Yutora
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Yutora

There are things you never saw
because you were scrolling

The time you spend on yourself, kept in numbers and photos.
You don't have to quit social media — just turn the aimless scrolling into time of your own.
Not the “good” that scrolls past you, but the day you thought was good.

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iPhone · iOS 17 or later · free to start

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What you get

Track your own time

Every minute you start adds up to today.

See what changes

Today, this week, this month — not whether it dropped, but how it changed.

Keep the day in a photo

The one photo you wanted to keep, and a few words, saved to that day.

The time you spent stays
What you watched does not

The day is over before you notice. You can't recall what you did last week.
It isn't only the time your thumb was moving. The hours you drifted along with the feed disappear the same way.
What you lose may be less the time itself than the days you could have remembered.

What it is

Not just time.
Not just photos.

Social media lives inside a daily budget. Not banned, not endured — redirected.
And a photo from the time you actually gave your attention to builds up as a record.

See your social media time and your own time at a glance. Go over budget, and you're gently pointed back to your own time.
The time you gave your attention to is quietly recorded behind the photo.
Not stopping — moving. The urge to open an app becomes the doorway into time you chose.
Yutora home screen: the time you spent on yourself, and today's page
Keep a day together

Photos are shared
memories are personal

Invite the people who were there into a day on your calendar.
Each of you brings your own nine photos, so one day is kept from as many points of view as there are people.

They see the photos you brought and the words you added — nothing else.
Your note for the day, your favourites and the time you recorded stay yours.

No notifications. No badges. No “new.”
It’s simply there the next time you open it.

Shared photos travel through Apple’s iCloud. The developer cannot see them
How it works

How time you chose becomes something you keep

01

You feel the urge to open it

At that moment, Yutora offers you your own time instead. Start even one minute, and you're back in time you chose.

02

Only as much as you decided

Social media lives inside a daily budget. While you're recording, it's quietly blocked. You set the limit.

03

The days stay

The photo you wanted to keep goes into that day's journal. Your week, your month, your year take shape.

Your passbook

Time and memory build up
in the same place

The daily record and the photo from that day. Numbers and memories sit in the same journal, so the time you spent on yourself becomes something you can feel. Look back by day, week, month or year, and you start to see how you've changed.

The photo calendar shows at a glance which days you remember.
Weekly and monthly reports show how your own time is changing.
Photo calendar — the journal of your life
Weekly report and achievements
What changed

What is happening
to the people using it

Not how many hours of social media they cut.

The day feels longerthan it used to.

The way I use my time changed, and I have enough room — in my schedule and in my head — to actually remember what happened each day. The bigger thing isn't that my social media time went down; it's that the life after it changed.

— A long-term user
It makes you want totreasure your own time.

What I like most is being able to measure my own time. I noticed where my time was going, and it made me want to make better use of the day. Because it only trims the aimless scrolling, it never feels restrictive — which makes it easy to recommend.

— A long-term user
Seeing “this much was for me today”is what I like.

I tried a Pomodoro timer before and it never stuck. This one does, because I can see the time I spent on myself adding up. It keeps the time and the photos together, so I think it suits people who like taking pictures too.

— A long-term user

Published with permission. Condensed and edited for readability, and translated from Japanese. Individual experiences vary.

Results differ from person to person. Try it in your own days first.

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iPhone · iOS 17 or later · free to start

June diary
Yutora
One month, one frame

Each day is for you.
Each month becomes one keepsake.

Every photo you kept that month becomes a single collage. A record of studying, the books you finished, the thing you were making, time with someone who matters — how you spend the month is up to you. The title is in your own words, too.

Editing the collage title is available with a subscription. Photos stay on your device, and sharing is always your choice.

Where your time goes

How many days a year is that?

Enter your daily social media time.
See what it adds up to over a week, a month, a year.

hours
In a year, that is 30 full days
A week: 14 hours
A month: about 60 hours
A year: about 730 hours = a full 30 days

This app is for deciding, yourself, where that time goes.

Not just blocking

It doesn't end
at blocking

The usual blocking app

Stop it. Wall it off.

  • ×It only locks the app; where the time went is never recorded
  • ×The moment your willpower runs out, you're back where you started
  • ×You get a record of what you quit, not a record of what you lived
Yutora

Move it. Keep it.

  • ✓The urge to open an app becomes the doorway into time you chose
  • ✓The time you chose to spend builds up as photos and records
  • ✓It becomes a journal of your life, one you can look back on
Why I made this

A year went by in an instant

I wanted to work, and kept finding myself scrolling instead. I hated that I couldn't focus. So I built something for myself: a way to start my own time before opening social media.

What I realised later was that it wasn't only work time I'd been losing. The year I spent with less aimless scrolling was astonishingly full. The years before it, I think I was just drifting. Between the time I kept watching without purpose and now, when I choose where my time goes, the number of days I actually remember is completely different.

I added the photo feature because I wanted to keep those remembered days. I won't tell you that you have to quit. If you don't want to, that's fine. But if you'd rather give your time to what you think is good, instead of what happens to scroll past — I'd like to help with that.

— From the one developer who made Yutora

Today stays.

Turn only the aimless scrolling into time you chose.
What you do with that time stays, as photos and records.

Free to start. Photos, your own time, and keeping a day together. iPhone · iOS 17 or later · Available in English and Japanese.
Cancel any time — your records are never deleted.

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How is this different from a normal app blocker?

It doesn't end at locking apps. Social media lives inside a daily budget, the time you spend on yourself is measured, and the day itself is kept in a photo. What remains isn't a record of what you quit — it's a record of what you lived.

Does it block social media completely?

No. You decide how much time you get each day. Only when you go past it are you gently pointed back to your own time. It isn't here to stop you posting, messaging or working. And it doesn't care whether you're on a screen or off it — the night you watched a film to the end, the day you finished a book: if you chose to give it your attention, that is your time.

Where are my photos and records stored?

On your device and in your own iCloud, and nowhere else. Nothing is sent to the developer's servers. Exporting and sharing are always your choice.

Can I keep videos?

Photos only — there is no video recording. What stays is a single still image. A photo takes one press of the shutter; a video means holding your phone up for as long as it runs. What this app wants to add to your day isn't time spent holding a screen — it's time spent looking at something with your own eyes. And once pictures start moving inside a grid, that grid is a feed.

How much can I do for free?

Photos, notes, recording your own time, monthly collages and keeping a day together all work without a subscription. Blocking starts with the one app you spend the most time in. Premium adds protection across several apps at once and looking back over any period. The yearly plan includes 14 days free. If you cancel, the records and photos you already have are not deleted.