The screen-time app whose job is to get your kid off the screen
Your child is a truck driver. A warm, gravelly dispatcher radios in a real job — push the laundry basket down the hall, carry the blocks to the couch, stomp the floor flat — and the screen goes dark while they do it. For ages 2–5.
A complete daily play arc, free forever. $4.99 once unlocks the full fleet and every future drop - never a subscription.
Follow the buildHow a mission works
The dispatcher calls
"Boulders on the mountain road — that you?" A real job, told in toddler fiction. No reading required anywhere; pre-readers drive the whole app solo.
The screen goes dark
The truck drives off the edge of the screen and the display dims like a radio in a work glove. Your kid is the vehicle, moving around your living room.
The truck rolls home
Job done, the dispatcher celebrates and the fleet grows. Every mission ends in success — the Done button always works, and there is no fail state anywhere.
Jobs from the mission board
Sessions arc from big-energy jobs through steady work into calm finishes — ramp them up, then land them soft. A pre-bed mode runs calm-only.
Bulldozer Clear
Pushes against the wall like a dozer clearing rubble
Dragster Launch
Crouch-and-launch jumps at the starting line
Tow Truck Rescue
Tug-of-war rescue pulls with a towel
Snowplow Run
Pushes a loaded laundry basket down the hall
Seatbelt Squeeze
A self-hug squeeze and one long, slow breath
Air Brakes
Slow train breaths at bedtime, with a breath coach
Built for the hours that need it
⏰ The witching hour, handled
Made for the 4–7pm meltdown window, rainy apartment days, and the pre-bed wind-down — the moments you most need ten minutes of directed, physical, screen-light play. Hand them the phone; they end up moving furniture, not watching it.
🌙 A bedtime the app enforces on itself
After your quiet hour the world is asleep — starlit stage, dozing trucks, calm jobs only. No lockouts and no tantrum screens; the energetic stuff simply isn't reachable.
🔒 100% offline, 100% private
No ads, no analytics, nothing recorded or stored from the mic or camera. Planes, basements, grandma's house — same app everywhere.
🚪 An exit that respects you
A dim two-tap garage button parks any mission mid-job — "I'll hold this job at the garage" — so ending screen time isn't a negotiation. First open goes straight to a job; no account, no setup quiz.
Where the build stands
Truck Dispatch is in active development by the same one-parent team behind Talk & Listen, Create & Play and Sleepy Train. It is not on the App Store yet, and we won't promise a date we might miss.
Want to shape it, or hear when it ships? Follow the build — feedback from parents genuinely changes what gets made.