See how much time you have spent in apps today, right on your Lock Screen. Without opening Settings.
Set a limit in minutes. The widget becomes a ring that fills up over the day. Full means you have reached it.
Circular as a ring, rectangular with a bar and time remaining, or a single line next to the clock.
The app has no network connection. No server, no account, no ads, no analytics.
App Minutes counts only the time you actually spend in apps and on websites. Time when the screen is merely on — the charging clock, StandBy, the Home Screen, Settings — does not count.
In our measurements on an iPhone 15 Pro that was 12 out of 65 minutes on one day, nearly a fifth of the reported screen time.
If Apple's number always felt too high to you, this is the number you actually meant.
The value is an approximation. It is built from usage thresholds that iOS confirms, grows in 5-minute steps and can lag behind by a few minutes. It is deliberately not identical to Apple's Screen Time figure.
Last updated: 19 August 2026
App Minutes collects, stores and transmits no personal data. The app has no network connection whatsoever — there simply is no code in it that could send anything anywhere.
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App Minutes uses Apple's Family Controls and DeviceActivity frameworks to learn when you pass certain usage durations. The only things processed are:
These are kept in a protected area on your device (an App Group) so the widget can read them. They never leave your iPhone. App Minutes does not learn which apps you use, and therefore cannot store that either.
Nothing is transmitted to us or to third parties. No analytics, tracking or advertising libraries are used. There is no user account and no registration.
All data lives solely in the app's storage area. Deleting App Minutes removes it. You can revoke the Screen Time authorisation at any time under Settings › Screen Time.
Since we collect no personal data, we hold no data about you that a GDPR request for access, correction or deletion could relate to. For questions, reach us at office@gsk-it.de.
Questions, bugs or requests? Write to office@gsk-it.de. We normally reply within a few working days.
There is no confirmed value for today yet. Right after setup and in the first minutes of a new day, that is normal. Check under the gear icon in the app whether measuring is running.
iOS decides how often a Lock Screen widget may refresh and limits this to a few times per day. Opening the app refreshes the widget immediately.
That is intended — see above. App Minutes counts only time in apps, not every minute the screen is on.
If measuring is restarted in the middle of the day, iOS can only backfill part of the usage that already accumulated. From the next day the value is correct again.