GoodBully

The screen-time app that talks back.

Are you completely incapable of controlling yourself and constantly looking at your phone? Maybe you need someone to bully you out of it!

Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play
The GoodBully mascot, looking down at the ice cream he just dropped

This again?

Twice as expensive, long wait, cold food.

Not now

Let me in anyway

GoodBully confronts you when you waste your own time, and redirects you toward productive activities.

Challenges that end.

Other apps do streaks. Our streaks are complemented by specific challenges. We all know that setting concrete goals with a deadline is more effective. Keep your goals and beat your challenges to unlock new bullies.

1 day
Keep the day for a Common.
3 days
Keep 2 for a Common, 3 for a Rare.
1 week
Keep 4 for a Common, 6 for a Rare.
30 days
Keep 16 for a Rare, 28 for a Legendary.

Raise a limit mid-challenge and it starts over. Lower one and it doesn’t.

The end of a 7-day challenge in GoodBully: A clean week, 7 of 7 kept, past the marks for a Common at 4 and a Rare at 6, and a Blue capsule.

Build your collection.

Pass a challenge and the gumball machine drops a capsule: Silver, Blue or Gold, depending on how many days you kept. Inside is a bully. Each one has a name, and most have an opinion.

Once you have three, they take over your widget and your celebrations. Star your favorites to choose which.

MockBully, a Legendary bully, out of a Gold capsule from the gumball machine: I wish you could see yourself right now.

  • FriendBully

    He’s actually waving at someone behind you.

  • SleepyBully

    Doing nothing sure is tiring!

  • SmugBully

    He’s better than you, or at least he thinks so.

  • SardonicBully

    “You’re right, keeping your goals is way too hard.”

  • ThoughtBully

    “What AM I here for?”

  • PushBully

    …nine-hundred ninety eight, nine-hundred ninety nine…

  • CollectorBully

    One man’s trash…

  • WhiteRabbitBully

    Tick tock

  • DanceBully

    His moves are… unconventional.

  • 16 more.

    You’ll meet them.

More of this. Less of that.

There are good things you could be doing with your phone: reading, learning a language, exercising, gaining a skill. You just aren’t doing those things. GoodBully helps you stay on task by redirecting your guilty pleasure time toward goal time.

GoodBully’s Today card at 4:12 PM: 20 min left of 2 h. Goals on top: Language 9 of 15 minutes, Moving done. Guilty pleasures below: Social 4 min left, Video 24 of 60, Gaming 0 of 60. Other 41 min. Doesn’t count, 58 min left out.
Goals on top, guilty pleasures below.
A GoodBully insight: Your reading goal was 15 minutes a day. You met it six times over a day, on average, this past week. That’s at least 1 h 32 min a day. Raise it.
Selling yourself short? GoodBully helps you to right-size goals based on your actual performance.

Blocking > Nagging

You say what you struggle with
Scrolling social media, bingeing videos, gaming, shopping, ordering takeout. Pick the apps that belong to each, and leave out the ones you need for work. GoodBully suggests them for you.
You set a daily budget
Mindless scrolling feels innocent but it builds habits that take multiple years of your life away from you. GoodBully helps you to understand the impact of your decisions and to plan accordingly.
Stronger deterrents
GoodBully stops you before entering bad apps and checks in periodically to break the cycle early. We push harder than the competition. A little notification isn’t enough to pull you away from the most addictive software ever created. You know it and so do we.
Save your ego (or your time)
Time is your most valuable asset and it’s being siphoned away from you by nefarious companies intentionally. If bible quotes and zen meditation were enough to combat that, we wouldn’t be here.
The mascot waving
Gentle
The mascot looking smug
Blunt
The mascot yelling through a megaphone
Brutal
There’s a way out
“Let me in anyway” lifts the shield for 15 minutes, an hour, or the rest of the day. GoodBully keeps count, and the count shows up in what it says next.
Your streak, with opinions
The widget counts your days inside your limit, and the bully on it has something to say about the number. GoodBully’s Home Screen widget for mobile games: 47 days. Okay. You win. All seven of the last seven days kept, and the bully beside it dancing.

Free to start. Pro when you want it strict.

GoodBully

Free

  • A daily screen-time budget, with a limit for each guilty pleasure
  • Shields on the apps you pick, in a voice from Gentle to Brutal
  • Goals, counted every day
  • Challenges and the bully collection
  • Insights and time back
  • Doesn’t count, for the apps that shouldn’t
  • A streak widget for your Home Screen
  • The last two weeks of history

GoodBully Pro

$39.99 a year

or $9.99 a month. 7-day free trial on the yearly plan.

  • Goals firstGuilty pleasures stay shielded until today’s goals are done. The shield names the one that’s next.
  • Strict shieldsNo way past once the limit is used.
  • Focus sessionsShield everything you’re avoiding for a set time, with no way past until it ends.
  • Full history
  • SchedulesBedtime or work hours, with rules of their own.
  • No deleting appsOptional: during a block, apps can’t be deleted to get around it.

Pro is billed by the App Store or Google Play, wherever you subscribed, and renews automatically until you cancel in that store’s subscription settings. See refunds and cancellation.

Your apps and minutes stay on your phone.

Which apps you limit and how long you spend in them are stored on your phone and are not sent to us.

Privacy policy Support

Out now on the App Store and Google Play.

Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play

Questions? support@good-bully.com