Ritual vs PaperDue

You opened Instagram for "just a second." Twenty minutes later, you don't even remember what you came for. Screen Time tells you about the scroll the next morning. Ritual stops it before it starts. Ritual is a focus app for people tired of fighting their phone. Set a ritual — a deliberate window where the apps that pull you away simply don't open. No willpower required. No shame after the fact. Just a clean intention, and the time to live it. — WHY RITUAL — The system Screen Time gives you the stats. Ritual gives you the actual block. • "Ignore Limit for 15 Minutes" is a one-tap escape on the system blocker. There is no such button in Ritual. • System limits drop after a phone restart. Ritual holds. • Sealed sessions add a 60-second breath exit. Ritual is designed so the moment of impulse can pass before the lock can. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — • Block any app. TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit, mail, games, news. Pick freely from the system app list. • Schedule windows. "9–5 weekdays, no social. After 9 pm, no work." Set it once, the schedule runs forever. • Manual ritual. One tap, lock for 30 / 60 / 90 minutes — or any duration you set. • Seal the ritual. Opt into a 60-second breath exit. The ritual doesn't fail when you flinch. • See your patterns. Which apps cost the most hours, which days you held the line, which hour your willpower breaks. • Streaks that aren't a game. Your longest lock, your weekly trend, the month that turned the corner. Private. For you. • Home Screen widget. Today's lock at a glance — countdown when locked, your next ritual when idle. • Live Activity. The lock lives on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while it's running. • Apple Watch. The countdown on your wrist, in case the phone is the thing you're trying not to look at. • iCloud sync. Schedules, history, and progress follow you to every device on your Apple ID. — THE 14-DAY FREE TRIAL — A focus app should never ambush you with a charge. You get 14 days, fully free. Your card is charged on day 14, never before. Cancel any time from Settings, one tap. We even put the cancellation link inside the app. — RITUAL PRO — Annual with a 14-day free trial, or one-time Lifetime. Both unlock everything: unlimited rituals, sealed sessions, full history, week and month insights, and every future Pro feature. Lifetime is for people who already know — yours across every iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch on your iCloud. — WHAT RITUAL IS NOT — • Not a guilt trip. The shame mirror trick stops working in three days. • Not a streak game. Your streak is private; you're not playing it for an audience. • Not a productivity hack. Productivity is a side effect of presence, not the point. — PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS — Ritual uses Apple's Family Controls framework to enforce your blocks. Everything runs on-device. We do not see which apps you block, when you lock, or how long you stay. There are no ads, no data sold, no profiles built. Read the privacy policy — it's two pages, written in plain English. — A RITUAL YOU CAN KEEP — Most blockers feel like a fight. Ritual feels like a decision you already made — to stop arguing with your phone twenty times a day, and get back the part of your life that used to belong to you. Block apps. Reclaim hours. Begin the ritual.

PAPERDUE — NEVER MISS A SUBMISSION DEADLINE Your next breakthrough paper deserves a shot. Don't let it miss the deadline. PaperDue is the essential deadline tracker built for AI researchers, PhD students, and academics who live and breathe conference submissions. Track CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, ECCV, and hundreds more — all in one beautiful, distraction-free app. ———————————————————— WHY RESEARCHERS CHOOSE PAPERDUE ———————————————————— Conference season is brutal. You're juggling abstract deadlines, full-paper windows, rebuttal periods, and camera-ready dates — across dozens of venues simultaneously. Missing a deadline doesn't just mean disappointment; it means waiting another year. PaperDue keeps every critical date front and center, so you can focus on the science. —————— FEATURES —————— - LIVE COUNTDOWN TRACKER — Browse hundreds of AI, CV, NLP, and ML conferences sorted by urgency. Real-time day countdowns, second-precise timers for your followed venues. - SMART NOTIFICATIONS — Custom reminder alerts at 14, 7, 3 days or the day of — configured independently for abstract and full-paper deadlines. - CORE & CCF RANKINGS — Every conference tagged with its CORE (A*, A, B, C) and CCF (A, B, C) ranking. Filter instantly to surface only the venues that match your impact target. - DYNAMIC ISLAND COUNTDOWN — When a deadline enters the final 24 hours, a live ticker activates in the Dynamic Island. The most urgent alert on your phone. - HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS — Glance at your next deadline without opening the app. Multiple sizes with live countdown bars. - TIMELINE & CALENDAR — Visualize your full submission roadmap in a scrollable timeline or monthly calendar, with one-tap export to Apple Calendar. - MULTI-TIMEZONE SUPPORT — Local time, UTC, AoE, or any fixed offset. Essential for international submissions. ———————————— DESIGNED FOR FOCUS ———————————— No clutter. No social feed. No noise. The dark navy interface keeps your eyes comfortable during late-night writing sessions. —————————————— YOUR COMPETITIVE EDGE —————————————— The researchers who get accepted aren't always the ones with the best ideas — they're the ones who submitted on time, without the last-minute panic. Download free. Upgrade when you're ready.