What is Yarn?
Meet Yarn, an AI screen time intervention app that makes you journal to unlock addictive apps. You can't break a habit you don't understand. Yarn meets you at the moment you reach for your phone to untangle the emotions at the root of your phone addiction.
Problem
Users struggle to manage phone addiction through traditional screen-time trackers or willpower, facing lack of emotional understanding behind phone usage and ineffective habit-breaking methods.
Solution
A mobile app combining AI-driven emotional journaling with screen-time intervention, where users must reflect on their emotions via AI prompts to unlock addictive apps (e.g., Instagram, TikTok).
Customers
Busy professionals, students, and digital marketers aged 18–35, who are highly tech-savvy and seek behavioral change through self-awareness.
Unique Features
Blends real-time habit interruption with AI-generated journaling prompts to address emotional triggers driving phone addiction.
User Comments
Helps identify subconscious phone use patterns
Journaling feels forced but effective long-term
Reduces mindless scrolling
AI prompts lack personalization
Overly strict app-lock mechanism
Traction
Launched in 2024, $15K MRR, 50K+ downloads, featured on ProductHunt (#1 Product of the Day), founder has 1.2K followers on X.
Market Size
Global digital wellness market is projected to reach $17.1 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research, 2023).
