I was doomscrolling about three hours a day. Not "checking my phone a lot" — three hours, measured, on a screen time report I didn't want to look at.
So I did what developers do: I went looking for a tool. What I found was a category with two flavors, and neither one was built for me.
Flavor 1: parental control wearing a productivity costume
Most "app blocker" apps assume a supervisor and a supervised. A parent installs it. Someone else holds the password. Someone else gets the report.
The reviews tell the story better than I can. This is a real 1-star review of one of the biggest apps in the category (58k+ ratings, 4.3★):
