See your digital life clearly, what it's giving you, what it's costing you, and your kids' too.
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Social media is engineered for engagement. AI is accelerating dependency. Yet we have almost no useful way to understand what our digital behaviour is telling us about our attention, relationships and wellbeing, or whether any of it is making our lives better or worse.
of your waking life is now spent on a screen. You rarely know what that time was actually made of.
of adults sleep worse because of bedtime screen use, rising to 46% in under-25s. None of us are immune.
higher risk of depression in adolescents for each extra hour spent on social media each day.
Digital behaviour is a powerful, largely untapped signal of human wellbeing. Your devices already capture the patterns. ThirdLife turns them into insight that helps you, and your family, live better.
Not a screen-time counter, but a read on what that time is actually doing for you.
Your whole day distilled into one honest score, with the four rings beneath it, Connect, Balance, Focus and Rest. Tap any ring to see exactly what it measures. Not how long you were on your phone, but what that time was actually doing for you.
See it below ↓The why behind every score. Today's read and the month's in plain language, plus trends for every ring that you can page back through, week by week, as far as Screen Time keeps. Findings graded by how much they matter, with named apps and real minutes.
See it below ↓Everything else looks at your phone on its own. This looks at your phone next to the rest of your life: your sleep, your body and your calendar. On the nights you were on your phone late, did you sleep less? How much of each workout was the phone actually in? On your busiest days, did your attention hold? Connect Apple Health and your calendar and the comparisons begin.
See it below ↓The same app on your child's phone, with the full picture rather than a watered-down version. You set the limits, the sleep window and school hours, locked with your passcode. Then you look at it together.
See it below ↓Change is hard to see day to day, so ThirdLife marks it. Your practice, your recent form, your streaks and how this week is going, noted in small, honest milestones. Encouragement and badges when things go well, never a game you have to win.
Seeing is half of it. Limit a single app or a whole category like social media, with daily totals and before-sleep limits that either stop you at the line or send a gentle nudge, as hard or as soft as you want them. ThirdLife also suggests limits for the apps that are constantly heavy.
Connect, Balance, Focus and Rest, each scored out of 100 and rolled into a single daily score, with a plain-language read on what led the day. The scale is named in the app: Thriving, Strong, Balanced, Finding balance, Needs care. The scoring is designed rather than guessed, and we are working with researchers to test how well it holds.
Insights holds the reads and the charts together. Today's read and the month's in plain language, beside the trends that explain them, for the overall score and for every ring. Specific, not vague: named apps, real minutes, actual days.
Every screen time app can tell you how long you were on your phone. None of them can tell you what it cost. ThirdLife reads your phone beside your actual sleep, your workouts and steps, and the time you commit in your calendar, and finds what moves together.
You set ThirdLife up on your child's phone, the same app you use yourself, with the full picture rather than a watered-down version. You set the limits and the sleep and school hours, and lock them with a passcode. Then you look at it together.
Nothing comes back to your phone, because nothing should. This is a conversation you have with them, not a report you read about them.
Their screen, not a remote view. Settings are locked with your passcode; everything else is theirs to see.
Setup takes a minute. It starts with the same screen-time signals your phone already collects, and anything deeper is unlocked only with your explicit consent. Adding a child's device works the same way, with their awareness.
Everything runs on the device. None of your screen-time data or insights ever leave the phone.
Set up a child's phone and they see everything you see. The app is visible, they know it is there, and only the settings are locked. There is no hidden view and nothing is sent anywhere.
The four dimensions are drawn from the wellbeing literature, and the scoring is designed rather than guessed. We are working with researchers to test how well it holds, and we would rather say that plainly than overstate it.
A tool designed to be needed less over time. The opposite of the apps it helps you understand.
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Building this with you. If there's something you'd love ThirdLife to help you understand, for yourself or your family, tell us at info@thirdlifeapp.com.