Track screen time alongside your mood

Only the daily total, and that is deliberate

Meylo reads one number per day: your total screen time. Which apps you used, and for how long, stays on your phone and is never read.

That limit is a design decision, not a technical shortcut. A daily total is enough to compare heavy days with light ones in your mood history, and it avoids building a log of your app habits that nobody needs.

This integration is Android only. On iPhone and on the web, the screen will tell you it is unavailable rather than pretending to work.

Why Android asks for usage access

Screen time sits behind a special Android permission called usage access. It is not part of the normal permission prompt, so Android requires you to grant it from system settings rather than from inside the app.

Meylo opens the right settings screen for you, but the switch itself lives in Android. This is the same for every app that reports screen time.

Turning it on

Open Settings, then Data & Integrations, then Screen time. The screen walks you through the two steps in order.

Step one opens Meylo's app info. Step two opens the usage access list, where you enable Meylo. Once that is done, come back and run the Live test to confirm today's total can be read.

If you installed Meylo from an APK rather than from the Play Store, Android may block usage access until you allow restricted settings: open Meylo's app info, tap the three-dot menu, and choose Allow restricted settings. Then return to step two.

What to do with the number

Look for range, not for a target. Comparing your lightest days with your heaviest ones over a month says more than any single day, and it avoids turning a context field into a score to beat.

Screen time also correlates with other things: travel days, sick days, weekends, long commutes. If a pattern shows up, check what else those days had in common before drawing a conclusion.