Sumi vs Reclaim

The most beautiful thing an app can do is get out of your way. Sumi sits quietly on cream paper, holds your attention for an hour, and asks for nothing back. Set a length. Put your phone face down. Pick it up before the time is done and the session breaks — not as a punishment, but as a commitment kept. No ads. No notifications. No streaks-as-slot-machines. No weekly subscription trap. Just deep work, and the quiet record of the hours you've given it. — THE RITUAL — Set an intention and a length. Put the phone down. Sumi keeps watch: lift it, or leave the app, and the session ends. When the time is held, the line completes, your lifetime hours grow, and the session is logged. Silent while you work. Quietly rewarding when you finish. — A CALM LEDGER, NOT A GAME — The number that only goes up: your lifetime hours focused. A streak, if you want one. A week that fills, a line that climbs. No characters to feed, no points, no dark patterns. Progress you can feel, with nothing engineered to hook you. — MADE FOR DEEP-WORK PEOPLE — For writers, developers, designers, students of a craft — anyone who already romanticizes focus and resents apps built to fracture it. Graphite and cream. Monospace. Paper grain. A single calligraphic mark. — PAY ONCE — Your focus shouldn't be a recurring charge. Sumi is free to use, with an optional one-time Lifetime unlock (or a subscription, if you prefer) for custom lengths, full history and trends, themes, and session intentions. Put the phone down. Pick the work up. ——— Privacy Policy: https://dayonefoundry.com/sumi/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://dayonefoundry.com/sumi/terms

Reclaim puts a soft pause between you and the apps that quietly take your time. Pick the apps you want to slow down — Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, anything. The next time you open one, Reclaim steps in with a calm screen and asks you to take a breath, watch a moment pass, or type a code. Most of the time, that's all it takes to remember you didn't really want to be there. No blocking. No streaks. No shame. Just a tiny moment of friction, by design. How it works 1. Connect to Screen Time (Apple's Family Controls — your data stays on your device). 2. Pick the apps you want to soften. 3. Choose how each one pauses you. 4. Open the app like you normally would. Reclaim takes it from there. Pause types Free • Minimalist — a slow inhale, a slow exhale, then you're in. Reclaim Plus • 4-7-8 breathing — inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8. The classic calming cycle. • Boxed breathing — 4 · 4 · 4 · 4. Used by people who need to think clearly under pressure. • Month so far — watch the days of this month tick by while you breathe. • Year so far — see where you actually are in the year. • Days until — a countdown to a date that matters to you. • Passcode — a random 10-character code you have to type, exactly. Maximum friction, for the apps you keep losing hours to. You can give every app its own pause. The calm one for messages. The passcode for the doomscroll. Private by design Reclaim uses Apple's Family Controls framework. The list of apps you've chosen is stored locally on your device. We don't have a server, we don't have an account system, and we couldn't see your data even if we wanted to. Requires iOS 16 or later. Screen Time access (granted on first launch).