Timeouts is Strava for time off your phone. Start a timeout, leave the device alone, post a photo of what you're doing instead. Your crew sees it, your streak holds, and the leaderboard tells the truth. It's not a blocker, not a shame loop — it's a gym for the muscle most of us have let atrophy.
Start a session when you put the phone down. Going for a run, reading a book, eating dinner with a human. The timer tracks how long you're actually gone.
Snap a photo of what you were doing instead — the trail, the page, the plate, the crew. Timestamp it. It's your receipt. BeReal for healthy habits.
Your crew sees your time, your proofs, and where you sit on the weekly leaderboard. You cheer each other on. You get annoyed when someone beats you. That's the whole point.
Every solo phone-less app has tried the same trick: lock you out, shame you into compliance, make a tree wither when you fail. None of it works, because none of it is how people actually change behavior.
Gyms work because people show up for other people. Timeouts works the same way. You join a crew. You post your proofs. They post theirs. You learn from each other. Nobody quits alone.
The coach watches your usage patterns — which apps pull you in, when you relapse, which days are strong. It teaches you one habit at a time. Not generic "take a break" nudges — real, specific, behavior-change advice based on what your week actually looked like. Like a PT who knows your lifts.
"You scroll Instagram for 18 minutes every weekday at 10pm. That's your spiral hour."
"This week, start a timeout at 9:55pm and read 10 pages. Post the book as proof."
"You hit it 4/7 days. The crew saw the books. Next week we extend to 20 pages."
Touch Grass is the open-source brutalist design system behind Timeouts. Zero rounded corners. Zero grey text. Zero animation. Geist Mono everywhere it counts. Every component you see in the app — leaderboards, proofs, timers, session summaries — is in the repo. MIT licensed. Help yourself.