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Add Digital Wellbeing category (screen time / focus apps) - #9

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The list has no category for screen-time / digital-wellbeing apps, which is now one of the most active categories on the App Store. The closest existing home is Productivity, but these apps are not task managers — they work by removing capability rather than adding it, so they read oddly mixed in there.

This PR adds a Digital Wellbeing section with 7 entries, alphabetical, and adds it to the table of contents in the right place.

Notes on the choices:

  • The first entry is Apple Screen Time, which is free, built in, and genuinely enough for a lot of people. It felt wrong to open a category of paid third-party apps without saying that first.
  • The rest are the apps that actually differ in mechanism rather than in branding: a pause before opening (one sec), friction/intention prompts (ScreenZen), timed hard blocks (Opal), schedules and stats (Jomo), and the gamified original (Forest).
  • All App Store IDs were verified through the iTunes lookup API rather than by loading the page — Apple returns HTTP 200 for unknown slugs by redirecting to a generic page, so a 200 alone does not prove a link is right.
  • All 8 links return 200.

Disclosure: I'm the developer of SproutGuard, one of the seven entries, and I've disclosed that inline in the list as well. I added it because the category has a real split between parental-monitoring tools and self-imposed limits for adults and nothing here covered the latter — but if you'd rather not include a self-submitted app, please strike that one line and merge the other six. The category is the point of the PR; my entry isn't.

Format follows contributing.md: [Name](link) - Description., capitalised, full stop, no leading "A"/"An".

shantj added 4 commits July 28, 2026 22:17
The /us/ form forces the US storefront into the iOS deep link Apple
returns; the neutral /app/id form resolves against the reader's own
storefront. Verified against Apple's 301 under en-GB/IE/NZ/US/AU.
apps.apple.com/us/... forces the US storefront into the iOS deep link
Apple returns, so a non-US reader can be sent to a store where the app
is unavailable. The /app/idNNN form resolves against the reader's own
storefront. Verified against Apple's 301 under en-GB/IE/NZ/US/AU.
Scoped to the entries added by this PR only.
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