Focus Tower vs Nowbox

Most focus timers hand you a number at the end of the week. This one hands you a city. Set the timer and put the phone down. Every finished session lays another floor on your tower. Put a roof on it and the whole tower moves into a city you build — where it stands for good and pays you rent every day. BUILT ON THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE Work in one focused block, rest, repeat. Twenty-five minutes on, a short break, a longer one after four — the rhythm people have used since the 1980s, except here each block leaves a floor behind. BUILT FOR ATTENTION THAT WANDERS Starting is the hard part, so the app makes starting small: one block, 25 minutes, a reward you can see at the end of it. The shield takes the temptation off the table instead of asking you to out-argue it, and a session survives a locked screen — so a wobble costs you nothing. If you have ADHD, that is usually the combination that finally sticks. Focus comes from the rhythm, not from willpower. BLOCK WHAT PULLS YOU AWAY — FREE, ALWAYS • Shut selected apps for the length of a session, using Apple's own Screen Time • Keeps working with the screen locked and outside the app • No limit on how many, no paywall on blocking — ever THE TIMER • Pomodoro presets (10 / 25 / 45 min) or any length you like • Automatic cycles: focus → break → focus, a long break after four • Name the session — every floor remembers what you built it for • Lock your screen and the session keeps running. Nothing is lost. • Your floor rises on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island WHAT YOU KEEP • 6 towers to unlock, each with its own world and music • 6 lands to settle, 12 plots to a city • Finished towers pay daily rent in coins • 32 achievements, from your first floor to a city on every land • Daily streaks with streak protection • Towers, cities and history sync through your own iCloud PROOF YOU DID THE WORK • Export every session as a CSV spreadsheet — date, task, minutes, coins • Or as a printable PDF table, with your totals across the top • Export your city as a picture and show someone what a month of focus looks like • Your tower and streak on a home screen widget, your session on the Lock Screen Useful for a thesis log, for billable hours, or simply for proving to yourself that the week happened. FAIR AND PRIVATE • Free. One-time purchases only — no subscription • No ads. No accounts. No trackers. • We collect nothing. Your sessions stay on your device and in your iCloud. Put the phone down. Build something.

A to-do list never tells you when. Nowbox builds your day out of time blocks, then — while you work — shows you one block at a time. ■ Dump it, and the day builds itself Thirty seconds in the morning is the whole ritual. No dragging blocks onto a grid. Set an estimate and a priority; Nowbox fits everything into your working hours and adds the breaks and buffers for you. ■ It learns from your own record (Pro) Nobody focuses on the same schedule. Nowbox learns which half-hours you actually finish things in, and puts your important work there. That learning runs on the device — nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to. ■ While you work, exactly one thing When a block starts, the list disappears. One task, one countdown, nothing else. The Lock Screen widget repeats the same sentence; with Pro, so do the Dynamic Island and the Live Activity. ■ Five seconds at the end Done or not, how focused, how hard. Three taps. With Pro, that record changes tomorrow's plan. ■ An honest day Work that does not fit is not quietly squeezed in. It is listed as "didn't fit today", with the minutes it needs. And on a day you don't keep to the plan, the app doesn't scold you. ■ Completely offline No account. No server. No network requests. No ads, no analytics. What you write stays on your iPhone. ■ Nowbox Pro (one purchase, forever) Not a subscription. Unlimited blocks, the learning auto-plan, full history and the focus heatmap, Live Activity, and every widget. The free app still gives you five blocks a day, the execution screen, reviews, basic stats and a Lock Screen widget — and exporting your own data is always free.