ScreenGuard is a digital wellbeing application for Linux that combines application usage tracking, daily limits and focused work sessions.
It supports GNOME Wayland through a GNOME Shell extension and offers an X11 backend undergoing community testing. Other Wayland desktops are not currently supported.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Usage dashboard with daily screen time, weekly charts, application breakdowns and 30-day totals and averages.
- Browse previous weeks and select individual days to examine application usage.
- Set daily application limits using presets or custom durations, with warnings before limits are reached.
- Minimise applications when their allowance expires, with options to extend usage or adjust the limit.
- Pomodoro sessions with configurable focus and break durations, multiple cycles, pause and resume, and completed-session counts.
- Select distracting applications to minimise during focus sessions, with an optional strict mode that closes them.
- Set a daily screen-time goal and receive progress and overtime alerts.
- Track Steam and Proton game usage and apply daily limits and focus-mode restrictions.
- Customise themes, notifications and sounds, including custom audio files.
- Store usage history locally and delete records by date, date range or in full without removing settings.
- Optional anonymous diagnostics, enabled by default, report crashes and active-install information. These can be disabled in settings.
Website: github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard
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Developer: Aditya Krishnan
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
ScreenGuard is written in Dart. Learn Dart with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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