Mind Moment vs Focus

Mind Moment helps you create a conscious pause before opening distracting apps, sites, and categories. Set a focused access window for 15 or 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours, using system Screen Time controls. During that window, chosen apps stay available for intentional use. When time ends, access closes automatically. To unlock those apps again, you complete a short awareness action instead of tapping on autopilot. Type a custom phrase, say it out loud, or listen to it mindfully. This brief mindful step strengthens willpower and reconnects you with your real intention before you jump back into social media, messaging, or browsing. The goal is not punishment or harsh restriction. Mind Moment adds a small but powerful layer of awareness between impulse and action. You keep full control while gently reducing digital distraction and automatic phone usage. Core Features: - Choose distracting apps, categories, and websites to manage - Start access timers from 15 minutes to 24 hours - Use Screen Time and FamilyControls integration on iOS - Lock distracting apps when the timer expires - Require a mindful phrase action before reopening - Support spoken and audio awareness practices - Encourage conscious, intentional screen time Use Mind Moment to protect your attention, build healthier habits, and create more present, focused moments in your day without rigid digital rules.

Focus is the app blocker that keeps your word for you. Pick a task, set a duration, and hold to commit. From that second, your chosen apps are locked behind a shield — and there is no snooze, no "remind me in 15 minutes", no way around it. The only way out is through. WHY FOCUS WORKS WHEN WILLPOWER DOESN'T Every distracting app is built by teams whose whole job is to keep you scrolling. Focus levels the field: once you commit, the decision is out of your hands. Open a blocked app and the shield answers with your own words — "I committed to finish my thesis until 21:30." Not a system warning. Your promise, held up to you. STRICT SESSIONS • Choose a task, a duration, and hold to start — a deliberate gesture, not an accidental tap • Blocked apps stay blocked until time is up; the session cannot be cancelled • A live countdown on your Lock Screen keeps the goal in sight • One Emergency Pass per session: unlock a single app for five minutes, then the wall returns FOCUS ON A SCHEDULE • Recurring focus windows for work, study, or sleep — your mornings block themselves • Real alarms that ring from a locked phone, so a schedule is a commitment, not a suggestion • Each rule runs on Apple's Screen Time system, enforced by iOS itself SEE THE PAYOFF • Watch your screen time fall week by week, right next to your focus hours • Per-app insight: what an app cost you before Focus, and what it costs now • Streaks and lifetime stats that never judge, only count TIMER & ALARMS • A clean standalone timer with proper, full-volume alarms • Pick a classic ring or search a song you love as your alarm sound PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account required. Blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time framework, and your activity never leaves your iPhone. We couldn't read it even if we wanted to, because iOS doesn't allow anyone to. The only thing we keep is anonymous usage statistics, never your content. WHO IT'S FOR Students who lose evenings to their phone. Writers, developers, and makers guarding deep work. Anyone who has deleted an app on Sunday and reinstalled it on Monday. Your time is the only thing you truly spend. Focus makes sure it goes where you promised. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · Privacy Policy: https://itsfocusapp.github.io/focus-legal/privacy.html