HEY Email vs Focus by ConciergePad

It’s “you’ll never go back” better HEY replaces workarounds, messy hacks, and daily frustrations, with built-in workflows, effortless organization, and clever features that levels-up email in meaningful ways. Screen emails like you screen calls You screen your calls, so why can't you screen your emails? With HEY, you can. HEY puts you in complete control of who's allowed to email you. Don't want to hear from someone? Screen them out and won’t hear from them again. Naturally grouped Inboxes are typically an intertwined mess of new and old messages haphazardly mixed together. Yuck. With HEY, new messages are always grouped together at the top, and previously seen emails are always at the bottom. Neat and orderly by default. No need to wade through the inbox jungle with a machete. Spread ’em out, read ’em together Let's say you have 7 unread emails. Why do you have to open one, close one, open one, close one, open one, close one, and so on. It's rediculously inefficient. With HEY, you can open multiple emails at once and just scroll though them, just like you would a newsfeed. It's a revolutionary way to read your emails. You'll never go back to the old way. Find files without pulling your hair out If you’re looking for an attachment, why should you have to find an email first? That’s backwards. With HEY, you get an attachment library that gathers up every attachment you’ve ever received in one organized, siftable place. Just set it aside Sometimes you get emails you need to reference later - travel info, handy links, numbers you need, etc. With HEY, you can 'Set Aside' any email in a neat little pile for easy access whenever you need it. At hand, but out of your face. Put receipts in The Paper Trail Receipts, confirmations, and transactional emails getting in your way? With HEY, you can send those types of emails to The Paper Trail where they'll be out of your way, but easy to find when you need them. Blocking email spies 24/7/365 Many companies track which emails you open, how often you open them, and even where you were when you opened them. It's a massive invasion of your privacy. HEY blocks these trackers and tells you who's spying on you. Fix bad subjects without busting threads If you don’t start the thread, you're often stuck with other people’s generic, non-descriptive email subjects. With HEY, you can rename a subject so it makes sense for you without changing things for the other person. Add private notes to any email thread Conversations may start in email, but they may continue somewhere else. Some emails turn into lunches or calls or video conferences. Where do you put the notes from those - especially if they relate to the initial email conversation? With HEY, you can add personal, private notes (and files) to any thread. This way you keep everything related to the conversation on one page, even if it didn't all happen via email. Notifications you control HEY push notifications are off by default so your phone doesn’t steal your attention every time an inconsequential email hits your inbox. However, HEY lets you selectively turn them on for specific contacts or threads so you don't miss the things you really care about. A built-in ‘Reply Later’ workflow What if you need to reply, but you don't have time right now? With HEY, just click the “Reply Later” button to move an email to a dedicated ‘Reply Later’ pile at the bottom of the screen so you don’t lose or forget it. Stop heavy senders from dominating your inbox When you get lots of emails from someone, they can take over your Inbox. With HEY, you can choose to bundle a sender into a single row. This means no matter how many emails they send you, they'll only take up a single row in your Inbox. Clean, controlled, and calm. Get off threads without having to ask Stuck on a mega email chain and want off? Good luck asking someone to remove you. With HEY, you can unfollow any thread and replies won’t show up as new emails anymore. Out of your face forever.

Focus helps your family stick to the focus schedule you've agreed on together. During those times, distracting apps simply take a break on the student's iPhone, so homework, reading, dinner, or a good night's sleep get the attention they deserve. Everything else about the phone keeps working. Phone calls and Messages always stay available, so you can reach each other any time, and emergency features are never affected. Focus is built on Screen Time technology by Apple. That means no workarounds and no third-party tricks: iOS itself lets apps take a break during focus time, and iOS asks for permission before anything starts. On a student's device that's part of Family Sharing, a parent approves that permission, which is the setup we recommend. If your family doesn't use Family Sharing, Focus asks for standard Screen Time permission instead. Setting up takes a few minutes. Sign in with your ConciergePad family account to link the device to your family's focus schedule, approve Screen Time when iOS asks, then choose the apps that should always stay available. Anything you put on that list, from a calculator to a music app to a ride-share app, keeps working during focus time. Everything else takes a break. You can change the always-available list whenever you like from the Focus home screen. The schedule itself is something your family sets together in your ConciergePad account, and it can be as simple as weekday mornings or as specific as a different window for each day. The Focus home screen always shows what's happening in plain language: "Focus time is on until 3:00 PM," "Next focus time: tomorrow at 8:00 AM," or "Ready to go" while you're waiting for the first schedule to arrive. A Sync Now button pulls the latest settings on demand, and Focus keeps working with the last schedule it saw even when the device is offline. Life doesn't always follow a schedule, and Focus is designed for that. If a student opens an app that's taking a break, the screen explains that it's focus time, reminds them that calls and Messages always work, and offers a button to ask for an early unlock. That request goes straight to the family's ConciergePad account. A parent can pause the whole schedule at any time, for a doctor's appointment, a snow day, or simply because you've decided to. The device picks the pause up on its next sync, or right away when the student taps to ask for an unlock, and focus time resumes automatically when the parent turns it back on. Focus stays honest about its own status. If Screen Time permission is switched off or a session expires, the home screen says so and shows exactly what to do next, and the family account is notified so nobody is left guessing. If your family's plan includes a place-based schedule, Focus uses region monitoring only, never continuous location tracking, and it never touches location at all unless your plan asks for it. Focus requires a ConciergePad family account and an iPhone running iOS 16 or later. Screen Time features need a physical device signed in with an Apple Account. Managed together with your family. Phone calls and Messages always stay available.