Earn your scroll.
Social apps cost minutes. You earn minutes with verified good habits, a person you trust holds the key, and your circle keeps you honest.
Kinwyn is not in the stores yet. Android comes first.
Example wallet
Your scroll wallet
Earned today
43 min
15 min spent
Steps
Counted by your phone
Camera reps
Push-ups counted on the phone
Journal
100 words, kept on your phone
A wallet of minutes, not a timer you ignore
Screen-time limits are easy to tap away. Kinwyn turns scrolling into something you pay for with effort.
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Pick the apps that eat your time
Opening one spends minutes from your wallet, one minute at a time.
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Earn minutes with real habits
Every goal is checked by the phone itself. Nothing runs on the honor system.
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Zero balance means locked
When the wallet is empty, the app stays shut until you earn more. Earned minutes expire after 48 hours, so you cannot hoard them.
Eight ways to earn
These are the starting rates. You can change a rate. Each goal has a fixed daily cap.
- 1,000 steps5 min
- One push-up or squat, counted by the camera1 min
- 25 minutes with the phone down10 min
- 10 minutes in an app you chose as good for you10 min
- A night with the phone untouched20 min
- A phone-free first hour after your alarm15 min
- A 100-word journal entry10 min
- Staying away from every pin you dropped20 min
What makes Kinwyn different
Six ideas you will not find in a screen-time limit.
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Stay-away pins
Drop up to five pins on places you want to avoid. Stay away from all of them for the day and you earn minutes for it.
Your places never leave your phone.
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Borrow with interest
Out of minutes? Borrow up to 10 a day. You pay back 15 from your goals by the end of the next day, and your apps stay locked until you do.
Miss the deadline and your streak breaks.
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Night pricing
Scrolling costs more when it hurts most. Inside your night window a minute of scrolling costs up to three minutes from your wallet.
The window starts as midnight to 6 am.
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A key holder and a 7-day cool-down
Making your rules harder is instant. Making them easier waits seven days, unless the person you trust says yes. They can approve from a link, with no app.
You can always change key holder. That takes 7 days too.
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One plan for the whole family
A circle holds up to five people, family or friends. One paid plan covers everyone in it, parents included. Parents hold the key for their kids.
A shared goal, a weekly ranking and nudges.
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Promise rewards
Someone in your circle can promise you a real reward, in their own words, for reaching a goal. Kinwyn tracks the goal and marks the promise kept.
The reward is between the two of you.
Private where it counts
Your circle and your key holder see minutes and streaks. Nothing else.
- Journal text stays on your phone.
- Pin locations stay on your phone. Only “avoided today: yes or no” counts.
- Camera frames and audio are never stored or uploaded.
- Nobody sees which apps you block or open.
- Kids’ journals are private, even from parents.
- No analytics events are recorded for child profiles.
Never blocked
Some things are not yours to lock, and Kinwyn will not offer them.
- Phone calls
- Messages
- Emergency apps
- Maps and navigation
- Banking and payment apps you mark as essential
- Settings, and Kinwyn itself
Plans
Prices vary by country and are shown in the store. New users start with a one-month free trial of Circle, then move to Free unless they subscribe.
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To start
Free
- 1 blocked app
- 1 goal
- 1 good app
- 1 key holder
- Circle and invites
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For one person
Solo
- Unlimited apps and goals
- Night pricing
- Borrowing
- Promises
- Share templates
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Up to 5 people
Circle
- Everything in Solo, for the whole circle
- Family mode
- Parent dashboard
- One person pays, everyone is covered
Your scroll, earned.
Have an invite link or a key-holder link? Open it again. It works from this site.