Your friends
are your new
off‑switch.
You don't have to spend 13.3 years of your life this way. Pantalla helps you take some of it back.
Three steps. One loving accomplice.
You pick the apps. Your friend holds the key. Future-you wants back in, and present-you had better come correct.
Pick your problem apps
Instagram. TikTok. Reddit. That one news app that exists purely to raise your blood pressure. Choose the ones eating your evenings. No judgment. OK a little judgment.
Hand the keys to a friend
Pick a gatekeeper who will absolutely say no. Your sister. Your sponsor. The roommate who's seen your browser history. They approve or deny every unlock request. In public. With feeling.
Beg, and be humbled
Want 10 minutes of TikTok? Type a reason. “I'm researching. For the group chat.” Send. Wait. Receive a thunderous no, plus a screenshot of last Tuesday's 6-hour binge. Try again next week, sport.
Not another willpower app.
Willpower apps assume you have willpower at 11:47pm. You do not. Your friend does. Your friend is a morning person and they are watching.
Every unlock is a group project.
Write a request. Wait for the verdict. Feel the specific, medicinal embarrassment of explaining to another adult why you need Instagram right now. That little sting is doing the work your willpower quit doing around age 23.
Screen time that doesn't lie
Pantalla uses your real iOS Screen Time via Apple's Family Controls. No massaged averages. No little celebratory confetti when you “improve” from 9 hours to 8.
Off-hours, on autopilot
Socials off after 9pm. Open for exactly 18 minutes at lunch. Closed all day Sunday like a small-town bakery. Your calendar has been trying to tell you this.
Shield Mode
Total lockdown. No requests. No overrides. No sweet-talking yourself out of it. Hand the keys to a friend, leave the phone in a drawer, and go have a personality. Shield stays up until your friend lifts it.
Your shame stays local
Screen Time numbers are processed on-device inside Apple's Family Controls sandbox. Your friends see only the requests you send them. Nobody else sees your 4am YouTube rabbit hole. Promise.
Good questions, rude answers
Can I just override the block when my friend isn't looking?
What if my friend approves everything?
Does it work on Android?
How much does it cost?
Is this therapy?
Give a friend the keys.
Get your evenings back.
Free to start. 2 minutes to set up. One extremely specific strain of public shame.