HalalScreen is an iOS app that locks addictive apps behind dhikr. When you open a blocked app, a Shield View appears where you count 33 SubhanAllah with haptic feedback. Complete your dhikr, then scroll.

What is HalalScreen trying to help with?

HalalScreen helps people build more halal screen time by putting a short dhikr gate before the apps that usually lead to distraction. The goal is to pause, remember Allah, and unlock with intention.

How does the dhikr gate work?

When you tap a locked app, the Shield View appears before the app opens. Complete 33 SubhanAllah, then the app unlocks.

Yes. HalalScreen is free with no ads and no tracking. Your dhikr data stays on your device. No account required.

How is HalalScreen different from other Islamic apps?

HalalScreen is an active gate, not a passive reminder. The dhikr happens before the feed appears, not after distraction has already started.

What is the 33 SubhanAllah count based on?

The 33-33-34 tasbih after salah is prescribed by the Prophet (PBUH) and recorded in Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari. HalalScreen uses this same Sunnah count as the default dhikr gate.

Lock Instagram

Lock Instagram
Behind Dhikr

33 SubhanAllah. Then Instagram unlocks.
30 seconds of remembrance before every scroll.

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Time impact

minutes per day on Instagram

That's 323 hours a year of scrolling.

What if every Instagram session started with remembrance of Allah?

323h

yearly Instagram time

646

sessions a year

dhikr to change it

How to Lock Instagram

اختر

Add Instagram to HalalScreen

Download HalalScreen, pick Instagram as a locked app. It takes 10 seconds to set up.

اذكر

Open It. Do Your Dhikr.

Open Instagram and the Shield View appears. Count 33 SubhanAllah with haptic feedback. The Sunnah count, prescribed after every salah.

افتح

Instagram Unlocks

Complete your dhikr, earn access. 30 seconds of remembrance, then scroll. Every Instagram session starts with worship.

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Why Gate Instagram

Instagram operates on comparison. The feed shows you curated versions of other people's lives, filtered and framed to look effortless. You do not open Instagram to feel worse about yourself, but the architecture of the platform makes that outcome likely. Stories expire in 24 hours, creating urgency to check before they disappear. Reels mimic TikTok's infinite scroll. The Explore page surfaces content you never asked for but cannot resist tapping. At 53 minutes a day, Instagram accounts for over 320 hours a year. Those hours are not evenly distributed. They cluster in the moments between tasks, the moments after salah, the moments before sleep. The same moments most suited for dhikr. Gating Instagram behind 33 SubhanAllah does not block those moments. It fills them. The reflex to open Instagram still fires. But now it triggers remembrance first.

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