About GoodScrolling

Willpower is fake. A commitment you can't talk yourself out of is real. GoodScrolling exists because telling yourself “I'll just put the phone down” has never once worked at 2am. So instead of relying on willpower, we made scrolling past your limit cost you money — real money, sent to a real charity you actually chose.

Here's how it works: you set a daily screen time limit for the apps that eat your attention, and you pick a pledge amount that's meaningful enough to keep you honest. Go over your limit, and that amount gets donated to a nonprofit of your choosing. Stay under it, and nothing happens — which, weirdly, starts to feel like a win.

We're not trying to guilt anyone into feeling bad about their phone habits. We just think behavioral economics works better than good intentions, and that if you're going to doomscroll anyway, the least it can do is fund clean water, medical care, or conservation work instead of padding an ad platform's revenue.

100% of your pledge goes to the charity you picked, disbursed through getchange.io. On a $5 pledge you are charged $5.77: $5.00 donation, $0.15 getchange.io disbursement, $0.15 GoodScrolling service, and $0.47 Stripe. The service fee is what keeps the lights on.