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AI · June 5, 2025

iOS Screen Time from a REST API

We're Oliver and Royce and we're the founders of Clearspace. We build tools to help people reduce their screen time (here’s us two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35888644) We get all kinds of requests from users for ways they'd like to use their screen time data. - “Auto-donate $x to charity every time I exceed a limit or try to bypass it” - “My 75 Hard group has a screen time requirement, can we set up group visibility?” - “Let my personal agent know if it’s a good time to tackle things on my todo list” - “Auto-report large deviations in my screen time to my…

iOS Screen Time from a REST API launched on June 5, 2025 with 106 votes, #404 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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In plain words

iOS Screen Time from a REST API provides developers access to Apple Screen Time data through a web-based API, a capability not previously available from Apple. Created by Clearspace founders Oliver and Royce, it allows third-party developers to build custom tools that use screen time data, such as charitable donation triggers, group accountability features, task scheduling integrations, and health reporting systems. The API opens screen time information to external applications for the first time.

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From the sources

Screen Time Network. Powered by Clearspace.

In the maker’s words, at launch

We're Oliver and Royce and we're the founders of Clearspace. We build tools to help people reduce their screen time (here’s us two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35888644) We get all kinds of requests from users for ways they'd like to use their screen time data. - “Auto-donate $x to…

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