Awayling
Focus timer with a pet, for iPhone and Android. Updated 30 October 2026.
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Awayling is a focus timer with a pet that grows on the time you spend away from your phone. You pick 15, 25, 45 or 60 minutes, start a session and lock the phone. When the timer ends the session counts, and up to three finished sessions a day help your pet grow. On Android it also reads your daily screen time, with your permission, and compares it with a goal you pick. It is free to use. One optional purchase, Awayling Keeper, costs US$14.99 once. Your pets and history stay on your phone and there is no account. Awayling is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android.
At a glance
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 15.1 and newer. Android, Android 7.0 and newer.
- Price
- Free. Optional Awayling Keeper, US$14.99 once (the App Store and Google Play show your country's price). No subscription
- Account
- None
- Ads
- None
- Screen time
- Android: daily screen time against a goal you pick, read through Usage access. iPhone: no Screen Time data, progress comes from focus sessions
- Home-screen widget
- Android only. iPhone has none yet
- Where pets and history are kept
- On the phone
- App languages
- English
- Maker
- Scrolling Is Evil LLC
- Bundle ID and Android package
- com.scrollingisevil.awayling (the same on iPhone and Android)
- App Store name
- Awayling: Focus Timer Pet
- Google Play name
- Awayling: Screen Time Tracker
How a session works
Pick 15, 25, 45 or 60 minutes, start the session and lock your phone. Come back when the timer ends and the session counts. Your first three finished sessions each day help your pets grow and lift their mood, and a session of any length counts the same. On iPhone, if you leave the app without locking the phone, the session ends, and Awayling can tell the phone locked only if it has a passcode. On Android, locking the phone keeps the session and opening another app ends it.
Awayling does not lock or block other apps on iPhone or Android. On iPhone it does not read Screen Time data and counts the sessions you start in the app.
Screen time and the widget on Android
On Android, Awayling asks for Usage access in Android Settings. With it, the app reads which apps were in the foreground and when, and turns that into daily screen minutes on the phone. Home-screen apps, System UI and Awayling are left out, and time with the screen off is not counted. Only the daily minutes are saved. App names are not saved and not sent anywhere. You pick a daily goal, and a day at or under it is a good day. Until you grant Usage access, a finished focus session makes the day good.
The Android home-screen widget shows your pet and today's screen time against your goal, and refreshes about every 30 minutes, even when the app is closed. The Paper style is free. Ink and Bare come with Awayling Keeper. iPhone has no widget yet.
Pets, good days and habitats
A pet hatches from an egg, then grows to young and then grown. Each pet comes in four colors, picked when it hatches or changed later. Growth only goes up. The pet cannot die and never gets sick.
On iPhone, a day with a finished session is a good day. On Android, a day at or under your screen time goal is a good day. Good days add up and never reset, so there is no streak to lose. On iPhone a day without a session changes nothing. On Android a day over your goal lowers your pet's mood, one good day starts the recovery, and growth never goes down. Habitats open as good days add up: Sunlit Meadow from the start, Mossy Forest at 3 good days and Coral Cove at 7.
The Commons
Every pet you raise lives in the Commons and keeps growing, and up to five stand on the Home tab. A new egg comes at 10, 30, 60 and 100 good days, then every 50, and you pick who hatches. The Commons gains a pond, a tree, a bench and a lantern at 30, 100, 200 and 300 good days. Your pets write you short letters at 10, 30, 60 and 100 good days, then every 25. About a minute after you open the Commons, touch it or scroll it, the scene settles into a still picture, and with Reduce Motion on it stays still.
Sharing
The Week tab shows each day. You can share a weekly card with the pet in front, your finished sessions and an invite link. The card goes only where you send it through the share sheet. A friend's card carries a six-character code, which you can enter in Settings under A friend's card. The code only records whose card you came from, on your phone, and nobody gets a reward.
Free features and Awayling Keeper
These are free: the Ember species, the Commons, every egg and letter, all four colors, three habitats, 14 days of history, focus sessions, growth and sharing. On Android the Paper widget style is also free.
Awayling Keeper is one optional purchase of US$14.99, paid once. The App Store and Google Play show the price for your country. It adds Dewy and the Keeper species added later, two more habitats (Aurora Tundra and Starfall Glade) and your full history, and on Android the Ink and Bare widget styles. It is not a subscription, and your pet's health and growth are never for sale. Keeper species hatch from your next egg, like every pet.
Reminder
A note at 8pm is available in Settings. It is a local notification on your phone and stays off until you turn it on.
Where your pets are kept
Pets, history and settings are stored on your phone. There is no account. When it opens, the app asks RevenueCat whether you own Awayling Keeper, under an anonymous ID that is not tied to your name or email, and your pets are not sent. There are no ads, analytics or advertising ID. On Android, the first launch reads the Play Store install referrer to see whether you came from an invite link, and only the invite code is kept. There is no sync between devices and no data export, and if your phone backs up apps to iCloud or Google, that backup can include your pets. Read the full privacy policy.
Questions
Is there a focus timer app with a pet for iPhone and Android?
Awayling is a focus timer for iPhone and Android with a pet that grows on the time you spend away from your phone. You pick 15, 25, 45 or 60 minutes, start a session and lock the phone. Up to three finished sessions a day help your pet grow.
Is there an Awayling app for Android, and does it track screen time?
Yes. Awayling is on Google Play for Android 7.0 and later, as well as on the App Store for iPhone. On Android, with your permission through Usage access, it reads your daily screen time and compares it with a goal you pick, and a day at or under the goal is a good day. Focus sessions, pets, the Commons and Awayling Keeper are the same on both, and Android has a home-screen widget.
How does Awayling know I stayed off my phone?
You start a session and lock the phone, and the session counts when the timer ends. On iPhone, if you leave Awayling without locking the phone, the session ends. Awayling can tell an iPhone locked only if it has a passcode, and on iPhone it cannot see which other apps you open. On Android, locking the phone keeps the session and opening another app ends it.
Does Awayling block apps or read Screen Time data?
Awayling does not lock or block other apps on iPhone or Android. On iPhone it does not read Screen Time data and counts the focus sessions you start in the app. On Android it reads daily screen time through Usage access, only after you grant that in Android Settings, and it saves the daily minutes and no app names.
How much does Awayling cost?
Awayling is free to download and use. One optional purchase, Awayling Keeper, costs US$14.99 once. The App Store and Google Play show the price for your country.
Is there a subscription?
No. Awayling Keeper is a single purchase and nothing renews. Your pet's health and growth are never for sale.
What does Awayling Keeper add?
Keeper adds Dewy and the Keeper species added later, two more habitats (Aurora Tundra and Starfall Glade) and your full history. On Android it also adds the Ink and Bare widget styles. The Ember species, the Commons, every egg and letter, all four colors, three habitats, 14 days of history, focus sessions, growth and sharing stay free, and so does the Paper widget style on Android.
Can my Awayling pet die, and are there streaks?
No to both. Growth only goes up, the pet cannot die and it never gets sick. Good days add up and never reset, so there is no streak to lose. On iPhone a day without a session changes nothing. On Android a day over your screen time goal lowers your pet's mood, one good day starts the recovery, and growth never goes down.
What is the Commons in Awayling?
The Commons is the tab where every pet you raise lives and keeps growing. A new egg comes at 10, 30, 60 and 100 good days, then every 50, and you pick who hatches. The Commons adds a pond, a tree, a bench and a lantern at 30, 100, 200 and 300 good days, and your pets write you short letters at set counts.
Does Awayling need an account?
No. There is no account or sign-in. The app checks the Keeper purchase with RevenueCat when it opens, under an anonymous ID that is not tied to your name or email.
Does Awayling work offline?
Yes. Focus sessions, pets and history work with no connection. The app goes online to check the Keeper purchase. On Android, the Redeem a code option contacts a Scrolling Is Evil server only when you use it.
Does Awayling back up or sync between devices?
There is no sync between devices and no data export. Pets and history stay on the phone, and if your phone backs up apps to iCloud or Google, that backup can include them. Restore purchase brings Keeper back on a new phone signed in to the same Apple Account or Google account.
Which phones and languages does Awayling support?
Awayling runs on iPhone with iOS 15.1 or newer and on Android 7.0 or newer, and the app is in English. The home-screen widget is on Android only, and iPhone has no widget yet.
Get the app
Awayling on the App Store (iPhone). Awayling on Google Play (Android). Help: support page or support@scrollingisevil.com.