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 YouTube

Lock YouTube
Behind Dhikr

33 SubhanAllah. Then YouTube unlocks.
30 seconds of remembrance before every watch.

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Time impact

minutes per day on YouTube

That's 450 hours a year of watching.

What if every YouTube session started with remembrance of Allah?

450h

yearly YouTube time

900

sessions a year

dhikr to change it

How to Lock YouTube

اختر

Add YouTube to HalalScreen

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

اذكر

Open It. Do Your Dhikr.

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

افتح

YouTube Unlocks

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

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Why Gate YouTube

YouTube is the most ambiguous distraction. Some of what you watch is genuinely valuable: lectures, tutorials, Islamic content. Some of it is autoplay pulling you from a three-minute video into a two-hour rabbit hole. The recommendation sidebar is designed to keep sessions going. You open YouTube for one video and close it an hour later, having watched seven you never intended to see. At 74 minutes per day, YouTube consumes 450 hours a year. The challenge is not blocking YouTube entirely. It is interrupting the transition from intentional use to passive consumption. The dhikr gate sits at that transition point. Every time you open YouTube, 33 SubhanAllah creates a moment of awareness. If you intended to watch something specific, 30 seconds changes nothing about your plan. If you were opening it out of boredom, 30 seconds is enough to notice.

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