# Circuit: Screen Time Control — App Blocker, Focus Study Timer

> App Blocker, Focus Study Timer (iPhone/iPad app by Vasily Lukin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/circuit-screen-time-control/id6774522959 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vasily Lukin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1754552443)
- Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 41 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Canadian French, German (Germany) and 23 more
- Released: 2026-06-29
- Data updated: 2026-09-29
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/circuit-screen-time-control/id6774522959/reviews.md

## What is Circuit?

Your phone is built to keep you scrolling. Circuit is built to stop it.

Trip the breaker and the apps you can't put down stop opening. No negotiation, no notification to swipe away — the app just doesn't come up until your time is done.

THE BREAKER
Hold the dial and your apps close: 15 minutes, 30, an hour and a half, or a whole quiet day. Start it in the app, from Control Center, or by asking Siri. A Live Activity keeps the timer on your Lock Screen the whole time.

SCHEDULES
Name a set of apps and give it hours. Study on weekday evenings. Sleep from 22:30 to 07:00. Work nine to five. Schedules run themselves, so being disciplined stops being something you have to remember.

FRICTION, NOT WILLPOWER
Reach for a blocked app and there's a breath to take, a countdown to sit through, or a sentence to type before anything opens. Usually the urge is gone before the timer is.

STRICT MODE
For the sessions that matter: no early exit, no five more minutes. You set it, and that's that.

DAILY LIMITS
Give one app a budget — thirty minutes of Instagram a day. When it's spent, it's spent until tomorrow.

ALWAYS ALLOWED
Some apps are never blocked, whatever else is running. Maps, your bank, whoever you'd need at 2am.

SOUND TO WORK TO
Rain, a fire, waves, brown noise, or a slow wordless pulse. One at a time, playing under whatever else you're listening to, and it keeps going with the screen off.

HONEST NUMBERS
Time blocked each day, your streak, this week against last, eight milestones to reach, and a report every Sunday. Your real Screen Time usage sits alongside it, drawn by Apple itself.

PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
No account. Circuit blocks through Apple's Screen Time, which means it cannot see which apps you picked — only draw their icons. Your choices, schedules and stats stay on your phone. What leaves it is an anonymous count of which screens get opened — one switch in Settings stops it — and a crash report if Circuit falls over.

Circuit Pro unlocks unlimited schedules, blocks up to 24 hours, Strict Mode, daily limits and a month of stats. Free includes one schedule, the breaker up to 30 minutes, and a week of stats.

Circuit Pro is $59.99/year with a 7-day free trial, $12.99/month, or $4.99/week. One subscription covers your Family Sharing group. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel it in App Store settings.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://circuitapp.app/legal#privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CircuitAI Pro | $7.99 | per month |
| CircuitAI Advanced | $15.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2 — 2026-09-28

Circuit now speaks your language: the app and its App Store page are available in 35 languages.

New: your daily Score. Sleep, Focus and Rest, each built from a few plain lines — when you last scrolled, your first pickup, time in distracting apps — with an ⓘ on every one explaining how it's counted.

New: Autofocus. A gentle nudge when you've spent a while in distracting apps, measured against a daily goal you set.

New: a Never Allowed list for apps you want blocked all the time, and a reorganised Apps tab around it.

Milestones are now Roman coins, each one telling you what it was and what it would have bought.

Fixed: schedules now count only the time they actually blocked.

### 2.1.2 — 2026-09-22

Fixed: restarting your iPhone could quietly lift a block. If Circuit wakes before the phone has been unlocked it cannot read its own settings yet, and it used to read that as "nothing is blocked". It now leaves your shields exactly where they are until it can see them properly.

Also fixed: the Blocking row on the home screen now responds anywhere along the row, not only on the words.

New: if you have a streak going and nothing has been blocked by evening, Circuit says so once. One notification, and Settings turns it off.

### 2.1.1 — 2026-09-20

Fixes the Privacy Policy link in Settings and on the subscription screen.

### 2.1 — 2026-09-19

Fixed the app description on our App Store page.

### 2.0 — 2026-09-15

Circuit is a screen time blocker now. The AI assistant is gone, and in its place: the breaker, schedules, friction, daily limits, ambient sound and honest stats. Same app, new job.

Everything runs on Apple's Screen Time, on your device. No account, no server, nothing to sign up for.

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