Screen time is a wallet you own,
not a debt you're owed.

The home card shows her screen-time wallet: what she owns and can spend, led by today.

Still earned − used, but shown as "yours to spend," with today's earned and used underneath so the cycle reads as a flow, not a score.

Screen time is a stock you own, not a debt you're owed. Leading with "today" stops a saved-up balance from looking like it only ever grows, the exact "keeps building" feeling that surfaced in testing.

The wallet detail: what's available, a one-tap way to use it, and the week's earn / use cycle.

She taps Use some and draws down her own wallet. No caregiver hand-over step for screen time.

Nobody hands over minutes. She just uses the device. Making the caregiver "give" each time added load and caused the drift that overpaid the balance (tapping "give" against a stale number).

The use action: pick an amount (or all), confirm, wallet ticks down.

Honor system. No iOS Screen Time lock, no countdown, no app-blocking. Just a self-reported draw-down.

Commercial "earn screen time" apps enforce at the device level. This app deliberately doesn't: "caregiver = support, not surveillance." In the self-managed mode, autonomy is the point. The honor system is a feature, named as trust, not a missing lock.

The caregiver defines how tasks convert to minutes, holds the shared agreement, and watches the rhythm.

They configure earn rates and the deal once. There is no per-use "give" button for screen time.

Making the caregiver hand over each minute was conceptually wrong, added decision-load (against the "minimize caregiver load" principle), and is where the ledger drifted. Support, not surveillance.

The honest earn ↔ use cycle over the week, with the current wallet as the running difference.

Each day shows earned and used. The wallet number is just what's left over.

Makes using visible (the direct antidote to "it keeps building") and reframes screen time as a living rhythm instead of a one-way tally that only grows.

A soft session timer. Pick a countdown (a budget for this sitting) or count up (an open session).

It runs while she uses her time; the companion offers one gentle, dismissible nudge; at zero it eases off. It never locks or alarms. Actual elapsed time is what draws down.

Time-blindness is core to ADHD, so an external time cue is real help. It also makes "use" honest instead of a guess. Gentle, self-controlled, with a count-up option: sensory canon plus autonomy, and no countdown-anxiety.

An after-the-fact view of the week's earn/use rhythm and recent sessions, plus a warm note channel.

Aggregate and recent, not a live "using it now" feed. The in-the-moment nudge lives on their phone; the caregiver's reach-out is async and warm.

Rhythm-level awareness is support; a live feed is surveillance. Subject-controlled sharing keeps it consented, and the granularity thins as they graduate.

A shared session: the person declares the amount, a single visible clock runs for both of them.

The app holds the clock and nudges the caregiver at the end. Nobody keeps it in their head, and there's still no lock.

When self-tracking isn't reliable yet, mental tracking fails: a "two hours" that was really four. A reliable shared clock fixes exactly that, gently. (A device auto-lock stays an optional harder stop for families who want one.)

Earning is always daily. Spending opens on a window the caregiver picks: daily, weekends, or custom, plus an optional per-day cap.

The wallet keeps filling all week; the draw-down only opens on the chosen days. The cap limits any single day.

Some families want a daily cash-in, some want a weekend one. Both are valid. The cap stops a saved-up week from becoming one long binge, and the immediate reward marker still fires at task time, so motivation stays intact.