ScreenGuard
Open-source screen time tracker, app blocker and digital wellbeing app for Linux — GNOME Wayland & X11, local-first.
Wayland & X11
Daily app limits
Focus mode
Local-only data
GPL-3.0
- Screen time tracking — live and historical per-app usage, with week-by-week history
- Daily app limits — set a budget per app; when it runs out, the app is locked for the day
- Focus mode — Pomodoro-style sessions where the apps you choose are blocked
- Native GNOME Wayland — via the bundled ScreenGuard Shell extension
- All X11 desktops — GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, LXQt, i3 and more
- Private by default — no account, no cloud sync, no telemetry; data stays on your machine
Install: APT repository, .deb / .rpm, standalone tarball, AUR, openSUSE OBS, Nix — v1.1.2, full instructions in the README.