Guides

1. Evenglade starts with a short walkthrough. Tap Begin when you're ready.
2. First, a few reasons to look up from your phone. Evenglade brings one up now and then.
3. Choose your look. You can change it later.
4. Choose the few apps for your home screen. The rest wait under Everything else.
5. Choose a daily aim, if you'd like one.
6. Then choose who'll hold your key. Someone you trust can choose the PIN instead: that path has its own guide.
7. Holding it yourself, you choose a PIN. Type it, tap Set PIN, then type it once more.
8. What's set aside rests out of sight. Bring any of them back in Your apps.
9. You're all set. Tap Go home.

Change any of these whenever you like, in Settings.

1. Your apps shows where each app lives. Open it from Everything else, or from Settings.
2. It has four places: Home screen, Everything else, Unlisted and Set aside. Unlisted apps still open from notifications and links.
3. Tap an app to move it. Moving an app further away never needs your key.
4. To move several at once, choose where they'll go, then check them.
5. Tap Set it aside to put an app out of sight. Bringing it back will ask for your key.
6. The app is set aside, and its notifications are cleared. It rests under Set aside until you bring it back.

Every app has a place, and you choose it.

1. Press and hold an app on your home screen. Its menu lets you move it, or open App info.
2. App info opens Android's own page for the app.
3. It works the same in Everything else.
4. Tap Move to your home screen, and the app is close at hand.
5. Changed your mind? Press and hold to move it back.
6. Set it aside puts an app out of sight, and its notifications are cleared. Bringing it back will ask for your key.

Press and hold any app to choose where it lives.

1. Open Settings and scroll to Your time. To open Settings, press and hold an empty part of the home screen.
2. A daily aim is for your whole day's screen time. It never stops anything. Past it, apps open after a short pause.
3. Aims for each app work the same way, one app at a time.
4. Choose what shows on your home screen: today's screen time and unlocks at the top, time and opens beside each app.
5. Your home screen shows them, small and quiet.
6. Past an aim, opening an app starts with a pause. Here, Messages is at 31m of its 30m aim.
7. A slow countdown, and a reminder of what you're making time for. Take a breath, or tap Don't open.
8. Then Open. The choice is yours.

Aims never keep an app closed. They give you a moment to choose.

1. To change your look, open Settings: press and hold an empty part of the home screen.
2. Under Your look, tap the look you have now.
3. Swipe through the looks. Each shows your own home screen.
4. Tap one to choose it. Settings and the wallpaper change with it.

Change your look whenever you like.

1. In the walkthrough, at Your key, tap Someone I trust will hold it.
2. Hand them your phone. The rest of this step is for them.
3. They choose a PIN and keep it to themselves: they type it, tap Set PIN, then type it once more.
4. Next, they can set up one-time codes. With an authenticator app on their phone, they can say yes from anywhere.
5. They tap Set up one-time codes, then enter the PIN.
6. In their authenticator app, they add an account and scan the code Evenglade shows.
7. They type the 6-digit code it shows, then tap Save. One-time codes are on.
8. When they're done, they tap Next and hand your phone back.
9. Back to you. When you'd like an app back, ask them. They can read you a code from anywhere, or type the PIN when they're with you.

They can say yes from anywhere. The PIN stays with them.

1. When you'd like an app back, open Your apps. It's at the end of Everything else.
2. Under Set aside, tap the app.
3. Tap Move to Everything else, then For 30 minutes.
4. Ask the person who holds your key for a one-time code. They read it from the authenticator app on their phone.
5. Type the code they read you, then tap Continue.
6. The app is back for 30 minutes. Then it's set aside again, on the minute.
7. A note in the notification shade counts down the time.

A code works once, for one app. The PIN stays with them.

1. To take a break, open Settings and scroll to Advanced. To open Settings, press and hold an empty part of the home screen.
2. Tap Stop using Evenglade. Every app opens and notifies as usual, and your choices stay as they are.
3. It asks for your key. If someone you trust holds it, ask them for a code.
4. Tap Stop using it.
5. Your phone's own home screen is back. Evenglade rests until you open it again.
6. To start again, open Evenglade from your apps.
7. Tap Start using Evenglade again. The apps you've set aside rest again.
8. Make Evenglade your home screen once more: choose Evenglade, then Set as default.
9. Evenglade is back, just as you left it, and your set-aside apps are resting again.

Take a break whenever you need one. Evenglade waits just as you left it.