colour and passcode

• Parent controls behind a PIN

• A short message from you under your child's name each morning

• Works offline — the timer keeps running and syncs when you are back

• English and Simplified Chinese

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No ads. No third-party tracking. We never sell your data. You can permanently delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, at any time.

Set up your family's time bank in a few minutes, and make screen time something everyone agrees on.